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Nice! The banner generator uses figlet fonts and there is a javascript parser out there, check out http://github.com/scottgonzalez/figlet-js

Also speaking of which I created a canvas breakout game that uses a modified version of that lib a month ago - https://github.com/jarv/ascii-breakout (http://ascii-breakout.com if you want to see it in action)

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very cool! Impressed that you could get that working like that. Quite fun too.

On a side note. I wonder if you would like to somehow port http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ to javascript.

Since many technical diagrams are done in ascii. It might actually be handy to auto convert to a Canvas image.

Not sure how one would deal with ascii-art to canvas however. But technical drawings is important.

It would be relatively simple to do, I'm surprised that http://asciiflow.com/ doesn't have an option for it, but now that I think about it a little more I think most people create these ascii diagrams because they just want ascii for embedding in a text doc and probably? don't need to convert them.

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