Show HN: A dot matrix rendered using Braille characters

Re:Show HN: A dot matrix rendered using Braille characters by timfi on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:53PM (#28202114)

Very nice! I was thinking of adding something akin to this as well, at least in terms of image dithering. :)

But I'm still torn as the well behaved python programmer in me wants to add pillow as a dependency for that and the not so well behaved one wants *0* dependencies. I think I'll add it as an extra-dep when get around to it.

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Re:Show HN: A dot matrix rendered using Braille characters by Cyberdog on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:07PM (#28202269)

Yeah, I get it - I made a point of building this with no jQuery or other JS dependencies just for more experience in writing "pure" vanilla JS. But of course one of the ways I can get away with that is that the browser already gives me a huge "standard library" of sorts for doing hard things like reading compressed image formats…

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Re:Show HN: A dot matrix rendered using Braille characters by timfi on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:10PM (#28202296)

Though python has a massive set of "included batteries", simple images aren't included in those. This makes me very sad sometimes and I usually just fall back to simple BMP files... :/

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