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 |
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| 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 ------ whose .plan file was last modified in 1998