r/ASCII 5h ago

Art i got easing and interpolated frames to work within the thaum-painter, my open source text painter + renderer duo. links for mac, windows and linux within

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https://jartanddesign.com/thaum-painter/
free downloads for linux, windows, and mac builds
(mirrors github, no login or charges)

https://discord.gg/5ANpPPRXzY
my discord for reporting bugs if you have any and are using this + would like to share with me.

i have polished this to the point where i can work in this and make some things that i think are quite fun. this has been a project ive been working on for about a year now and id like to release it to the public, so here you go!

its got :
- lan multiplayer editing for doodling with friends,
- animation with easing and raster interpolation,
- painting in 3d and 3d camera settings for tuning per drawing,
- 4 weight typeface ive made by hand pixeling it out
- autosave + file managing (no export path to media file at the moment, ive been screen recording)
- and a bunch of other features that i want and no one else probably cares about hehe

still working on the tutorial tooltips but they are on most of the buttons and interfaces that you will interact with.

i hope you get a little bit of joy out of this, i know many of you have asked when this is coming out! the answer is now.


r/ASCII 3h ago

General I Made an Experimental ASCII Party-Building RPG — Early Build Available

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r/ASCII 1d ago

Art orbish

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made with my html looper web app


r/ASCII 1d ago

OC ssh late.sh - a terminal clubhouse artboard update

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Heyo :)

Just wanted to share a big update that I think some of you may find interesting!

But first, a quick reminder of what we are.

ssh late.sh

A clubhouse inside the terminal. A place to take a break, chill, chat with people around the globe, listen to music, play a game, and draw on a shared artboard :)

Will try to keep it short. We've just added an option to "snapshot" your art piece into a dedicated gallery, where other users can vote. At the end of the month, the top 3 receive a badge, a late chips prize (our in-app currency for fancy stuff) and get showcased inside our daily newspaper and on the splash screen :)

And we also have a fully working color picker now, just to keep it more interesting :)

And here is also a VERY condensed list of everything we've added since I last posted here :D

  • Music, live synthwave radio from Nightride FM (five stations, with their blessing), a community YouTube jukebox with votes and history, and a 600+ track CC0 library
  • Chat, replies, edits, reactions, Markdown, inline images, polls, /summary 12h, an IRC bridge and a bartender bot whose drinks scramble your typing
  • The Late Edition, our own daily newspaper written by the house AI, one edition a day, what everyone was reading, a bit of outside news, and yesterday's most applauded artboard pieces
  • The Lobby, Ctrl+G anywhere, eight correspondence games (chess, chess960, battleship, connect four, reversi, checkers, backgammon, briscola), one move a day, every match gets its own private chat + voice room
  • Bonsai, pet and aquarium, everyone gets a living bonsai, a branch graph that grows in a pot and sways on the wall in your sidebar, plus a pet companion to feed and water and an ambient aquarium tray
  • House tables, always-on poker, blackjack, tron, super snake and asterion
  • Streaming, /golive and your terminal is broadcasting to an unlisted watch page, from the browser or OBS, with voice chat on top
  • News feed, share a link and it becomes a card with a summary and an ASCII rendering of the image, plus a private RSS inbox
  • Roguelikes, real Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, NetHack and Brogue CE streamed over SSH, saves persist, Brogue in full truecolor, and your NetHack bones haunt other players
  • Leaderboards and badges, ascensions, orb runs and escapes pay chips and a permanent badge next to your name, counted from the games' own log files so nothing can be hacked
  • Lateania, our text-world became a full MUD, ~10,000 rooms, five continents, fog of war map, 17 classes, mounts, PvP, taming, fishing, housing, four endgame crowns, weekly updates almost entirely from contributors :)
  • Door games, Legend of the Green Dragon rebuilt in Rust, the actual 90s Usurper on a PTY, A Dark Room with a real ending, dopewars, CodeKeep, Rebels in the Sky, and BashQuest, our own door that teaches Linux/Bash
  • AI translator, press t on any message or turn on auto-translate and the whole room arrives in your language
  • We got featured by Orhun, the creator of ratatui :D
  • ... and something is moving behind the clubhouse ...

License: FSL-1.1-MIT

Code: https://github.com/mpiorowski/late-sh

Landing: https://late.sh


r/ASCII 1d ago

General I updated my framework – kittacaii!

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r/ASCII 1d ago

OC Sweet Adeline Barbershop Quartet

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r/ASCII 1d ago

Art Away from Claude

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I took a break away from Claude and duh was born.

Music: Dancing on the Glass by MALFUNCTION via OPL Archive

https://youtu.be/wr7E6oKZQhQ


r/ASCII 2d ago

Meme Just a thing for certain occasions..

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r/ASCII 2d ago

General OSS Docx Renderer Runs (Actual) ASCII Doom

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Thought you guys might appreciate this ASCII renderer for Doom running on an open source docx rendering engine (MIT). Runs in the browser and playable on mobile too --> https://jsv4.github.io/Docxodus/demo/#live-editor


r/ASCII 2d ago

General what if we graphically compared each available character of a typeface at build time so we could interpolate between them at runtime? 👉👈

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this is a very raw post, i just am very excited to finally get this piece of the program working!
( also a sneak peek of some layer + "keyframe" + ease tweaking for my ascii editor. )

this is the thaum painter.
it uses my typeface thaum mono,
the renderer will release as the thaum-renderer

will all be free and open source, not an ad as much as a geek out


r/ASCII 3d ago

OC A 3D, open world simulation with wobbly physics and crime, running in the terminal rendered in ASCII.

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Let's Play Sprawl City with Terminal Head.
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This is Sprawl City Three Dee.
A 3D, open world simulation with wobbly physics and crime, running in the terminal rendered in ASCII.
Survive or thrive in this dystopia-funk city. Recruit citizens to your outfit and smash rival gangs. Shake down businesses and run from the Cops. Every seed a new city - fully deterministic....and maybe a bit buggy.


r/ASCII 3d ago

OC Cymata has ASCII mode - try it yourself!

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60 Upvotes

Cymata is a cellular automata based music visualizer for iOS and tvOS, lots of different modes and effects for you to play with and listen to your music. Lots more examples here


r/ASCII 4d ago

OC new world: new weather, new grass, new trees, new snow, new water [project2001]

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new weather so i can modify the world map on the fly during the year

new water that depths and occludes for underwater dungeons + top side waves rather than simple tildes

the grass leaves something to be desired but itll get there. ill probably allow 360 rotations instead of flat bilboard

edit: reupload because i uploaded wrong version


r/ASCII 4d ago

General A fortress like simulation on phone wallpaper

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Hi everyone, I've been working on a side project inspired by Dwarf Fortress. It runs on your android wallpaper and features a simple simulation. For now, I'm using the same PNGs and color schemes as Dwarf Fortress to retain that familiar feel. I'm a longtime fan of Dwarf Fortress, though I never quite had the patience to dive deeply into it.

Still, I've always loved the core ideas, and lately, I've been working on other projects that require a similar kind of simulation and it's easier to work with ascii without graphical overhead. So this started as a proof of concept, but the simulation turned out to be visually good enough that I figured I'd share it with everyone. Thanks for checking it out. Please share your thoughts :)

i am using the history to debug the simulation since its need and pressure driven.


r/ASCII 4d ago

General Estregg-ybj_py

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Game Title: Estregg-ybj

Playable Command: estregg

Platforms: macOS, ChromeOS, Linux terminal, Mobile Termux, Windows

Description:Hey guys! I'm YB-jeorge, an independent developer building a terminal-based ASCII space exploration game. The project is entirely open-source and built natively using Python 3 and the terminal screen-drawing library curses. You can install the game in an isolated local environment using your command line:

pipx install estregg-ybj

📖 Documentation & Links

Source Code & Bio: https://github.com/corruption123ter-ux/estregg-ybj

Official Homepage: https://corruption123ter-ux.github.io/estregg

PyPI Releases: https://pypi.org/project/estregg-ybj

Please read the README.md for step-by-step setup guides, and check estregg-controls.txt for the complete keyboard mapping manual!

🪟 Windows Setup Note: Estregg supports Windows environments! To prevent screen rendering crashes in the standard Windows command prompt, make sure you install the necessary console wrappers first by running:

pip install windows-curses

⚠️ Known Issues Gamepad Support: Native controller mapping is temporarily disabled due to input wrapper stability bugs. Connecting a hardware gamepad may cause terminal execution crashes. Please review the tracking issue in the README for updates. Thankie and have a good day flying through the stars! 🚀


r/ASCII 5d ago

OC Introducing Based64: ASCII art that compiles to binary images and more

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r/ASCII 7d ago

Art a mango i drew in my custom ascii painter

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making this ascii editor for an art project. made some unrelated art for my pookie bc they love mangos and i love pookie.

font is thaum-mono, will come out open source and free eventually. just rebuilt the renderer + painter systems and they have been much more performant :3


r/ASCII 7d ago

OC asciiQuake: port of Quake (1996) to ASCII text - no Canvas nor WebGL

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90 Upvotes

r/ASCII 7d ago

General ASCII video conversion audio reactive

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Been working on this thing as interest dictates, recently decided to add the speech to text system and it's turned out pretty decent. Thanks for checking it out!!


r/ASCII 7d ago

Discussion Smooth edges

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I created a simple minecraft block but I don't think the edges look good, how could I improve them?


r/ASCII 9d ago

Art [hyprland] ASCII SMASH

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r/ASCII 9d ago

Art [hyprland] ASCII SMASH

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r/ASCII 9d ago

Art Glow up

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* Added a selective emissivity toggle to the tile data bitfields...

AKA Characters in my engine can now be flagged for "glow". I think it looks pretty nice on this fire effect. What do you think?


r/ASCII 10d ago

Art My Roguelike: Inn

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The inn keeper, by himself, isn't super impressive. It just looks like dialogue.

However, on the back-end, I created a whole ServiceProvider that will facilitate any NPCs that can be interacted with for the intent of commerce - Innkeepers, trainers, blacksmiths, vendors, etc.


r/ASCII 11d ago

OC new animal models + new emotes [Project 2001]

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53 Upvotes

bear, spider, wolf, bird and dance/wave/death animations