Gem Version

ASCII Art

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Description

The ascii_art gem will allow you to turn your terminal into a canvas for creating images with ASCII characters.

Installation

Install the gem with:

$ gem install ascii_art

Usage

To open a new canvas, simply use:

AsciiArt.start

or from the command line:

$ ascii_art start

This will open a blank canvas on which you can start drawing.

Key Commands

Key Action
Arrows Move the cursor around the screen
tab "Lift" the brush so you can move the cursor without marking the canvas
p "Print" the drawing, saving it to a drawing.txt file in your current directory
Other character keys Change the character being drawn
esc Quit the program

If you would like to specify a different file to which your drawing should be saved, you can use the -f or --file option on the command line:

$ ascii_art start -f my_drawing.txt

$ ascii_art start --file best_art.txt

If you'd like to continue working on a drawing you've started previously, you can load files into the app using the scan command:

$ ascii_art scan an_old_drawing.txt

and can still use the -f option to set the print destination:

$ ascii_art scan an_old_drawing.txt -f my_new_masterpiece.txt

This will read the file you specify and draw its contents to a new canvas. In order to prevent overwriting any of your beautiful handiwork, the brush will start in the lifted position, and can be lowered with the tab key.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to AsciiArt, feel free to create a pull request. If you'd like to contact me, you can reach me at [email protected] or on Twitter @chrisccerami.

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/chrisccerami/ascii_art/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Chris C Cerami

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.