Python Adventures

I wanted to make a logo for my project PrimCom. Since it runs in the command line, I wanted to draw the logo with characters.

You can find a list of box-drawing characters here. I designed the logo on a paper, translated the box characters to normal characters (this way it was easier to type them in), then translated the characters back with a script.

Python source:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

from __future__ import (absolute_import, division,
                        print_function, unicode_literals)

import sys

chars = {
    'a': '┌',
    'b': '┐',
    'c': '┘',
    'd': '└',
    'e': '─',
    'f': '│',
    'g': '┴',
    'h': '├',
    'i': '┬',
    'j': '┤',
    'k': '╷',
    'l': '┼',
}

logo = """
aeeb     aeeb
fabf     faec
fdcheiieejf aeeieeb
faejaljkkff fabfkkf
ff fffffffdejdcffff
dc dcdggggeegeegggc
"""

def main():
    for c in logo:
        if c in chars:
            sys.stdout.write(chars[c])
        else:
            sys.stdout.write(c)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Output:

┌─────┐           ┌─────┐
│ ┌─┐ │           │ ┌───┘
│ └─┘ ├───┬─┬─────┤ │   ┌─────┬─────┐
│ ┌───┤ ┌─┼─┤ ╷ ╷ │ │   │ ┌─┐ │ ╷ ╷ │
│ │   │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┤ └─┘ │ │ │ │
└─┘   └─┘ └─┴─┴─┴─┴─────┴─────┴─┴─┴─┘

Update (20140322)
If you want rainbow colors, check out the colout project.