This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.…
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12
I forgot both to archive this 10+ year old G+ post and schedule a blog post about it This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.….
ASCII to bezier drawn images in a very clever way.
Found it back when searching for prior blog posts on ASCII art, because of my yesterday’s blog-post ASCII Art Archive, so here it finally is: the links about how to go from ASCII art to bezier images. Have fun!
- [Wayback/Archive] Replacing Photoshop With NSString – The Guinea Pig in the Cocoa Mine
ASCIImage: combining ASCII art and Kindergarten skills
Xcode does not compile ASCII art, so I decided I would write the necessary ‘ASCII art compiler’ myself. OK, I did not write a compiler, but a small fun project called ‘ASCIImage’! It works on iOS and Mac as a simple UIImage / NSImage category with a couple of factory methods. It is open-source and released under the MIT license on GitHub. I also set up a landing page with a link to an editor hacked together by @mz2 in just a few hours during NSConference: asciimage.org.
- [Wayback/Archive] ASCIImage
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cparnot/ASCIImage: Create UIImage / NSImage instances with NSString and ASCII art
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Whitespace is ignored. The 2 representations below are thus equivalent. It should be clear why using extra whitespace is recommended: it really helps make the content appear at the right aspect ratio.
· · · 1 2 · · · · · ···12····· · · · A # # · · · · ···A##···· · · · · # # # · · · ····###··· · · · · · # # # · · ·····###·· · · · · · · 9 # 3 · ······9#3· · · · · · · 8 # 4 · ······8#4· · · · · · # # # · · ·····###·· · · · · # # # · · · ····###··· · · · 7 # # · · · · ···7##···· · · · 6 5 · · · · · ···65·····…
- [Wayback/Archive] ASCIImage: NSConf Slides, Editor and More – The Guinea Pig in the Cocoa Mine
- [Wayback/Archive] Monodraw for macOS — Helftone Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac. (free trial; license EUR ~10)
Heck, there are even implementations for C# (WPF) and Delphi (FMX, need to check if this is really usable in VCL):
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – markryd/ASCIImage-Sharp: A C#/WPF port of ASCIImage
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Memnarch/AsciiImage: AsciiImage for Delphi
--jeroen
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