Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board(www.delopsu.com)
121 pointsby delopsu8 days ago23 comments
  • jkhanlar8 days ago
    It appears a little buggy handling fixed width improperly, noticeably when using a mouse to write out a word, with uneven drawing, the fixed width spacing does not consistently properly match the cursor movement for some lines.
  • atum478 days ago
    It could work on mobile if you work a little bit on it. Right now touch is dragging the screen
    • delopsu8 days ago
      Oh, yes, forgot about it. On tablet it could be pretty convenient to use, if it works. Thank you!
      • firasan8 days ago
        On my iPad, the vertical movements seem to trigger the page scroll
        • delopsu8 days ago
          I've pushed a simple fix.

          It allows to draw on touch devices (with interesting effects with multi-touch). But one can stuck at the center of the canvas. If it happens — tap the header of the browser to scroll back to top.

          Could you please try it again?

          Thinking about more elegant solution.

          • firasan8 days ago
            Much better now. Thanks for fixing it!
        • delopsu8 days ago
          Thank you, working on it at the moment.
  • kordlessagain7 days ago

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  • andrewrn8 days ago
    Really fun. Perfect HN post.
  • DamonHD8 days ago
    Would much prefer it to start with just printable ASCII characters in the brush (32--126) from which the output would work in more places and would be in better alignment with the name.

    Having said that, yes, fun and interesting, thank you...

    • delopsu8 days ago
      Thank you for trying it and for the feedback! Glad you liked it!

      > start with just printable ASCII characters in the brush

      Yes. I started like this. But then set these fancy characters by default to show the capabilities, because those who are familiar with the concept know the possibilities, but those who don't know could think that it's limited and not notice wide limits.

  • vunderba7 days ago
    Nice job. There's also a good open-source ASCII paint tool which supports export to TXT/ or PNG that I've been using for the past few years as well.

    Github

    https://github.com/Kirilllive/ASCII_Art_Paint

    Online Demo

    https://kirilllive.github.io/ASCII_Art_Paint/ascii_paint.htm...

    • delopsu7 days ago
      Thank yuou for sharing! Interesting solution. I'm thinking about adding brush palette.

      And thank you for checking it out, glad you liked it!

  • doi9t8 days ago
    It's always nice to see new tools editing ASCII; especially when working with markdown documentation.

    For those who like those types of tools, but for diagrams, there's asciiflow.com.

    Good job!

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  • matt32108 days ago
    > So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board

    Very nice. Congrats to the coding agent which made this. Needs an undo button though!

    • delopsu8 days ago
      Passed it. Here is the reponse:

      > Love to hear that — thank you for sharing!

      Not sure about Undo — part of me wants to keep it hardcore. Like with real ink.

  • delopsu7 days ago
    Oh, these guys have a drawing board too, with a bit different approach: https://www.asciiart.eu/ascii-draw-studio/app
  • slig8 days ago
    Nice one, thanks for sharing! Love these simple tools that LLMs can help us ship them in no time.
    • delopsu8 days ago
      Yes, exactly! There might so many unexplored and/or abandoned ideas.

      Thank you for checking it out!

  • bigjobby6 days ago
    Brilliant. Rick ASCii thanks you https://bigjobby.com/8bitrick/
  • 472828477 days ago
    Nice! Feature request: drop-down menu to select a few “popular“ brush sets.
    • delopsu2 days ago
      Just added brushes palette. So far only local. And reworked layout a bit. Hope it makes board more convenient.
    • delopsu7 days ago
      Yes, thank you! I'm thinking about making brushes and art gallery, it would be very interesting to see what people come up with.

      Thank you for checking it out and for the feedback!

  • delopsu8 days ago
    It's a shame that I haven't read text above after posting (only in Edit mode).

    I used asterisk after "difficult task" and in the footer — all between became italic. And also brush was cleaned out.

  • jbentley18 days ago
    I'm going to use this for all of my Slack replies
  • pwnfunction7 days ago
    is this opensource? adding a cool fluid simulation to whatever you draw would be really fun. its like one of those ioccc vids - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg
    • delopsu7 days ago
      Very interesting one! So many cool things have been made in this field! However I think it's not relevant for the board. It's not open-sourced (at least yet).

      Anyway thank you for checking it out and suggestion!

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  • teddyh8 days ago
    emacs M-x artist-mode
  • janwillemb8 days ago
    Doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile. On each stroke it only renders one "point".
    • delopsu8 days ago
      Hm. What OS do you use? It works fine (for me) in Firefox on iOS. Haven't tested on Android.
      • 01HNNWZ0MV43FF8 days ago
        For me, Firefox on Android, I get this:

        One stroke draws one spot at the starting point. Any number of further strokes draw nothing. When I tap outside the canvas I can draw one more point

        • delopsu8 days ago
          Could you please try it now? Pushed a fix, but have no Android to test it.
  • arkensaw8 days ago
    This is such a great idea, well done. Congrats!
  • Grayson20258 days ago
    very interesting, good job!
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