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{bittermelon}
features over a dozen functions that can modify individual bitmaps or every bitmap within a "bitmap list" or "bitmap font".bm_bitmap()
and bm_pixmap()
objects it also supports modifying {magick}
's "magick-image" objects and base R's "nativeRaster" and "raster" objects.remotes::install_github("trevorld/bittermelon")
read_monobit()
and write_monobit()
require that monobit is installed (i.e. pip3 install monobit
).bm_distort()
requires the suggested package magick.library("bittermelon") # remotes::install_github("trevorld/bittermelon")
font_file <- system.file("fonts/spleen/spleen-8x16.hex.gz", package = "bittermelon")
font <- read_hex(font_file)
bml <- as_bm_list("RSTATS", font = font)
# With vertical compression
bm <- bml |> bm_call(cbind) |> bm_compress("vertical")
print(bm)
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# Upside down with ASCII characters
bm <- bml |>
bm_flip("both") |>
bm_call(cbind, direction = "RTL")
print(bm, px = px_ascii)
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# With a shadow effect and borders
bm <- bml |>
bm_pad(sides = 2L) |>
bm_shadow() |>
bm_extend(sides = c(2L, 1L), value = 3L) |>
bm_call(cbind) |>
bm_pad(sides = 2L, value = 3L)
print(bm)
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We can also print colored terminal output with help of {cli}
:
if (cli::num_ansi_colors() >= 16L)
print(bm, px = " ",
bg = c(cli::bg_br_white, cli::bg_blue, cli::bg_cyan, cli::bg_red))
plot(bm, col = c("white", "blue3", "cyan3", "red3"))
# Also supports {gridpattern} matrices
gridpattern::pattern_weave("twill_herringbone", nrow=14L, ncol = 50L) |>
as_bm_bitmap() |>
print(compress = "vertical")
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gridpattern::pattern_square(subtype=8L, nrow=8L, ncol = 50L) |>
as_bm_pixmap(s, col = grDevices::rainbow(8L)) |>
plot()
# Also supports {mazing} mazes
set.seed(42)
m <- mazing::maze(16L, 32L)
m |> as_bm_bitmap(walls = TRUE) |>
print(compress = "vertical")
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# Can also visualize the maze solutions
pal <- grDevices::palette.colors()
m |> as_bm_pixmap(start = "top", end = "bottom",
col = c(pal[6L], "white", pal[7L], pal[5L])) |>
bm_pad(sides = 1L) |>
plot()
# Contains some built-in farming crops sprites
crops <- farming_crops_16x16()
names(crops)
[1] "avocado" "cassava" "coffee" "corn" "cucumber"
[6] "eggplant" "grapes" "lemon" "melon" "orange"
[11] "pineapple" "potato" "rice" "rose" "strawberry"
[16] "sunflower" "tomato" "tulip" "turnip" "wheat"
corn <- crops$corn$portrait
grapes <- crops$grapes$portrait
orange <- crops$orange$stage5
tulip <- crops$tulip$portrait
pm <- cbind(corn, grapes, orange, tulip)
We can pretty print sprites to the terminal with help of {cli}
:
if (cli::is_utf8_output() && cli::num_ansi_colors() >= 256L)
print(pm, compress = "v", bg = "white")
plot(pm)
{bittermelon}
has a builtin versions of the 8x16 Spleen font as well as 4x6 and 6x13 Fixed fonts.
spleen_8x16 <- read_hex(system.file("fonts/spleen/spleen-8x16.hex.gz",
package = "bittermelon"))
fixed_4x6 <- read_yaff(system.file("fonts/fixed/4x6.yaff.gz",
package = "bittermelon"))
fixed_5x8 <- read_yaff(system.file("fonts/fixed/5x8.yaff.gz",
package = "bittermelon"))
fixed_6x13 <- read_yaff(system.file("fonts/fixed/6x13.yaff.gz",
package = "bittermelon"))
as_bm_bitmap("RSTATS", font = spleen_8x16) |> bm_compress("v")
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The {hexfont} package includes a helper function unifont()
which loads several GNU Unifont hex fonts as a single {bittermelon}
bm_font()
object. GNU Unifont is a monoscale bitmap font (8x16 and 16x16 glyphs) that pretty much covers all of the official Unicode glyphs plus several of the artificial scripts in the (Under-)ConScript Unicode Registry.
library("hexfont")
system.time(font <- unifont()) # Unifont is a **big** font
user system elapsed
152.565 0.027 152.621
length(font) |> prettyNum(big.mark = ",") # number of glyphs
[1] "123,234"
object.size(font) |> format(units = "MB") # memory used
[1] "196.5 Mb"
# Faster to load from a cache
saveRDS(font, "unifont.rds")
system.time(font <- readRDS("unifont.rds"))
user system elapsed
0.497 0.004 0.501
# Or just load the subset of GNU Unifont you need
s <- "R很棒!"
system.time(font_s <- unifont(ucp = str2ucp(s)))
user system elapsed
0.725 0.000 0.725
# Mandarin Chinese
as_bm_bitmap(s, font = font_s) |> bm_compress("v")
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# Emoji
as_bm_bitmap("🐭🐲🐵", font = font) |> bm_compress("v")
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# Klingon
as_bm_list("", font = font) |>
bm_pad(type = "trim", left = 1L, right = 1L) |>
bm_call(cbind) |>
bm_compress("v")
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I wrote {bittermelon}
in order to help create Game Bit, a fixed-width bitmap font specialized for making board game diagrams. The duospaced version is called Game Bit Duo while the square monospaced version is called Game Bit Mono. Check out the Game Bit Github repo to see an extended example of using {bittermelon}
to make a custom font (albeit with several glyphs adopted/adapted from GNU Unifont).
{bittermelon}
will likely support including a specialized {ggplot2}
geom.{bittermelon}
to convert to/from "nativeRaster" objects.{bittermelon}
font objects.{bittermelon}
's bm_distort()
method.nr_text_bitmap()
method works with {bittermelon}
font objects.monobit-convert
which is used by bittermelon::read_monobit()
and bittermelon::write_monobit()
.Fixed aka "Unicode fonts and tools for X11"
Embedded in {hexfont}
package:
Embedded in {bdftools}
package: