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jkhanlar

a month ago

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

a month ago

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

a month ago

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

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

atum47

a month ago

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

delopsu

a month ago

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

firasan

a month ago

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

delopsu

a month ago

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

a month ago

Much better now. Thanks for fixing it!

delopsu

a month ago

Thank you!

delopsu

a month ago

Thank you, working on it at the moment.

kordlessagain

a month ago

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a month ago

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a month ago

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a month ago

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andrewrn

a month ago

Really fun. Perfect HN post.

delopsu

a month ago

Thank you!

DamonHD

a month ago

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

a month 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.

vunderba

a month ago

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

a month ago

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

And thank you for checking it out, glad you liked it!

doi9t

a month ago

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

a month 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

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a month ago

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matt3210

a month ago

> 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

a month 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.

slig

a month ago

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

delopsu

a month ago

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

Thank you for checking it out!

delopsu

a month ago

Oh, these guys have a drawing board too, with a bit different approach: https://www.asciiart.eu/ascii-draw-studio/app

47282847

a month ago

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

delopsu

a month ago

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

delopsu

a month 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!

bigjobby

a month ago

Brilliant. Rick ASCii thanks you https://bigjobby.com/8bitrick/

delopsu

a month ago

Thank you!

delopsu

a month ago

It's a shame that I haven't read text above after posting (only in Edit mode).

I used asterisk after "difficult task" and in the footer — all between became italic. And also brush was cleaned out.

Anyway thank you for checking it out and suggestion!

user

a month ago

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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

user

a month ago

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a month ago

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