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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."

5 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. 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?

  2. Look at his webpage logo, people! by Gudlyf · · Score: 5, Funny

    His webpage logo is clealy a lop of poo.

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

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

    Sweeeeet! ;)

  4. Re:ANSI Art Library by WiKKeSH · · Score: 5, Informative

    While you're at it, you can check individual group's sites.

    http://www.senseimagery.com
    http://www.acid.org
    http://www.ice.org
    http://www.spreadthedisease. com
    http://www.spreadthedisease.com/27inch

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  5. Been there, done that, two or three years ago. by WolfWings · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Should I bother releasing my patch to AALib? Replaces the monochrome buffer with a 32bpp RGB- buffer, uses a much more tuned colour-selection system than libCACA appears to.

    A screenshot of the BattleToads title screen, linked out of Archive.org as I don't have a current website for the TextNES emulator worth pointing too at the moment, unfortunately.

    But yeah... been there, did that, didn't think anyone would be interested so I never released the patch.