Ascii_tree
Dev tools
diagram generator
SHOW HN2019
79points
23comments
#597of 2,195 in 2019
Top 28%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Pleasing, beautiful tree output
From 2 comments
This is very pleasing to me.
tbrock on HNBeautiful! This will be wonderfully useful for https://algodaily.com
sciencewolf on HN
Objections
ASCII art is outdated; Unicode box drawing would look better
From 2 comments
I think that with all the unicodes lying around these days we can do a little nicer: ``` ┌───┐ ┌─────┤ 1 ├─────┐ │ └───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┤ 2 ├─┐ ┌─┤ 3 ├─┐ │ └───┘ │ │ └───┘ │…
kps on HNI wish ASCII art would just die. This still looks lousy to me, and now also reminds me that we're trying to draw diagrams by emulating 1980's-era technology. You don't see people…
ken on HN
Output lacks centering and wraps in terminals for large trees
From 2 comments
The lack of centering is itching my ocd.
baalimago on HNHonestly, I was hoping for something like the `tree` command. I've implemented that algorithm before, but it was painful and not portable. These trees are definitely cooler and…
cbarrick on HN
Requests
Support Unicode box-drawing characters
From 1 comment
I think that with all the unicodes lying around these days we can do a little nicer: ``` ┌───┐ ┌─────┤ 1 ├─────┐ │ └───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┤ 2 ├─┐ ┌─┤ 3 ├─┐ │ └───┘ │ │ └───┘ │…
kps on HN
Output for ditaa or Markdeep
From 2 comments
Cool! With some minor alterations you could add support for ditaa output [1]. That would allow you to convert the trees to PNGs. [1] http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
octopoc on HNCool! Maybe a useful feature request: make the output compatible with Markdeep? https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ I tried Ascii_tree with this online Markdeep demo:…
dahart on HN
Alternatives named
Unix tree command
From 1 comment
Honestly, I was hoping for something like the `tree` command. I've implemented that algorithm before, but it was painful and not portable. These trees are definitely cooler and…
cbarrick on HN
Graphviz DOT
From 2 comments
Honestly, I was hoping for something like the `tree` command. I've implemented that algorithm before, but it was painful and not portable. These trees are definitely cooler and…
cbarrick on HNDOT is fantastic, and trivial to output, highly recommend it
shpongled on HN
tree-graph-generator
From 1 comment
I have a tool that does a similar thing: https://github.com/EFanZh/tree-graph-generator Demo: https://efanzh.org/tree-graph-generator/ But it doesn’t have a good front end yet.
EFanZh on HN