Re: more braille art (not mine)

Colin Randall <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:46:01 +0100
Newsgroups alt.ascii-art
Organization none whatsoever
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 22/06/2021 21:07, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> 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.

Hi ... (another rabbit hole)

just for reference/interest/curiosity ...

https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/braille_patterns/utf8test.htm

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii  ==  googlemaps in braille/ascii


obasc: (not braille - just something to look at)(not by me)

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