Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng) Attached: 1 image Good Morning & welcome to #HowToThing #004 — Painlessly creating text-based plots to debug & visualize sequential data in a REPL-driven workflow. Here we're using https://thi.ng/dsp signal generators, but _any_ numeric array or iterable will work. Visualization via https://thi.ng/text-canvas (new versions of both packages have just been released...) Source code: https://gist.github.com/postspectacular/66d6b7c19612196c87cead5a6afd681d #ThingUmbrella #TypeScript #JavaScript #AsciiArt #DataViz #DSP #Tutorial

One from the archives for #TextmodeTuesday. The post might be 3 years old, but I'm still using these snippets almost daily to visualize and debug data whilst I'm working in the Node REPL...

https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/110942967462856117

#ThingUmbrella #DataViz #REPL #Terminal

Screenshot of a proportional text-based typeface, with each character made up of box-drawing characters to create gradients within each letter form.

Screenshot of a proportional text-based typeface, with each character made up of box-drawing characters to create gradients within each letter form.

Some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:

Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/

Font sources (the lines below the characters are kerning pairs) […]

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