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v1.0.0
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The first public release. TrickWork turns images into proportional-font-aware ASCII art - a rebuild of the abandoned ASCGen2, with characters picked by how much visual "ink" they actually cover at your chosen font instead of by brightness alone.

✨ Added

  • Core conversion engine: source image → character grid, driven by real measured glyph ink coverage (a canvas-rendered sample of each character, not an assumption that every glyph looks equally "full") - proportional (non-monospace) fonts render correctly instead of looking stretched or squashed.
  • Nine of ASCII Gen 2's own original character ramps, fetched and verified byte-for-byte against its real 2011 source archive - including its own weighting mechanic (a character repeated in the ramp claims proportionally more of the brightness range), plus a bonus 70-character "Detailed" ramp for extra tonal range. The character-set field is fully free-text: paste, edit or hand-tune any ramp.
  • Live interactive preview with zoom, alongside the source image and an adjustable crop region.
  • Levels (black/gamma/white point, with a live histogram), Brightness/Contrast, Invert, Floyd-Steinberg Dithering, and Color output (per-cell average source colour, carried through every export except plain TXT).
  • Sharpen and Unsharp Mask.
  • Rotate (0/90/180/270°) and horizontal/vertical flip.
  • A batch queue: convert several images with the same settings, export them together as one TXT file.
  • Undo/redo history with a readable log of what changed, gesture-aware so a whole slider drag undoes as one step.
  • Export to TXT, XHTML, RTF or PNG, or copy the active image straight to the clipboard.
  • Export/import the full settings object as a JSON file, to save or share a configuration.
  • Two ways to run it from one shared TypeScript/Canvas core, always pixel-for-pixel identical: a self-hosted Docker container (amd64 + arm64, with an Unraid Community Applications template) and a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux (via Wails - a portable, no-install 64-bit binary on Windows, a .dmg on macOS, a plain binary on Linux). Both are stateless - no database, no accounts, nothing to configure beyond the port.

🎨 Design

  • A full GlimStone-based interface: dark/light/system theme, a Round/Soft/Square shape engine that reshapes every corner across the whole app at once, and an optional Rainbow mode that hands out a distinct colour per control instead of one flat accent.
  • Drag-and-drop reorderable sidebar cards, so the working layout matches how you actually use it.
  • Translated into 26 languages.
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