ASCIIPoint

An ASCII presentation tool by Gareth Halfacree and Tom Hudson. Initially written in less than 24 hours for LeedsHack 2012.

Requirements

• linux
• PHP 5.4 (for short array syntax, Callable type hints and Closure::bindTo())
• jp2a (for image to ASCII conversion)

Instructions

Run ./present.php example-slides/* to see the example slides. Advance slides with Enter.

If you receive the error ./present.php: Permission denied: you may need to set the present script to be executable using chmod +x present.php.

To run a single slide (e.g. one of the template slides), just pass the filename as the only argument:

./present.php template-slides/lines.php 

Features

• Basic text
• Line, rectangle, circle, ellipse, and simple bezier curve drawing
• Slide-X and slide-Y animations
• On-the-fly image to ASCII conversion
• Regular and bold ANSI colours

Demo

A screencast can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wPgShYsN2Y

A live demo at LeedsHack 2012 can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fR9q6tfaFQ