I wasn't satisfied with sexels(a terminal bitmap drawing...

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I wasn't satisfied with sexels(a terminal bitmap drawing scheme) as it didn't map well with the 8x16 grid. So I've made a little format inspired from it.

The representation of the pixels in this image in the text editor is all textual, except for the escape code(0x1b).

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/gly_format.html

Like 19 Mar 2023 at 4:04 | Open on merveilles.town

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efelbar

@neauoire that's super cool! :D

could you try using the pictual representation implicitly in other contexts as well? i.e. pictographic filenames or code?

19 Mar 2023 at 4:11 | Open on merveilles.town

Devine Lu Linvega

@flbr in code yes, that's why I built this, I wanted to have little icons in one of my files.

But in filenames probably not, since there are a few special characters.

19 Mar 2023 at 4:12 | Open on merveilles.town

efelbar

@neauoire ah got it, that's still super cool though!

19 Mar 2023 at 4:13 | Open on merveilles.town

Devine Lu Linvega

@flbr I like to keep things apart for reasons of .. small memory. But creating little pictures on the fly is super easy :)

19 Mar 2023 at 4:14 | Open on merveilles.town

efelbar

@neauoire oh wow, you're so right, that is still super fast! that's a really interesting way of thinking about things as well - small, modular, and cross-sharing instead of monolithic and special-purpose :)

19 Mar 2023 at 4:17 | Open on merveilles.town

Acorn Squashbuckler

@neauoire This is so cool!! I haven't been exposed to ASCII-encoded pictures before, so this is such a fun mind-bend for me! I think that your GLY spec is very neat and clever.

I read through the doc and you say there's an escape code at the beginning of each line for the GLY encoding. I'm curious: what escape code are you using there? Is it just a genuine escape character code, 0x1B, or is it something else? Am I understanding the encoding correctly?

19 Mar 2023 at 4:53 | Open on tech.lgbt

Devine Lu Linvega

@AcornSquashbuckler it's 0x1b in Left, I'm not certain if I'll stick with just a plain escape code, or at something right after.

19 Mar 2023 at 15:39 | Open on merveilles.town

screwlisp

@neauoire did you see some of @prahou 's art using interlisp (which your bitmap in a markdown readme reminds me of)? https://bsd.network/@prahou/110021502387939543
In (tedit) You can also blend your bitmap art with text, though interpress is a binary data format (there are ascii texture - character maps as well in). ( interlisp.org )