Brainstorm: what if we really make a vim plugin for pixel art?
I see this to be hugely practical. It will enable rapid charting in source code documentation, and also, solve the table formatting problem once and for all.
Edit: shapes? Patterns? Gradients? Dithering? (Think about cacao) lasso tool? Semantic movement? Like, w moves over all reddish blocks
Wow, I never of this being practical in vim. That's an awesome idea! Although I'm not sure it would be 'high res' enough to work for inline code documentation.. If that is what you meant?
Also I love the idea of semantic movement, I'll definitely put it on my feature-list!
Actually, I've been looking for something forever that will do block diagrams in a sane way in vim. If you could get that to work I would literally organize a parade in your honor.
This looks pretty cool! Pens/mice are great for analog style art (digital painting and the like), but for highly discrete art like pixel art a keyboard looks to be a much better interface at first blush.
Nice. Reminds of the ANSI Art I would see on a BBS back in the day. Is there a way to export the art so that it could be printed in the Terminal. Would love to add some art to some scripts
I have worked on libraries for images in terminals [https://github.com/fenwick67/term-px] but I never thought to make a simple image import / export tool so you could just `cat` the file to show it in a terminal. Now you gave me a weekend project.
It might be worth using the none standard but we'll supported true colour ANSI escape sequences. You'll get much better output that way (I've done lots of experimenting with images in the terminal and I found that gave me the best output and more reliably then the other ANSI hacks that are limited to only supporting one specific terminal emulator)
Thanks! Beautifying scripts is a usecase that didn't come to my mind so far. Awesome idea, I don't know why I didn't think about it! So far it is only possible to write your image to a file (which is just some json) or to export to svg, but it shouldn't be much trouble to get something which can be printed to terminal!
It would be great to have some buttons in C-v mode to "y, p, x" ... and maybe you could (ab)-use %/* while in visual mode to allow rotation or flipping?
Also if you every played "adom" using "w<motion.hjkl>" could "word-ish" to the next color in that direction. I don't know how much you're still messing with it, but it's a fun problem to think about... transferring useful Vi motions and commands into a new problem domain.
I see this to be hugely practical. It will enable rapid charting in source code documentation, and also, solve the table formatting problem once and for all.
Edit: shapes? Patterns? Gradients? Dithering? (Think about cacao) lasso tool? Semantic movement? Like, w moves over all reddish blocks
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40
Also I love the idea of semantic movement, I'll definitely put it on my feature-list!
Even if we go with monochrome charts, it will be super useful for describing data structures and visualizing algorithms.
Also, looking forward to the semantic movement implementation!
Relevant xkcd -- [https://xkcd.com/378/]
Jokes aside, maybe you can use that for inspiration :)
I'm wondering if artist-mode can be used as a minor mode? Charts everywhere :)
http://github.com/eliukblau/pixterm
https://codepen.io/fenwick/full/oGVQNX/
Love it!
Cool idea to use %/* (or similar) to rotate/flip stuff! I only thought about replacing a certain color with another using %s/