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|    Tavis Ormandy to Eli the Bearded    |
|    Re: more braille art (not mine)    |
|    22 Jun 21 19:14:42    |
      From: taviso@gmail.com              On 2021-06-22, Eli the Bearded wrote:       > I've seen software to rotate ASCII art 90 or 180 degrees, I'd have to       > hunt pretty hard to find it again I think. But I can imagine a program       > to transcode ASCII art to braille as well. I don't think it would work       > as neatly as a hand done translation though.              I don't know about any program, but the library libcaca can do it, there       are functions like caca_rotate_180(). It chooses replacement characters       that look (kinda) similar to a mirrored/rotated version of the original.              It works pretty well for things like boxes and flowcharts, but mixed       results for everything else :)              Tavis.              --        _o) $ lynx lock.cmpxchg8b.com        /\\ _o) _o) $ finger taviso@sdf.org       _\_V _( ) _( ) @taviso              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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