Asciiflow
asciiflow.com
asciiflow.com
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+------------------+ +----------------------+Just thought I would chime in, I'm working hard on a complete re-write of ASCIIFlow, killing GWT and moving to canvas + JS while keeping the ASCII look and feel, adding tools to resize things, and making the canvas size infinite and most importantly, supporting mobile!
Please get in touch if you have requests. https://github.com/lewish
What was your original motivation for putting it together, did you particularly need it for your work or was it more a fun idea to work on?
I don't think it won't fit the name at all as an extra feature (though it only makes sense to use Unicode for that purpose).
It's a dated phrase referring to various one-byte-per-character encodings that include ASCII as a subset. Now that UTF-8 exists and is widely used, those encodings are useless until you decode them into Unicode anyway.
And yes I am aware that they used to use graphical box drawing chars back in the day as well, but right now it's 2014 and it's the aesthetic that counts, too.
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I'm going to fork this to make sure it never disappears from the intarwebs
It's a Google App Engine-based Java monster:
Over Quota
This application is temporarily over its serving quota.
Please try again later.This is something I might use in source code to describe / draw the relationship between elements.
Also, everybody needs a small ascii graphic in the output from time to time.
EDIT: Language.
For examples, load up http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html and start scrolling.
I'd rather see that on the front page.
Yes, like this: http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html
Also, it seems to support multiple people drawing collaboratively via a server
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+-----------------------------------------------------+edit: And we just ddos'd it.
Drawing with these characters was very similar to these ascii drawings: one byte gave you a piece of a line (or an arc), and you built a grid of them. The schematic editor took a simple here's-the-grid-coordinate-of-an-element representation of the schematic, adjusted the offsets of the glyphs of that element, and built-up the grid of bytes to send to the terminal.
My take is that the closer documentation is to the code the more useful it is and more likely it will be updated. Would be great to have your feedback on a side project in this area, a chrome extension / web service to turn Umlet diagrams into SVGs when you're viewing them through GitHub. Check it out at https://github.com/CalumJEadie/umlet-github.
One issue: I seem to get the same behavior from "right angle" line mode and the "diagonal" line mode. I would have expected the latter to use the forward back slash characters.
Anyone have a mirror?