Projects

Asciiblast

ASCII art based vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up game. Written in Python using curses for those lovely text based graphics.

Z-Day

A simple roguelike game about killing zombies, written for the Seven Days Roguelike Contest.

asciirovio

A text mode console application for controlling the WowWee Rovio mobile webcam robot. Video feed is converted to ASCII, and drive commands are issued from the keyboard. Rovio works just fine with Linux because it's controls are browser based. I did think it would be quite amusing though to ... [More] have a special console interface to the Rovio, naturally text based and running in a terminal. Since the idea of it amused me so, I went ahead and made one. Because I like free software I'll provide it here to the world. RequirementsPython 2.5 -- I just used what's in the Ubuntu repos jp2a -- required for ascii video, from Ubuntu repo VLC -- optional, again from Ubuntu repo Obligatory Screenshot Note This is one of a few projects I'm fiddling with in my spare time. As such, updates may (will) be few and far between. For notifications check back, or (for now) use the Updates Feed. [Less]

ascii2xml

I wont to learn Python I searched for a little project for me. So I decided to an ASCII 2 XML parser which can search in the ASCII File for a pattern and parse it to a xml file which is described in a xml pattern file. Thanks to Wingware IDE for the free professional enviroment for open source developer!!! (http://wingware.com)

spinmob

IntroductionSpinmob is a scientific data analysis and plotting package I wrote during graduate school to move past expensive, buggy, poorly-documented programs like Origin, weaker programs like Excel, and fancy programs with a clunky environment like Matlab (which also gave me some trouble). The ... [More] main features are forgiving and user-friendly data class for importing and crunching a wide variety of ASCII data files heaps of higher-level automated plotting functionality based on matplotlib interactive fitting routines based on scipy and freedom and open-sourcenessdom. Plus I threw in a bunch of random functions I found useful in dealing with strings and data. The documentation is growing but basically the use of PyShell takes care of documentation automatically through auto-completion and suggestions, and I've written the library as not-too-complicated tree to allow users to navigate and learn the library from the command line. I started writing this thing ca 2003 and by the end of grad school this library (plus Inkscape) was all I needed to go from raw data files to publication-quality figures. I recently made the nerd-leap to Linux and decided (while importing my code) to clean it up and convert it to a generalized python module. Enjoy! FeaturesBuilt around wxpython and pycrust or pyshell (for their amazing code-completion) Plots generated with matplotlib (shiny, publication-quality) Line plots: analyze and plot many data files at once Color/Image plots: analyze and plot a data file as an image Control the colorbar with a simple GUI Flexible data class for importing/saving in ASCII data files Automatically recognizes header data and columns of data Information is transparent and easily accessible Generate new columns of data with a simple scripting interface Can handle and plot matrices Interactive fitting routines with error analysis Scores of little helper functions to manipulate strings, files, data, and plots RequirementsEnthought python distribution (free for academic use) Or download the individual packages: Python 2.6 numpy & scipy, matplotlib-0.99.1 wxPython (use pyshell!) The current version has been tested on Linux and Windows XP, but should also work in OSX. Click here to get started. Other Recommended SoftwarePyScripter is an awesome coding environment for windows. Shameless Plugs That Don't Even Make Me Any MoneyRSSFilter is a good way to keep up with scientific articles. ChessNuts is a nice way to play any variation of chess you can think of with friends. [Less]

pyascii

Project contains two files: Python script Configuration file Python script has one input parameter that is the filename of the image.

letter-monster

- Letter-Monster is an open, layer-based, text rendering engine. Check page About. -

Python Unidecode

It often happens that you have text data in Unicode, but you need to represent it in ASCII. In most of these examples you could represent Unicode characters as "???" or "\15BA\15A0\1610", to mention two extreme cases. But that's nearly useless to someone who actually wants ... [More] to read what the text says. What Unidecode provides is a middle road: function unidecode() takes Unicode data and tries to represent it in ASCII characters (i.e., the universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F), where the compromises taken when mapping between two character sets are chosen to be near what a human with a US keyboard would choose. [Less]