PyDPainter, pronounced "Pied Painter" (like Pied Piper), is an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame. The original inspiration came from the Commodore Amiga version of Deluxe Paint released by Electronic Arts in 1985. Back then, Deluxe Paint helped define the user interface of a paint program with tool bars, menus, and the novel use of left and right mouse buttons for painting and erasing. After pixel art gave way to photo-realism and high-resolution 24 bit color, Deluxe Paint was largely forgotten for artistic work -- left behind in the ever-progressing march of technology.
Recently, with a resurgence of all things "retro," low-resolution pixel art and limited color palettes have become popular once again. Many tools to deal with this medium are either too complicated or too crude. This project is an attempt to bring back an old but reliable tool and enhance it with some features to help it better coexist in the modern world.
We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.
⁂ is a typographical character, not an icon that needs to be inserted as an image. Unique-looking, but standardised. This means it’s very easy to copy-paste around! Its design style also automatically adapts to the font used where you insert it.
⁂ is called an asterism. In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations. We suggest that it’s a very fitting symbol for the fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected spaces which is decentralised and has an astronomically-themed name. It represents several stars coming together, connecting but each their own, without a centre.
⁂ is standardised as Unicode U+2042, making it ready to copy and insert anywhere.
There is also a downloadable graphics pack.
TerminalTextEffects (TTE) is a terminal visual effects engine. TTE can be installed as a system application to produce effects in your terminal, or as a Python library to enable effects within your Python scripts/applications. TTE includes a growing library of built-in effects which showcase the engine's features.
There is a showroom with animated gifs that shows what they all look like: https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/showroom/
ImagiFix is a robust photo editing web application built using HTML, CSS, the Canvas API, and vanilla JavaScript.The application is designed to work offline as a Progressive Web App (PWA), enhancing its usability and accessibility. Apply different filters to your images, including brightness, saturation, contrast, blur, inversion, and opacity. Crop, rotate, flip, images. Add text. This application is built using pure JavaScript, without the use of any libraries or frameworks.This approach demonstrates the power and flexibility of Vanilla JS in creating complex applications.
No build process, just check it out and serve it.
The A2 VidGA is a super handy, wide-support VGA output card for your Apple ][, ][+ and //e computer!
The Apple II’s composite video output is not exactly standard. Some newer monitors don’t like it, and old CRTs can be inconvenient. The A2 VidGA card solves that problem! The A2 VidGA includes a standard VGA output port, but with a twist. With a simple modification (which you can do yourself, or purchase pre-installed) you can separate the VGA port and attach it to the rear panel of your Apple II – no weird adapters to purchase. It’s an all-in-one solution!
Based on the original Apple II VGA project by Mark Aikens and the update by Vince Briel, our version aims to be the most cost-effective pre-assembled version on the market.
To help people who want to repair their vintage IBM EGA cards, I've put together this reference schematic and layout. The schematic is closely modeled after the schematic in the IBM technical reference material but with mistakes corrected and more information added. The PCB layout is closely matched to the original card. Using KiCad, you can click on a component on the schematic and it will automatically highlight it in the layout, so it's perfect if you need to probe pins with a scope, logic analyzer, or even just a multimeter.
You might be excited about fabricating this board so you can have your very own clone of the EGA card, but unless you have the full set of custom chips, the board will be useless.
A text-mode art editor inspired by MS Paint. It is itself a text-mode application, no desktop environment required. Can edit ANSI graphics, plain text, some SVG files, HTML, and other file formats.
This project is a VGA card for Apple II computers to ouput a crisp RGB signal to a VGA monitor instead of having to rely on the composite output. This is accomplished by snooping the 6502 bus and creating a shadow copy of the video memory within a Raspberry Pi Pico, then processing the raw video memory contents to output a "perfect" signal.
- Generates a 640x480@60 VGA signal with 3 bits per color channel using resistor DACs
- Text mode (monochrome)
- Lo-res mode with no color fringing between the chunky pixels
- Double Lo-res mode (Apple IIe only)
- Hi-res mode with simulated NTSC artifact color
- Double Hi-res mode (Apple IIe only)
- Mixed lo-res and hi-res modes with monochrome text and no color fringing
- 80 Columms text support (Apple IIe only)
This is a pair of PCBs that implements a version of the Apple II VGA design. Please see the Apple II VGA Project for details and firmware. This version differs from the original in that:
- It makes use of the Rpi Pico's regulator for 3v3 supply
- It allows the SYNC signal to be optionally routed to the Rpi Pico (instead of allowing Apple II bus read operations)
- It uses a fourth 74LVC245A instead of a 74LS07 for the remaining bus signals (fewer unique components)
pyglet is a powerful, yet easy to use Python library for developing games and other visually-rich applications on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It supports windowing, user interface event handling, Joysticks, OpenGL graphics, loading images and videos, and playing sounds and music. All of this with a friendly Pythonic API, that's simple to learn and doesn't get in your way.
Github: https://github.com/pyglet/pyglet
FREETONE by Stuart Semple contains 1280 colours including digital versions of his Pinkest Pink, Incredibly Kelinish Blue, Black 3.0 and TIFF.
A SIMPLE & TOTALLY FREE COLOUR PALETTE PLUGIN FOR ADOBE
That unlocks a whole books worth of very Pantone-ish colours.
1280 Liberated colours are extremely Pantoneish and reminiscent of those found in the most iconic colour book of all time. In fact it's been argued that they are indistinguishable from those behind the Adobe paywall.
Cost: Nothing. Click through the cart and you don't have to pay (unless you want to leave a tip).
Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot. Something that would resurface in an article years later.
Movies parodied:
- The Matrix (twice)
- Blade
- Hackers
- Star Wars
A library of handcrafted vector linework for cartography, each designed in a unique aesthetic style. They are meant to break us away from default line paths that we so often rely on by providing more visually-interesting alternatives.
Available in Shapefile, GeoJSON, and Adobe Illustrator formats.
An AI assisted utility in which you scribble over something you want removed from an image, and it extrapolates and knits the surrounding background over it. CUDA enabled. Works with high resolution images just as well as boring ones. Multi-stroke support.
Handcrafted 3D Icons, Fully Customizable Online. Free for commercial and personal use.