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.
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.
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...
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.
Really fun. Perfect HN post.
Thank you!
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.
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!
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!
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
Nice one, thanks for sharing! Love these simple tools that LLMs can help us ship them in no time.
Yes, exactly! There might so many unexplored and/or abandoned ideas.
Thank you for checking it out!
It could work on mobile if you work a little bit on it. Right now touch is dragging the screen
Oh, yes, forgot about it. On tablet it could be pretty convenient to use, if it works. Thank you!
On my iPad, the vertical movements seem to trigger the page scroll
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.
Much better now. Thanks for fixing it!
Thank you!
Thank you, working on it at the moment.
> 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!
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.
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...
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.
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile. On each stroke it only renders one "point".
Hm. What OS do you use? It works fine (for me) in Firefox on iOS. Haven't tested on Android.
For me, Firefox on Android, I get this:
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
Could you please try it now? Pushed a fix, but have no Android to test it.
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.
I'm going to use this for all of my Slack replies
Aha, thank you!
emacs M-x artist-mode
TIL :)
very interesting, good job!
Thank you!
This is such a great idea, well done. Congrats!
Thank you!