Re: more braille art (not mine)

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 20:07:13 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups alt.ascii-art
Organization Some absurd concept
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In alt.ascii-art, Tavis Ormandy  <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-06-22, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> > I've seen software to rotate ASCII art 90 or 180 degrees, I'd have to
> > hunt pretty hard to find it again I think. But I can imagine a program
> > to transcode ASCII art to braille as well. I don't think it would work
> > as neatly as a hand done translation though.
> I don't know about any program, but the library libcaca can do it, there
> are functions like caca_rotate_180(). It chooses replacement characters
> that look (kinda) similar to a mirrored/rotated version of the original.
> 
> It works pretty well for things like boxes and flowcharts, but mixed
> results for everything else :)

As expected.

> -- 
>  _o)            $ lynx lock.cmpxchg8b.com

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/tektronix.html

That's hilarious.

>  /\\  _o)  _o)  $ finger [email protected]

Wow, that's a blast from the past, someone encouraging people to finger
them. Panix supports finger, in the old-school type that tells login
shell, tty, and mail read time in addtions to .plan and .project.

finger [email protected]

I use a non-standard mailbox so mail read time is wildly wrong.

Elijah
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