Artistic

Can I have an ink of paint, please?

This allows you to draw artistic stuff into the console so that you can build your own interactive console applications easily.

Border

You can render a nice border to the console either without any text, just a title, a text, or box title and text. You can also customize the borders, such as drop shadows which we'll showcase in the BoxFrame renderable.

No text

var artistic = new Border()
{
    Left = 2,
    Top = 1,
    InteriorWidth = 20,
    InteriorHeight = 10,
};
TextWriterRaw.WriteRaw(artistic.Render());

Title only

Text only

Title + text

You can use the border settings to change the color of the border and to determine whether to display the entire border or not using a set of properties. For example, if you don't want to render the right edge, you can set BorderRightFrameEnabled to false.

Box

You can render a box to the terminal easily.

var artistic = new Box()
{
    Left = 2,
    Top = 1,
    InteriorWidth = 20,
    InteriorHeight = 10,
    Color = ConsoleColors.Magenta3
};
TextWriterRaw.WriteRaw(artistic.Render());

Box frame

It's basically the same as a border, but without text support and without filling inside the box

No title

var artistic = new BoxFrame("")
{
    Left = 2,
    Top = 1,
    InteriorWidth = 20,
    InteriorHeight = 10,
};
TextWriterRaw.WriteRaw(artistic.Render());

With title

No title (shadow)

Title (shadow)

With Rulers

Canvas

This is your sandbox for your awesome creations. This is done by coloring individual pixels with a color of your choice.

Transparent, half-width

var artistic = new Canvas()
{
	Left = 2,
	Top = 2,
	Color = ConsoleColors.Green,
	DoubleWidth = false,
	Transparent = true,
	InteriorWidth = 20,
	InteriorHeight = 20,
	Pixels =
	[
        // Draw the top part of the "T" letter
        new(2, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(3, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(4, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(5, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(6, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(7, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(8, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(12, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(13, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(14, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(15, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(16, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(17, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(18, 2) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(2, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(3, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(4, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(5, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(6, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(7, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(8, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(12, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(13, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(14, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(15, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(16, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(17, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(18, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
        
        // Draw the line of the "T" letter
        new(9, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 4) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 5) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 6) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 7) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 8) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 9) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 10) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 11) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 12) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 13) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 14) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 15) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 16) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 17) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 18) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(9, 19) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 4) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 5) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 6) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 7) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 8) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 9) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 10) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 11) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 12) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 13) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 14) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 15) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 16) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 17) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 18) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(10, 19) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 3) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 4) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 5) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 6) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 7) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 8) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 9) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 10) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 11) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 12) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 13) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 14) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 15) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 16) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 17) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 18) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
		new(11, 19) { CellColor = ConsoleColors.Yellow },
	]
};
TextWriterRaw.WriteRaw(artistic.Render());

Opaque, half-width

Transparent, full-width

Opaque, full-width

Animated canvases

You can make animated canvases using the AnimatedCanvas class. It allows you to define canvas frames that describe a group of arrays of cell properties. They are changed sequentially to form an animated canvas. The example below is taken from this file.