[HN Gopher] ANSIArt
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       ANSIArt
        
       Author : Lutzb
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2022-08-05 11:52 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mrogalski.eu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mrogalski.eu)
        
       | memorable wrote:
       | Interesting idea, but the Render button doesn't seem to work for
       | me though.
        
         | ainar-g wrote:
         | Uncaught ReferenceError: OffscreenCanvas is not defined
         | 
         | Testing Only In Chrome strikes again!
        
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           | bestouff wrote:
           | Same here. That's sad.
        
       | sekao wrote:
       | See also https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa which is an image ->
       | unicode library written in C. I built it into my BBS so users can
       | embed images in their posts. Some turn out better than others but
       | it gives the board a unique feel at least.
        
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       | dukoid wrote:
       | Another C++ Library (+command line tool) to convert images to
       | Ansi art is TerminalImageViewer(tiv):
       | https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer
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       | The algorithm is described at the top of the README, examples are
       | at the end.
       | 
       | I'd really be interested to read what the specific innovation is
       | for new libraries / algorithms... A shared reference image would
       | probably also help to see the differences...
        
       | develatio wrote:
       | This sounds like libcaca[0]
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       | [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca
        
       | ichbinlegion wrote:
       | When I drop a .ttf file on the page I get "Only images & fonts
       | can be dropped onto this page!" message. If I try to upload a
       | .ttf file I get "Only font files can be selected".
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       | The file I'm trying to upload is "JuliaMono-Regular.ttf"
       | downloaded from the provided link on the page.
        
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