scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

Thing that I wish existed: A command-line meme generator. Something that you could call like

memgen --template tintin-wednesday bubble2="Captain, it's Monday"

or

memegen -t surprised-pikachu label=CEO

or

memegen -t 3-spider-men head1=file:tobey.jpg head2=file:andrew.jpg head3=file:tom.jpg

Templates can be downloaded as separate packages (usually with more than one template) or created by the user. Text & images can also be placed manually using coordinates.

#CommandLine #CLI #memes

ollibaba,
@ollibaba@chaos.social avatar

@scy Welllll... you could also just post those commands as text – for the popular memes people will understand it without seeing the image :-D

(ok, in truth I do like your idea; but I'm also prone to just writing picard-facepalm.gif in a post because I'm sure people will understand what I want to convey)

histalek,

@scy Bonuspoints if it would also generate Alt Text

scy,
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@histalek Yep, has already been suggested in the thread, and I think it's an awesome idea. If (okay, rather when) I implement this tool, that's definitely gonna be a priority.

oblomov,
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@scy fun fact, I started working on one a few years ago, using SVG for the text overlay. Maybe I should share it.

scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

@oblomov Why not, even if it's just for inspiration.

But yeah, "SVG mode" is definitely something that should be considered as well, to maybe even allow high-quality printing.

jimfl,
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@oblomov @scy bonus feature: —alt-text emits alt text for the meme instead of the image.

scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

@jimfl @oblomov holy shit YES

oblomov,
@oblomov@sociale.network avatar

@scy @jimfl I'll try to find some free time for that

jer,
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scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

@jer Pretty nice, thanks for the hint :)

Apparently it can only do text tough. But yeah, this is similar to how I would've done it. Have some base images and then JSON (I would've chosen YAML) files to configure where the text can go.

Needs more flexibility though. I want to place images where the heads of people are, not just text. With basic transformations like rotation and scaling, but good defaults. More slots. Named slots. Things like "replace the fourth panel with this image".

awinkler,

@scy reads almost like a prompt 😉

savaran,

@awinkler @scy hah, what the world needs is one that will take the text the user wants and auto attach it to the correct meme for the text supplied

scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

@savaran @awinkler lol that's a nice idea as well

scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

@awinkler Well I wouldn't mind if someone wrote it. :P At one point, when I've got way too much spare time, I'll do it myself if necessary. I want this to exist.

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