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ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art

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268 points zayat | 3 comments | 01 Jul 25 10:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.657s | 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. dclowd9901 ◴[03 Jul 25 01:59 UTC] No.44450906[source]▶
Another suggestion: API so I can curl and get this in my terminal.
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2. namanyayg ◴[03 Jul 25 03:02 UTC] No.44451242[source]▶
no api needed https://acme.com/software/phoon/
3. panki27 ◴[03 Jul 25 10:06 UTC] No.44453425[source]▶
`curl wttr.in/moon`