Posts tagged art

Ascension 2.0 alpha | beta

Progress is great if you share it with others, so I’m announcing the Ascension 2.0 public alpha | beta program today. 

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We finally managed to finish a project we’ve been busy working on during the last weeks. It is so great as stand-alone *NIX command line utility and it will also be an important part of my upcoming AnsiLove.framework release 2.0. Feel free to try, investigate, fork, improve, whatever. We released it under a MIT-style license. Like it’s PHP ancestor, AnsiLove/C will convert ANSi and artscene related file formats into beautiful PNG images. But this time, our goals were evolution, portability, performance and the most accurate rendering of all known ANSi art file types to date. Needless to say we achieved them all. At this point I’d like to thank my friends Frederic Cambus and Brian Cassidy for their ongoing support. Without you, AnsiLove/C would never have been possible. This project grew so fast because we loved what we did. Pour la legende! AnsiLove/C - ANSi / ASCII art to PNG converter in C

We finally managed to finish a project we’ve been busy working on during the last weeks. It is so great as stand-alone *NIX command line utility and it will also be an important part of my upcoming AnsiLove.framework release 2.0. Feel free to try, investigate, fork, improve, whatever. We released it under a MIT-style license. Like it’s PHP ancestor, AnsiLove/C will convert ANSi and artscene related file formats into beautiful PNG images. But this time, our goals were evolution, portability, performance and the most accurate rendering of all known ANSi art file types to date. Needless to say we achieved them all. At this point I’d like to thank my friends Frederic Cambus and Brian Cassidy for their ongoing support. Without you, AnsiLove/C would never have been possible. This project grew so fast because we loved what we did. Pour la legende!

AnsiLove/C - ANSi / ASCII art to PNG converter in C

AnsiLove.framework

Today I want to introduce you to what I’ve been coding recently. Here is a Cocoa framework for rendering ANSi art, and it’s called the AnsiLove.framework. It uses a modified version of Frederic Cambus’ awesome AnsiLove as library, creating PNG images from ANSi source files.

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Ascension roadmap

We know Ascension is already great in displaying ASCII art on the Mac. Let’s talk about some of the key features I’m planning for upcoming Ascension releases. 

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Ascension 1.0.3

Ascension 1.0.3 has been released today. You could describe this as a bugfix release, nearly no new features were added. The current build is not beta anymore, I wiped the last issues I encountered and Ascension should run smooth and stable. 

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Ascension 1.0.1 beta 2 is released

I managed to do things even better and released Ascension 1.0.1 beta 2 today. You won’t recognize it at a first glance, but a lot has changed under the hood, thanks to your reports and overwhelming feedback. I’m quite sure the goal of creating the best ASCII art / NFO viewer (and editor) for Mac OS X is already reached. Unfortunately I did neither find time yet to create a project page nor to publish a gallery, but a recent screenshot can be found here. A project page will be available soon.

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Ascension 1.0.0 beta1 is out!

My ASCII Art viewer and editor for Mac has finally been released. For now Ascension supports NFO, DIZ and TXT files. Of course it can handle Unicode documents. Follow the link to browse the repository and get the beta. I will update my project site here as soon as possible. Let me know if anything is not working as expected.