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Diagon – Interactive ASCII art diagram generators

83 pointsby lervagover 3 years ago

7 comments

dspillettover 3 years ago
Nice. I&#x27;ve seen similar tools for small subsets of what this is doing, but it&#x27;ll be useful to have a set of utilities like this done well in one place.<p>---<p>One thing I&#x27;ve wanted for ages (and might like to write but will likely never find time) is something that does drawio&#x2F;viso-like diagram manipulation but works in ASCII&#x2F;Unicode, defaults to text output, and maintains limits (forcing the grid granularity and sufficient spacing for connectors) to make that practical even if offering a more “graphical” output and edit experience.<p>I&#x27;ve seen a few tools that let you draw diagrams in ASCII&#x2F;unicode but they have all been more akin to paint than drawio, in that you can&#x27;t edit objects or move them around after placing, and have connectors &amp; such reflow.<p>It would be useful for dropping diagrams into otherwise text-only media (flow and table diagrams in readme files, adding table diagrams on dba.stackoverflow without needing to instead link to a graphic or edit more by hand, ...) while allowing a prettier output (as SVG or a bitmap) for where that is relevant. If anyone knows of such a tool I&#x27;ve missed that they can point me to, or wants to go away and write one for me, please do!
sbukover 3 years ago
The best app I know of for this is Monodraw (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monodraw.helftone.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monodraw.helftone.com&#x2F;</a>)
productivepizzaover 3 years ago
I&#x27;ve searched for something like this before. I was looking to create diagrams in a markdown file. I found mermaid was a better option in that specific case. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mermaid-js.github.io&#x2F;mermaid&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mermaid-js.github.io&#x2F;mermaid&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a>
wodenokotoover 3 years ago
Can it reverse engineer a diagram?<p>It would be kinda neat to store only the output in, say, a readme file or whatever, and not have to have a second file with the input.
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taubekover 3 years ago
This looks really cool. To me personally graphs look the best with &quot;ASCII only&quot; option turned on.
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nchaseover 3 years ago
I feel like this is something I have been looking for for years.
ChrisArchitectover 3 years ago
Is this from (2018)?
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