ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art

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268 points zayat | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 10:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.477s | source

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SlowTao ◴[02 Jul 25 21:41 UTC] No.44449154[source]▶

While I love the ASCII art, yeah... thats not how the moon phase works. At half moon it should be exactly half occluded, so like it was cut in half, not just a weird circle cut out.

This is something that partially bothered me about GTA San Andreas on Ps2. They used the same trick as here but I would give them a pass because it was just a small detail on a large simulation on an already very limited system.

There are some great bones here on the site, just need to tweak the shadow and it can be a 10 out of 10.

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1. HumblyTossed ◴[03 Jul 25 01:07 UTC] No.44450581[source]▶

>>44449154 #

Yeah instead of moving a dark circle over the moon, it needs to be hinged at the north and south and rotated.

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2. JdeBP ◴[03 Jul 25 06:33 UTC] No.44452244[source]▶

>>44450581 (TP) #

It's amusing that it isn't truly a circle. It's a box with rounded corners and the corner rounding radius chosen to be half the box width. There is probably not a simple CSS trick like that for doing the correct 2D projection of a hemisphere.

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