[HN Gopher] ASCII Paint ___________________________________________________________________ ASCII Paint Author : smusamashah Score : 40 points Date : 2021-11-06 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ascii.alienmelon.com) (TXT) w3m dump (ascii.alienmelon.com) | mattwad wrote: | This is really cool! Seems like a good start. If you're looking | for suggestions, I'd like to be able to choose background and | foreground colors as well as use a larger paintbrush. Maybe the | tool could use different ascii characters for blending and | dithering? | smusamashah wrote: | Not the creator. Checkout other things made by the same person | at http://generators.alienmelon.com/ They all have 90s vibes. | Even in this ASCII paint too, apart from the blue gradient and | dos like font, there is something else too with the text style | or may be surprise element when drawing that gives old vibes. | donio wrote: | M-x artist-mode | ajsnigrutin wrote: | Yep, emacs has it all :) | pvg wrote: | some previous discussions of Nathalie Lawhead's work: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26358259 | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504983 | ChrisArchitect wrote: | (2020) | davvid wrote: | Sure, it's from 1999 (and earlier) but this immediately reminded | me of ACiD Draw. | | http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html | | ACiD Productions is a digital art group founded in 1990. If | you're into ascii art you might dig their work. | | http://www.acid.org/ | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions | | ANSI/ASCII art was the aesthetic of the pre-internet BBS era. | Text graphics was the best you could do over a slow modem link at | the time. | | Later on we even had vector graphics (anyone remember RipTerm?) | which were pretty cool (despite the slow transfer speed) because | the limited speed meant you got to watch it progressively draw. | | https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-06 23:00 UTC)