[HN Gopher] MapSCII - The Whole World in Your Console ___________________________________________________________________ MapSCII - The Whole World in Your Console Author : luke2m Score : 53 points Date : 2021-05-04 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | rpastuszak wrote: | This is awesome! I'm desperately looking for rougelike ideas that | could rely on those maps. | gregsadetsky wrote: | It's such a beautiful project. The telnet access, the supported | zoom and scroll gestures... | | I once heavily hacked the (very!) well organized and readable | code to send the vector features -- the roads -- to an Arduino | that was generating a TV signal. I actually used two Arduinos, | one showing text labels only, the other one for line features. | | MapSCII was programmed to slowly pan between two of my homes | (between Quebec City and Montreal), along the highway connecting | these cities. The pan was in real time -- 300km in about 3 hours. | I've been going back and forth between these cities for many | years. This art piece, named "Contrecoeur" (a city name along the | way, and also "against one's heart" in French) was a digital | contemplative take on this. | | A video, if anyone's curious: | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTbg49Tx7k | | @rastapasta, thanks a lot for your work! | naikrovek wrote: | two homes! is this common or am I a mere plebe with my single | home? | gregsadetsky wrote: | Parent's/"home home", and my own home in a city 3 hours away. | :-) | kderbyma wrote: | this is great. I have been looking for map alternatives to google | and apple. this is great for those times when all you have is a | shell and no Gui. very nice. will bookmark and remember this. | rpastuszak wrote: | > this is great for those times when all you have is a shell | and no Gui. | | Genuine question: like when? | bluenose69 wrote: | This is impressive, and really quite fun. | ant6n wrote: | That video zoomed in to a place 200m from my house (near C-Base, | Berlin). It felt totally natural (of course I'll zoom to my | house!) and only when it deviated slightly from my actual home | did it seem weird (wait, It's not me who zoomed to my house). | | Really like the Braille Console hacks. | nmg wrote: | Does this use a custom algorithm to map pixels to characters? It | really shines when zooming in and out. | rastapasta wrote: | Indeed it does, take a look at the BrailleBuffer[1] :) Thanks | for the kudos! | | [1] | https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/src/Braill... | rastapasta wrote: | Quick update: scaling up again atm, HN was a bit too much for the | current machines :) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-04 23:00 UTC)