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REXPaint is an ASCII art editor from Grid Sage Games for creating ANSI block and line art, roguelike mockups and maps, and UI layouts. It offers separate editing of characters, foreground, and background colors, shape and text tools, layers, palette manipulation, a true-color picker, custom fonts and tilesets, and export to PNG and other formats. It is Windows-only and was originally an in-house development tool.
Tabletop RPG Map editor II is a map editor by Deepnight Games for Windows, also available as a browser HTML5 version. Maps use generic shapes rather than specific objects. It supports maps generated by One Page Dungeon, diagonal and cavern walls, and raycasted lighting. The project is in an Alpha phase, and the desktop version is recommended for file management. It is offered as pay what you want, including free.
Smart Dock is a desktop mode launcher for Android described as user-friendly and customizable. It lists customizable icons, colors, shapes and sounds, multi window support, keyboard shortcuts, and support for desktop and tablet layouts. The listing states compatibility with Android versions since Nougat and no root required, while version 1.15.0 requires Android 11 or newer.
SpookyGhost is an open source tool by Encelo for creating procedural animations for sprites. It animates properties such as size, rotation, position and color, and allows users to deform sprite shapes. Lua scripts can be written for custom animations, and results can be exported as single frames or a spritesheet. Native versions are available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
A free online tool for creating blocky, 8-bit-style avatars and square face icons. Users customize face shape, eyes, mouth, colors, hairstyles and accessories in the browser, then export high-resolution PNG files. The tool runs locally on the device, and a login is not required.
SVGo is a Go language library for SVG generation. It supports common SVG elements including shapes, lines, text, paths, images, and gradients, and is hosted as an open-source project on GitHub.
TensorFlow Fold is a library for creating TensorFlow models that consume structured data, where the computation graph depends on the structure of the input data. It implements dynamic batching, transforming batches of arbitrarily shaped computation graphs into a static computation graph. TensorFlow Fold is not an official Google product.
TextPaint is an online tool for drawing with text. Users draw, shape and decorate a canvas using ASCII, Unicode, emojis or other characters. The sidebar offers a pencil, paint bucket, text input, select area, character picker, find and replace, line drawing and image-to-ASCII conversion. Artwork can be flipped, rotated, shifted and exported as a text file, HTML or a JavaScript string. It is free and requires no signup.
A step-by-step guide to fragment shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe. It covers topics such as shaping functions, colors, shapes, matrices, patterns, noise, fractals, image processing and 3D graphics, with examples and a glossary. It is available in several languages, including English.
The Story of AI Winters and What it Teaches Us Today is a Turing Post article that outlines five AI winter periods between 1966 and 1988. It details the causes of each collapse in AI hype, lessons learned by researchers, and how these setbacks shaped the development of modern neural networks and current AI technology.
Tilda Vector is a free online vector graphic editor for creating and editing SVG files and vector images in the browser. It requires no account or subscription and offers drawing, freehand, select, bend, and basic shape tools, along with layers and viewbox settings. A vector editor is also available in Zero Block.
True Size of Countries is a free map website that shows the true size of each country on the Mercator projection. Users overlay the correct shape and size of countries on an interactive map to see the world without the projection's distortions, which grow toward the poles.
Twitter Demetricator is a web browser extension that hides metrics on Twitter, including follower, like, and notification counts. It is intended to let users try the site without numbers and to question how metric terms shape judgment of self and others.
Vital is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer. Its spectral oscillator warping acts on a waveform's harmonics to create different shapes and timbres. Users can convert their own samples into wavetables with the pitch-splice or vocode converter, or use the built-in wavetable editor. The interface includes animated controls, filter responses, waveforms and spectrograms.
A webpage describing a tool for generating voxel shapes such as spheres for Minecraft. It gives a level-by-level 3D breakdown of schematics and includes bezier curve shape definition; an update notes cone and dome generation.
Online collection of William & Mary Law School oral histories, a project of the Wolf Law Library that began in 2023 and adds new interviews annually. Law students work with library staff to collect stories of individuals from diverse backgrounds who have helped shape the law school. Collections are organized by alumni and by faculty and staff.
WorldEdit is a building tool for Minecraft that creates, replaces or deletes blocks and generates shapes such as spheres, cylinders, cuboids, forests and snowy areas. Builds can be copied, pasted and saved as schematics. Official support is listed for Bukkit, NeoForge, Fabric and Sponge.
WorldPainter is an interactive graphical map generator for Minecraft Java Edition. It offers tools similar to a paint program to shape terrain and place materials, trees, snow and ice. The program is implemented in Java and requires at least version 17. Installers are offered for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/UNIX, including portable archives.
Xournal++ is an open-source, cross-platform note-taking software, described as a feature-rich modern rewrite of the original Xournal program. It is available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. The app supports handwritten note-taking with pressure-sensitive styluses and drawing tablets, offers customizable pen, highlighter and eraser tools, includes layers for complex notes, page previews, and supports adding images and various shapes for scientific and general note use.
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking program with PDF annotation support, written in C++ with GTK3. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows 10 and supports pen input from devices such as Wacom tablets. The project offers paper backgrounds, drawing tools and shape drawing, and can follow links from a background PDF.
Zdog is a JavaScript engine for canvas and SVG that renders simple 3D models as flat 2D shapes. The library is 2,100 lines of code and 28KB minified, with modeling done through a declarative API. It is described as a beta release.
