What I did was I searched through the web, found some web sites with image-to-ASCII conversion applications in PHP, combined all their ideas (including Daniel's), and implemented another (more enhanced) version of the ASCII Art generator in. This is yet another article on the same topic, but with a slightly more enhanced ASCII Art generation. According to Daniel, he was not able to find any C# application on the web that does image-to-ASCII conversions, so he decided to write his own, and hence his article. Well, a few months ago, I stumbled across an article 4 on Code Project by Daniel Fisher which talks about creating an application that does just this. Have you ever seen a C# application that converts a given image to a text-based ASCII Art image like the ones shown above? ** The Windows application port is provided by David Luu, and is not maintained by me.ĪSCII Art image (colored and monochrome) ĪSCII Art image (pure color-HTML and unformatted text-only) Introduction Download demo Windows App source files** - 64.3 KB.Download demo web-application - 26.4 kB.Luis has updated the log for LibreServo.Apollo Timbers has updated the log for Sophie Robot.Shane Bekker liked Minamil: a minimal CNC mill.DTW Projects has updated the project titled Homebrew Animatronics.on Watch Out For Lasercutter Manufacturers Violating GPL PWalsh on A Look Back At The USSR Computer Industry.Joshua on A Look Back At The USSR Computer Industry.AggregatVier on A Look Back At The USSR Computer Industry.Max on A Look Back At The USSR Computer Industry.The Pantry on Looking At Fortran In 100 Seconds.YGDES on A Look Back At The USSR Computer Industry.Professional python user since 2.1 on This Week In Security: Retbleed, Post-Quantum, Python-atomicwrites, And The Mysterious Cuteboi.Overwhelmed By Odd Inputs: The Contest Winners And More 1 Comment it is an astonishing absence of basic minimal functionality for such a tool. this in-between level of detail where it pretends to give me timing information for each bit in a whole packet, while actually not giving me enough information about even a single bit to provide useful information…it’s just not valuable.īut i am *really* dismayed that the fact that the transition on the data line happens immediately *after* the clock-rise is obscured in this example. but then to describe a serial protocol, you should just be telling me about bits using 0b0100 or 0x4 sort of notation. it’s worthwhile to show a single bit in detail, to elucidate all of the timing constraints (minimum and maximum rise/fall times, acceptable delays between clock transition and data transition, etc). Tbh, i am not that crazy about overused timing diagrams. that way the important timing information is represented because i am deciding what needs to be represented! asciiwave obviously does a poor job of figuring out which information needs to be adequately represented and which can be lost in a blur / alignment infelicity. To me, it is the same problem as schematics and if i need to do it i will make my own ascii art by hand (or use a vector language like svg, for presentation). crazy unicode characters! some sort of bold? and then even in the example at the head of this article, the timing information - the only useful thing there - is completely lost. but the ascii output here is absolutely unusable. Yeah i’m pretty interested in descriptive languages like the one that wavedrom uses…and i find svg pretty useful even though it’s not that much fun to write directly. Posted in Microcontrollers, Software Hacks Tagged ascii art, json, timing diagram, verilog, wavedrom Post navigation So if you’ve found WaveDrom useful, but wish you could generate ASCII versions, here’s your solution. It reads the exact same format that WaveDrom uses, but generates an ASCII-art timing diagram instead. It accepts timing diagrams expressed as JSON data, and renders nicely-readable digital timing diagrams as images directly inside one’s browser.Īs cool and useful as that is, images can’t be pasted into text fields. WaveDrom itself is a nifty JavaScript tool that we have covered before. Unlike images, ASCII timing diagrams are suitable for pasting into comment fields, change logs, or anywhere else that accepts text only. That’s what led to create asciiwave, a fantastic tool that turns WaveDrom timing diagrams into ASCII art. We all use text-based fields at one time or another, and being limited to ASCII only can end up being a limitation.