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Color Ascii Art Library

Posted by michael on from the news-you-can-use dept.

thedj_sd writes "As the true slashdot reader you just love ascii art of course. You have toyed around with aalib or maybe you use it all the time to watch your pr0n :) Well VLC media player's senior developer sam was bored some time ago and created libcaca. The Colour AsCii Art library of which he himself says: 'I am perfectly aware that libcaca is the waste of time it looks to be. No need to tell me about that.' But you just can't help looking at that beautiful picture of Stitch, and Doom in coloured ascii is da bomb. It works on dos/windows, Linux and Mac OS X and there is a VLC plugin and SDL backend available."

23 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. What about.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    libkacke?

  2. Amazing by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 2, Funny

    So bad the name doesn't seems to say much about nice colours .... : )

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  3. libCACA? by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, now that is funny. In french, caca means poo or shit. That guy just created "libshit".

    1. Re:libcaca? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      What, did none of you ever watch Quantum Leap? You call yourselves geeks and yet the first thing that didn't come into your mind was the phrase "Ziggy says it's all gone a little caca."? Bah. Bah to you all!

  4. I've been waiting for this for ages by Space+cowboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. so I too can view movies in colour when I'm browsing with Lynx :)

    Simon

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  5. watching pr0n with aalib + xine by quigonn · · Score: 3, Funny

    I really have to recommend it! It's great fun to watch! I always use it when I want to watch pr0n but too lazy to fire up X11.

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  6. Oh no... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can see it now. Tons of goatse ASCII's coming up :-/

  7. TheDraw by Stavr0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Boy that takes me back ...

  8. nop, libshit allready exist. by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 4, Funny

    libshit is the code name for kernel32.dll : )

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  9. Re:libcaca by kinnell · · Score: 4, Funny
    I do not seriously think this'll help this lib's author deploying his product.

    Agreed. Most commercial software firms will not develop with a library if it's name means shit. It's attitudes like this which work against ascii art libraries being taken seriously in the commercial world.

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  10. ASCII art for Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Whoa! In a moment of genious, I figured out a nice ASCII art logo for slashdot. Here it is (drumroll):

    /.

    Brilliant, eh?

    1. Re:ASCII art for Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
      Mine's better:
      ......jXP....
      .....dR?.....
      ....jDF...... News for nerds
      ...iH7.......
      ..dKP........ stuff that matters
      .jM?....,db..
      dHP.....'^P'.
      I originally drew it without the dots and with a startrek ship in the background, but that was impossible to paste here.
    2. Re:ASCII art for Slashdot by AllUsernamesAreGone · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's not in colour though!

    3. Re:ASCII art for Slashdot by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Funny
      It's not in colour though!

      This one might be:

      /.

    4. Re:ASCII art for Slashdot by AmbientOrbDevice · · Score: 2, Funny

      I love when people spell 'genius' wrong :) Not quite as fun as spelling 'illiterate' wrong, but good anyway.

  11. ASCII-art Made Easy by dupper · · Score: 4, Funny
    @

    Behold! The human form in all it glory!

    You can even recreate classic works of art:

    The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan Van Eyck:

    ______
    |..(......_
    |@@....
    |..d........

    The Creation of Adam by Michaelangelo:

    ......
    ..@ @
    ......
    Tyr Hits! -more-

    And for God's sake, lighten up the lameness filter!

    1. Re:ASCII-art Made Easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan Van Eyck:

      ______
      |..(......_
      |@@....
      |..d........
      That @ on the right looks pregnant to me...
  12. Look at his webpage logo, people! by Gudlyf · · Score: 5, Funny

    His webpage logo is clealy a lop of poo.

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  13. Hardware Optimization! by MarkJensen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like the perfect time to try out my new video card!

    Sweeeeet! ;)

  14. Re:Mirror, front page text by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What is this, for the link challanged? For those who cant click and look at the page themselves? Or for pure karma whore-ism?

  15. Re:libcaca by jest3r · · Score: 1, Funny

    people dont have a problem using and abusing the Gimp .. playing with libcaca doesn't seem so bad.

    actually how about piping the Gimp through libcaca .. i hear stuff like that is poular in Japan ..

  16. Sweet! by siskbc · · Score: 4, Funny
    It'll probably get slashdotted quickly, but for those who remember ANSI Art groups like iCE and ACiD I am in the process of creating a library of their packs viewable online. http://ansi.idledreams.net for the actual site and http://idledreams.net/ansi/ for news about it.

    That's taking me back about 10 years. Oh shit, I'm 16 and I can't get a fucking date! AAaaaah!

    Glad I'm really 26 and married. Oh, wait - AAaaahhh!!!

    Seriously, thanks for posting the stuff.

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  17. it's not useless by jago25_98 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can now play Unreal Tournament/whatever on my silent p90 thin-client

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