#+author: Benjamin Chausse <benjamin@chausse.xyz>

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* VimLogo - ANSI

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  This is a small terminal program that prints the Vim logo in using ANSI escape codes.
  It utilizes the fact that terminal fonts have a heightxwith ratio of 2x1 combined with
  the ~▀~ character that covers the top half of a character.

  Since terminals can set a different foreground and background color for each character,
  we can essentially draw 2 vertically stacked pixels per character.

  This is where ANSI escape codes come in. If your terminal supports 24-bit colors, you can
  set foregrounds and background to any rgb value:

  - ~\033[38;2;22;33;44m~ sets the foreground color to rgb(22, 33, 44)
  - ~\033[48;2;44;55;66m~ sets the background color to rgb(44, 55, 66)

  [[https://gist.github.com/fnky/458719343aabd01cfb17a3a4f7296797#file-ansi-md][This github gist]] was an invaluable resource for gaining a deeper
  understanding of ANSI escape codes and how to use them to draw graphics in
  the terminal. I highly recommend checking it out if you're interested in
  learning more about this topic.

** So why the Vim logo?

   Well, the idea to do this came to me as I was browsing the vim subreddit
   (as one does) and saw [[https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1e5o998/if_were_sharing_vim_pixel_art][this post]] by ~u/fapperruning~ where he drew
   the vim logo with pixel art. The size was small enough it could nicely fit
   in a terminal window, though big enough it was not feasible to draw by hand.

   So using this as a starting point, I searched for a way to parse the image
   and found [[https://www.piskelapp.com/p/create/sprite][Piskel]]. The amazing thing about Piskel is that it allows you to export
   a sprite as a big integer array written in a C file. The first thing I did was to
   downscale ~u/fapperruning~'s image so that 1 pixel = 1 square in the sprite.
   I the slightly modified Piskel's C file output so that it corresponds to a Go slice
   of 32-bit unsigned integers.


   So if you want, this code really doesn't have to be about the Vim logo. Just give it
   any slice of 32-bit integers (as well as the width and height of the image) and it will
   spit it out on your glorious terminal.

   In the end, this is how it came out:

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   *Note*: Your terminal must be able to display [[https://gist.github.com/fnky/458719343aabd01cfb17a3a4f7296797#rgb-colors][true colors]] if you want to try/use this.

** How to build

   First, you must have Go installed (duh)...

   Once that's done, just clone the repo, ~cd~ into it and run:

   #+begin_src sh
   go build -o vimlogo-ansi *.go
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