30 replies to this topic

[Jax9123]

Now wouldn't this be awesome, to make pixels smaller! cause i mean this can create many things such as better programs, better games, and better features such as making a T.v with only 4 square monitors!! this will be a big difference to me and my ideas if this can be implemented into computercraft />

[casr144]

That would be pretty cool but isn't one pixel currently equal to one character space? I'm just guessing but I think that it would be kinda difficult to make smaller pixels this way. Still a cool suggestion and it would be great to see it implemented in the mod !

[PixelToast]

would be nice for games +1

[Cloudy]

Use a monitor at max size with 0.5 size - should give you plenty of characters.

[Jax9123]

casr144, on 22 October 2012 - 07:28 PM, said:

That would be pretty cool but isn't one pixel currently equal to one character space? I'm just guessing but I think that it would be kinda difficult to make smaller pixels this way. Still a cool suggestion and it would be great to see it implemented in the mod !

well,hoping that the paintutils.drawPixel will be changed to like paintutils.drawPixel(x,y,[color],size)

Cloudy, on 22 October 2012 - 07:50 PM, said:

Use a monitor at max size with 0.5 size - should give you plenty of characters.

what about computers />

[Cloudy]

I don't think we will allow smaller text sizes. Anything could happen though.

[aNemia1981]

Maybe just a tine bit smaller textScale option (0.25?) and config option for max monitor size? Bad idea?, but look at the kitty!

[Cranium]

The problem I foresee is lag. With minimum text scale, maximum monitor size, and fast refresh rate, drawing pixels in the screen can already cut my laptop from 30fps to 2fps. Making it any smaller would just cause more lag.

[aNemia1981]

Cranium, on 27 January 2013 - 08:14 AM, said:

The problem I foresee is lag. With minimum text scale, maximum monitor size, and fast refresh rate, drawing pixels in the screen can already cut my laptop from 30fps to 2fps. Making it any smaller would just cause more lag.

I totally agree on the lag part if refreshing it constantly (example ascii movies) but for single ascii art display it would be great option (maybe just a conf setting) For this use i haven't noticed any lag. It takes 0.1 sec to draw 160x80 colored "image" (i use text, not paint api).

[lieudusty]

aNemia1981, on 27 January 2013 - 01:21 AM, said:

Maybe just a tine bit smaller textScale option (0.25?) and config option for max monitor size? Bad idea?, but look at the kitty!

Offtopic but how did you make that picture?

[aNemia1981]

save image using 16 color palette--> made a own prog that read the pixel info and turns it into txt file where white=00...black=15, one line of codepairs is one line of pixels (don't know how to make it in lua...yet) --> in cc it reads 2 chars at time, changes the background color and writes one " " space. Must be easier way, but im still making my learning steps =)

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[Cloudy]

You can do stuff like that and yet you still want more pixels? o.O

[Cranium]

aNemia1981, on 27 January 2013 - 10:45 AM, said:

save image using 16 color palette--> made a own prog that read the pixel info and turns it into txt file where white=00...black=15, one line of codepairs is one line of pixels (don't know how to make it in lua...yet) --> in cc it reads 2 chars at time, changes the background color and writes one " " space. Must be easier way, but im still making my learning steps =)

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http://an3mia.net/mc/force.png

please share that code with us....

[aNemia1981]

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please share that code with us....

i cleaned it up a bit (some not so important lines still in). Its kinda my first real program so...try to bare it.

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---ASCII printer v0.21----------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------	aNemia1981	-------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
function convertCode()
--------------------------------------------------
if codePair=="00" then code = 1
elseif codePair=="01" then code = 2
elseif codePair=="02" then code = 4
elseif codePair=="03" then code = 8
elseif codePair=="04" then code = 16
elseif codePair=="05" then code = 32
elseif codePair=="06" then code = 64
elseif codePair=="07" then code = 128
elseif codePair=="08" then code = 256
elseif codePair=="09" then code = 512
elseif codePair=="10" then code = 1024
elseif codePair=="11" then code = 2048
elseif codePair=="12" then code = 4096
elseif codePair=="13" then code = 8192
elseif codePair=="14" then code = 16384
elseif codePair=="15" then code = 32768
end
end
--------------------------------------------------
---Wrap monitor and get dimensions
--------------------------------------------------
monitor = peripheral.wrap("left")
monitor.setTextScale(0.5)
local width, height = monitor.getSize()
local centerX = math.floor(width/2)
local centerY = math.floor(height/2)
print("debug: monitor wrapped")
print("debug: "..width.."x"..height)
print("debug: "..centerX.."/"..centerY)
--------------------------------------------------
function input()
--------------------------------------------------
print("############################")
print("filename/list/clean: ")
image = read()
if image=="clean" then
clearWipe()
input()
elseif image=="list" then
shell.run("ls ccf/")
input()
else
readSize()
drawImage()
input()
end
end
--------------------------------------------------
function readSize()
--------------------------------------------------
file = fs.open("ccf/"..image..".txt","r")
print("debug: "..image.." loaded")
line = file.readLine()
imageWidth = string.len(line)/2
print("debug: "..imageWidth.." image width")
i = 0
   while file.readLine() do
   i = i + 1
   end
imageHeight = i
print("debug: "..imageHeight.." image height")
drawPointX = math.floor((width-imageWidth)/2)
drawPointY = math.floor((height-imageHeight)/2)
   if drawPointY<1 then
   drawPointy = 1
   else
   end
print("debug: "..drawPointX..","..drawPointY.." is upperleft point")
file.close()
end
--------------------------------------------------
function drawImage()
--------------------------------------------------
clearWipe()
file = fs.open("ccf/"..image..".txt","r")
monitor.setCursorPos(drawPointX,drawPointY)
monitor.setBackgroundColor(32768)
monitor.setTextColor(1)
term.setTextColor(1)
for l = 1, imageHeight do
   line = file.readLine()
	  for x = 1, imageWidth*2, 2 do
	  codePair = string.sub(line, x, x+1)
		   convertCode()
		   monitor.setBackgroundColor(code)
		   monitor.setTextColor(code)
		   monitor.write(" ")
	  end

   drawPointY=drawPointY+1
   sleep(0.01)
   monitor.setCursorPos(drawPointX,drawPointY)
   end
file.close()
end

--------------------------------------------------
function clearWipe()
--------------------------------------------------
for i = 1, height do
monitor.setCursorPos(1,i)
monitor.setBackgroundColor(32768)
monitor.write(string.rep(" ", width))
sleep(0.1)
end
end
--------------------------------------------------
input()
--------------------------------------------------

my pixel2txt program is actually made with program called "Neobook". Its kinda like multimedia kiosk maker but has some scripting capabilities and get the work done =) Until i learn this lua stuff better.

edit: http://an3mia.net/mc/ccf.rar here is some image text files if you want to check those in-game (just extract in your computer root) Use max-sized monitor thou...

[Pinkishu]

the thing i'm more interested in is actual pixels; its annoying that width and height aren't equal
now ofc that doesn'T work too well with how CC does text/pixels

[AnthonyD98™]

lieudusty, on 27 January 2013 - 10:09 AM, said:

aNemia1981, on 27 January 2013 - 01:21 AM, said:

Maybe just a tine bit smaller textScale option (0.25?) and config option for max monitor size? Bad idea?, but look at the kitty!

Offtopic but how did you make that picture?

Wow nice!

[tesla1889]

Cloudy, on 27 January 2013 - 11:57 AM, said:

You can do stuff like that and yet you still want more pixels? o.O

my thoughts exactly

[Cruor]

When in doubt, use CCLights! http://puu.sh/1M4k6
I realy should stop throwing that picture everywhere...

And that is honestly some amazing stuff with the limited monitor scale o_O

[BigSHinyToys]

I think a pixel mode that can be set on a monitor that means you cant print text to it only pixels the up side being square pixels.

something like

term.pixelMode()
local scrX,scrY = term.getSize()
for x = 1,scrX do
for y = 1,scrY do
term.setPixel(x,y,colors.white)
end
end

[1029chris]

maybe diamond monitor could have this?