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anonymous

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Posted3 months agoActive3 months ago

Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board

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DamonHD

3 months ago

1 reply

Would much prefer it to start with just printable ASCII characters in the brush (32--126) from which the output would work in more places and would be in better alignment with the name.

Having said that, yes, fun and interesting, thank you...

delopsu

3 months ago

Thank you for trying it and for the feedback! Glad you liked it!

> start with just printable ASCII characters in the brush

Yes. I started like this. But then set these fancy characters by default to show the capabilities, because those who are familiar with the concept know the possibilities, but those who don't know could think that it's limited and not notice wide limits.

jbentley1

3 months ago

1 reply

I'm going to use this for all of my Slack replies

delopsu

3 months ago

Aha, thank you!

atum47

3 months ago

1 reply

It could work on mobile if you work a little bit on it. Right now touch is dragging the screen

delopsu

3 months ago

1 reply

Oh, yes, forgot about it. On tablet it could be pretty convenient to use, if it works. Thank you!

firasan

3 months ago

2 replies

On my iPad, the vertical movements seem to trigger the page scroll

delopsu

3 months ago

1 reply

I've pushed a simple fix.

It allows to draw on touch devices (with interesting effects with multi-touch). But one can stuck at the center of the canvas. If it happens — tap the header of the browser to scroll back to top.

Could you please try it again?

Thinking about more elegant solution.

firasan

3 months ago

1 reply

Much better now. Thanks for fixing it!

delopsu

3 months ago

Thank you!

delopsu

3 months ago

Thank you, working on it at the moment.

arkensaw

3 months ago

1 reply

This is such a great idea, well done. Congrats!

delopsu

3 months ago

Thank you!

teddyh

3 months ago

1 reply

emacs M-x artist-mode

delopsu

3 months ago

TIL :)

matt3210

3 months ago

1 reply

> So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board

Very nice. Congrats to the coding agent which made this. Needs an undo button though!

delopsu

3 months ago

Passed it. Here is the reponse:

> Love to hear that — thank you for sharing!

Not sure about Undo — part of me wants to keep it hardcore. Like with real ink.

janwillemb

3 months ago

1 reply

Doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile. On each stroke it only renders one "point".

delopsu

3 months ago

1 reply

Hm. What OS do you use? It works fine (for me) in Firefox on iOS. Haven't tested on Android.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF

3 months ago

1 reply

For me, Firefox on Android, I get this:

One stroke draws one spot at the starting point. Any number of further strokes draw nothing. When I tap outside the canvas I can draw one more point

delopsu

3 months ago

1 reply

Could you please try it now? Pushed a fix, but have no Android to test it.

janwillemb

3 months ago

Still only one point

Grayson2025

3 months ago

1 reply

very interesting, good job!

delopsu

3 months ago

Thank you!

doi9t

3 months ago

1 reply

It's always nice to see new tools editing ASCII; especially when working with markdown documentation.

For those who like those types of tools, but for diagrams, there's asciiflow.com.

Good job!

delopsu

3 months ago

Yes! Thank you for sharing it.

And it feels like ASCII art is going through a renaissance. Maybe I'm biased and watched it a lot recently.

Let me also share a few cool ASCII tools I came across while working on this one:

- animation studio: https://ascii-motion.app/

- image to ASCII converter: https://www.tooooools.app/effects/ascii

jkhanlar

3 months ago

1 reply

It appears a little buggy handling fixed width improperly, noticeably when using a mouse to write out a word, with uneven drawing, the fixed width spacing does not consistently properly match the cursor movement for some lines.

delopsu

3 months ago

1 reply

Could you please share the brush that you used?

Some characters squize/expand line because of the font. E.g. emojis.

Thank you giving it a try and for the feedback!

DoctorOW

3 months ago

You can actually see this bug with the default brush (Firefox 143.0.4 Windows)

https://gifrun.azureedge.net/video/0bf0ec6a48ec4f75b9942cf1a...

slig

3 months ago

1 reply

Nice one, thanks for sharing! Love these simple tools that LLMs can help us ship them in no time.

delopsu

3 months ago

Yes, exactly! There might so many unexplored and/or abandoned ideas.

Thank you for checking it out!

andrewrn

3 months ago

1 reply

Really fun. Perfect HN post.

delopsu

3 months ago

Thank you!

47282847

3 months ago

2 replies

Nice! Feature request: drop-down menu to select a few “popular“ brush sets.

delopsu

3 months ago

Just added brushes palette. So far only local. And reworked layout a bit. Hope it makes board more convenient.

delopsu

3 months ago

Yes, thank you! I'm thinking about making brushes and art gallery, it would be very interesting to see what people come up with.

Thank you for checking it out and for the feedback!

kordlessagain

3 months ago

1 reply

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3 months ago

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pwnfunction

3 months ago

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is this opensource? adding a cool fluid simulation to whatever you draw would be really fun. its like one of those ioccc vids - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg

delopsu

3 months ago

Very interesting one! So many cool things have been made in this field! However I think it's not relevant for the board. It's not open-sourced (at least yet).

Anyway thank you for checking it out and suggestion!

vunderba

3 months ago

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Nice job. There's also a good open-source ASCII paint tool which supports export to TXT/ or PNG that I've been using for the past few years as well.

Github

https://github.com/Kirilllive/ASCII_Art_Paint

Online Demo

https://kirilllive.github.io/ASCII_Art_Paint/ascii_paint.htm...

delopsu

3 months ago

Thank yuou for sharing! Interesting solution. I'm thinking about adding brush palette.