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Products that do what A paint and ASCII art tool in the terminal does

1BT
Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript▲305
2015 · github.com
2IB
I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images▲296
2021 · github.com
3AA
ASCII Art with Overstrike▲77
2019 · github.com
4MA
Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141
2015 · monodraw.com
5AS
A stream of AI-generated art▲277
2020 · art42.net
6AP
ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal▲9
feast your eyes
May 2026 · github.com
7AN
A Native Art Gallery for the Mac▲146
2018 · archagon.net
8SD
Symmetrical Drawing Tool for Doodling▲115
2021 · aliciaunderhill.xyz
9AO
An online drawing tool that lets you change colors via MIDI controller▲53
2020 · h3nk.com
10FA
Free and open-source home for art made with code▲144
2018 · shadergif.com
11TI
Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII▲114
2016 · github.com
12AA
Asciimatics: a cross-platform terminal animation/drawing library▲21
2016 · github.com
13TA
Tinkersynth, a whimsical generative art machine▲105
2019 · tinkersynth.com
14IP
Isometric Painting Tool▲43
2015 · jomo.tv
15IW
I wrote a rust program to translate images into textual line art▲70
2021 · github.com
16AT
A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects▲13
2020 · github.com
17AC
A Collaborative Art Canvas (experimental)▲24
2013 · wefiddle.herokuapp.com
18BA
Beautiful and interactive Unicode plotting for the terminal▲5
2021 · github.com
19IW
Interactive Wallpaper animated art tool (symmetry groups)▲64
2018 · coloring-book.co
20AO
An old terminal HTML template▲74
2019 · github.com
21GT
GIF to ASCII Art▲9
2023 · gifcii.fun
22AM
Artwork made with Common Lisp, with source code▲6
2015 · burtonsamograd.deviantart.com
23AA
ASCII Animals in Your Terminal▲62
2012 · ivolo.me
24PA
Primrose – A text editor that draws to Canvas▲49
2015 · capnmidnight.github.io

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