# asciimoo/drawille

Pixel graphics in terminal with unicode braille characters

Repository: https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/drawille
Language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2024-11-13T13:44:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4516, "days_push": 658, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3254, forks 134 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:52.158534+00:00)

## What it is
A Python library for drawing pixel graphics in the terminal using Unicode braille characters, providing a Canvas API and a Turtle graphics interface. It enables high-resolution text-based rendering without any GUI dependencies.

## Use cases
- draw plots and graphs in the terminal
- render pixel graphics with unicode braille characters
- create turtle graphics animations in a console
- visualize data in a terminal without a GUI
- draw sine waves or rotating cubes in the shell
- add lightweight graphics to CLI tools

## When to choose
- you need high-resolution graphics inside a terminal
- you want a dependency-free Python way to render plots or shapes in a console
- you're building a CLI tool that needs visual output

## When to avoid
- you need full-color or GUI rendering
- your terminal or font doesn't support braille characters
- you need image or video output rather than text-based graphics

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: graphics, data-visualization, terminal-ui
- domain: developer-tools, data-visualization
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: braille, terminal-graphics, canvas, ascii-art, turtle-graphics, command-line

## Member repositories
- asciimoo/drawille (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:52.158534+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:43:53.388048+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:52.158534+00:00, sha 4d7a020e3ce5)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/drawille/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:36:54.603553+00:00, sha 9bd4175b5a5b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.