[HN Gopher] ASCII Paint
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       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
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       | 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.
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       | http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html
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       | ACiD Productions is a digital art group founded in 1990. If
       | you're into ascii art you might dig their work.
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       | http://www.acid.org/
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
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       | https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip
        
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