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aanetyesterday at 12:49 PM3 repliesview on HN

Looks fab. Great design.

Can it make polygons? Basically, shapes other than rectangles? If so, how? (maybe I missed it?)


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bargainbinyesterday at 1:26 PM

Not the author but I'm making a similar tool currently, and the reality is no because of the nature of it being character based.

You can theoretically have "artistic" polygons where it renders using a mixture of characters to emulate how that grid would be filled if a certain shaped was laid over it but the end result wouldn't be very functional for the purposes of diagramming.

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baalimagoyesterday at 1:29 PM

It's not an ascii renderer, but a ascii diagram drawing tool