asciiIcons

Convert Ascii art images to Scalable Icons

#Ascii to Icon Based on a post Replacing Photoshop With NSString seen on HN. I reccomend you read that post first. This takes the idea and extends it in javascript to provide the ctx.drawIcon(text,x,y,w) method.

I have extended the initial ruleset so that at larger sizes simpler ascii arts can be used. The rules are:

1. Symbols are 0--9 a--b A--Z
2. Single symbol for dot
3. Two of symbol for line
4. Many of symbol of circle
5. Run of symbols for shape:
6. Lowercase are stroked closed paths
7. Uppercase are stroked and filled closed paths
8. Runs starting with a number are stroked open paths

Here is an interactive space you can tryout.