$ show Kirilllive/ASCII_Art_Paint
ASCII Art Paint is a fully client-side web application for creating and editing ASCII art. It runs entirely in the browser with no backend or dependencies. The application provides a canvas grid of cells (each holding a character), a palette of symbols, drawing tools (pencil, eraser, fill, pipette, selection), undo/redo, and drag-and-drop file loading. It also includes image-to-ASCII conversion (including Braille mode), custom font loading, and a built-in text editor. The UI supports dark/light themes and canvas zoom. The application is implemented as a single HTML file with embedded CSS and JavaScript, making it portable and easy to host. While the code is monolithic and lacks formal tests, it demonstrates competent use of native browser APIs for a niche creative tool.
The LLM identified 2 files worth highlighting for reuse:
The `img_to_ascii`, `convertToGrayScales`, `getCharacterForGrayScale`, and `drawAscii` functions implement a clean, self-contained image-to-ASCII conversion pipeline. They take an image, convert to grayscale using luminance weights, map each pixel to a character from a configurable palette, and render the result onto the editor grid. This module is reusable in any web project requiring ASCII art generation from images, with minimal dependency on the rest of the application (only requires a DOM canvas and a palette string).
The `state_save`, `state_back` (undo/redo) functions implement a simple but effective undo stack. Each state is a plain text string of the canvas content. The stack is capped at 100 entries. This pattern is generic and can be extracted for any editor-like web application that needs undo/redo, requiring only a mechanism to serialize and deserialize state.