Pokemonsay: Pokemon Version of Cowsay

https://github.com/dfrankland/pokemonsay

by polm23 • 7 years ago

127 47 7 years ago

I really like this module and love the idea. The images are far too big though especially compared to cowsay/cowthink.

Klathmon4• 7 years ago

This might be a bit off topic, but what are your options for putting images or "image like" drawings in the terminal now days?

This seems to just use blank spaces with terminal background color codes to draw things, which means your smallest "pixel" is the size of a terminal line.

Are there ways of getting higher definition in a terminal with fairly widespread support and keeping full color?

The hacker part of me is thinking with some combination of finding Unicode characters that "fit" an outline combined with color quantization (since every "character" has to be one color at most) might be able to cut the size in half...

lloeki• 7 years ago

Those ones use half-height blocks I think, which goes a loooong way already.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/terminal-image-cli

https://github.com/atanunq/viu

loser777• 7 years ago

Awesome, but given Nintendo's history I have to ask if this is the type of thing that provokes a cease-and-desist.

SanchoPanda• 7 years ago

Its been out for years. But dont't give them ideas, this is too good to lose.

CM302• 7 years ago

Generally they tend to mostly go after games starring their characters, and usually leave other types of fan works alone. They also don't go after all fan games either, with 99% of them being left alone and close to 100% of ROM hacks being in the same boat. It's also mostly remakes/games rather similar to remakes or official games that get targeted in most cases too.

So no, I don't think this is going to provoke a cease and desist. It's not competing with anything official, and barely even counts as a fan work at all.

rmetzler• 7 years ago

Ok, who volunteers to create an output plugin for Ansible?

rahuldottech2• 7 years ago

I find it curious how programmers are so poor at naming their projects. This could've easily been named pokésay.

That said, it's a cool project!

mosselman2• 7 years ago

The way you phrased this makes it seem like you aren't a programmer and are looking in from outside of the programming world.

On another note: a less condescending way of conveying the same message would have been "Cool project. Pokésay would have been a great name instead of Pokemonsay."

rahuldottech2• 7 years ago

I... am a programmer. And I'm terrible at naming too, usually. It was just a light-hearted comment.

wingerlang• 7 years ago

Then you’d have to either write the accent on the e (which is not user friendly) or name it “pokesay” which could me confusing (as in poking someone). I think this is a good utility name.

wolfgke2• 7 years ago

(which is not user friendly)

For the pityful group of users who use the default US keymap.

swebs2• 7 years ago

This could've easily been named pokésay

Not for users with a US keyboard

falsedan2• 7 years ago

pokAlt+(numpad)0233say

wolfgke2• 7 years ago

Not for users with a US keyboard

Install a proper keymap.

bilkow• 7 years ago

Just use English / US (International), it will make "é" become ' + e and allow lots of other combinations.

cecilpl2• 7 years ago

Well, it's one of the hardest things, along with cache invalidation.

bobwaycott• 7 years ago

Don’t forget off-by-one errors!

aquova• 7 years ago

I would recommend Miltanksay

bouvin• 7 years ago

Another variant is Ponysay: https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/

swebs2• 7 years ago

So how do you run this? I just see a bunch of javascript files.

haveyaseen2• 7 years ago

Install NodeJS and run `npx pokemonsay`

rovr138• 7 years ago

You need to have Node.js installed - https://nodejs.org

After that, then it seems like you can execute `node dist/cli.js` for it. So just pipe to that.

haveyaseen2• 7 years ago

If you want to run it from source then clone it and run `npm run start` which will run `npm run build && node ./dist/cli.js` for you (see the scripts entry in the package.json)

codetrotter• 7 years ago

While it does support a few additional options according to the README, I think this whole project could have consisted of no code at all and just cowsay template files that you’d copy to the cowsay template directory. Typically /usr/share/cows/

Here is an example of a third-party template for cowsay: https://github.com/lochsh/alpacasay/blob/master/alpaca.cow

ihuman• 7 years ago

Do cowsay templates allow you to set the color for each character?

skykooler• 7 years ago

I tested and indeed you can use ANSI escape sequences in cowsay templates.

Klathmon4• 7 years ago

Most of the code here is for scraping images from a 3rd party and converting them into colored blank spaces to display in the terminal.

The actual code used to pick a random Pokemon and display it is only a few dozen lines.

sswezey• 7 years ago

Where does the conversion from .png to tiles happen? Is it part of boxen? I can't seem to locate it within the source.

CM302• 7 years ago

Probably a bit of a silly question, but are the new Pokemon from Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon and GO/Let'a Go Pikachu/Eevee going to be added to this?

Because the former added Zeraora as well as Poipole, Naganadel, Stakataka and Blacephalon (along with new Necrozma forms), whereas the latter added Meltan and Melmetal. Would be nice to see them added for completeness sake, though it raises the question of how 'complete' these joke projects should be character wise, especially when dealing with series that introduce about 100 new characters every three or so years.

falsedan2• 7 years ago

Try building it and see which mons are included. I guess you can always publish your own version on NPM when the details for each new generation are available!

For Necrozma, its extra forms don't have pokédex entries so this tool doesn't scrape them from Bulbapedia.

danjordan• 7 years ago

I built something similar, but it uses pokefusion (https://pokemon.alexonsager.net/) to generate randomly fused Pokemon

https://github.com/danjordan/pokefusion

You can run it with `npx pokefusion`

plumeria• 7 years ago

Nice one. The combination of Flareon and Magneton looks like something from Futurama.

Edit: nitpick: have the selectors ordered alphabetically.

carc1n0gen• 7 years ago

I'm curious how close to this you could get with regular cowfiles for cowsay.

floor_• 7 years ago

Imagine installing node.js and a json parser and 10+ other things just for a cowsay clone. I can't imagine what a clean install of all this crap would be just for this project.

Klathmon4• 7 years ago

Can we not do this? It's just as valid to have this kind of little thing written in node as it is to have it written in Perl.

One person's complaint about a json parser being too heavyweight is just as valid as the complaints that the arcane one-off cow template syntax is hard to use and understand.

Not to mention that this has different features than cowsay, and it's just a fun little project. It parses image files into the terminal display, it can scrape 3rd party websites to download new Pokemon images.

JasonFruit2• 7 years ago

I think we should do this. When writing a tiny, trivial utility, it doesn't make sense to bring in a ton of dependencies. Disk space, memory usage, and download size all matter, especially to those of us who use old hardware on rural satellite connections.

Your final paragraph had a good point, though. It's not just cowsay.

kawsper• 7 years ago

Have they modified their terminal in the screenshot or how are they managing to get perfectly square "pixels" in the terminal?

pszndr• 7 years ago

It's just 2 empty space characters

phailhaus• 7 years ago

This is fantastic! It would be really great if the CLI supported summoning a specific Pokemon, is that planned at all?

Pokemonsay: Pokemon Version of Cowsay

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