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General discussion on ASCII art. Unicode art, ANSI, figlet, image2ascii, historical interests, questions, etc. All are welcome!
The McGuire Twins — Billy and Benny McCrary, the "world's fattest twins", riding their motorcycles across the country as part of a Honda promotion. [preformatted]
💬 5 likes · 2023-06-12 · 3 days ago
Turtle Island — [preformatted]
💬 11 likes · 2023-06-07 · 8 days ago
About ASCII Art and jgs font — New article from french artist Adel Faure that goes into some of the history of ASCII art along with a custom font they designed. Also be sure to check out their website, which is designed entirely in ASCII!
💬 2 comments · 2023-06-01 · 13 days ago
T-Rex — While I'm not thrilled with how some of the finer details turned out, I'm happy with the overall scale and the 3d effect. [preformatted] We need more ASCII dinos! Rowland Crawford made a couple of interesting ones: [preformatted] [preformatted] (This one is supposed to be kicking its foot towards the camera but its hard to make out with my font.) And this one from snd made me chuckle [preformatted]
💬 7 likes · 2023-05-30 · 2 weeks ago
Golf Swing — This is a "stroboscopic" image, which is a unique type of photography that involves taking multiple flashes in quick succession to capture different stages of movement in a single frame. It's one of the few techniques used to express movement in a static picture. [preformatted]
💬 2 comments · 4 likes · 2023-05-25 · 3 weeks ago
Hummingbird — The logo from @indieterminacye's qiuynonical project. "Hummingbirds generate a trail of wake vortices under each wing while hovering." - wikipedia [preformatted]
💬 1 like · 2023-05-22 · 3 weeks ago
My girl Sandra Bullock — This one took a while, and several revisions. [preformatted]
💬 5 likes · 2023-05-21 · 4 weeks ago
Trying to get serious about my ASCII — I've dabbled for a while, but this is what I consider my first attempt at an actual serious piece. Behold, [The Tower by Beetledjuice] The fine-tuning took a bit longer than I'd like to admit, but overall I'm quite proud of it.
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-05-19 · 4 weeks ago
Using Figlet Fonts to Make ASCII Banners — If you use Linux you can use figlet to create simple ascii banners. [preformatted] The program uses "figlet font" files with the extension 'flf' or 'tfl', which you can find on the web. Very old school. We should probably make a repository of them here. [contents of pagga.tfl]
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · 2023-05-18 · 4 weeks ago
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — A new picture of link that I made to celebrate the hours that I've been pouring into Tears of the Kingdom this week. [preformatted]
💬 1 comment · 5 likes · 2023-05-18 · 4 weeks ago
The first letter of my name. [preformatted] I didn't make this by hand :( I just made an image and used Station's profile pic converter. But I still think it looks super cool.
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-05-17 · 4 weeks ago
— The "Omloppsbanan" orbit page
Omloppsbanan ("The Orbit") — My first attempt to make ascii art. It is the logo for an orbit I host, whose name is a pun. It is a swedish word that means "orbit" (literally "the circulatory path"), but could also be interpreted as "the circulatory banana". I wanted to make something that looked like the old "Space Lego" logo. I also sneaked in some ascii art bananas and a signature hidden in the comet. Enjoy! [ASCII art...
💬 2 comments · 3 likes · 2023-05-17 · 4 weeks ago
Q: Please forgive my ignorance, is this for manually-made ASCII art only or is algorithmically and downloaded art cool, too?
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-05-16 · 4 weeks ago
Cats — This is my favorite cat. I love the way that Felix uses the shape in the "4" to outline the face. It's super difficult to pull of this much expressiveness in only 4 lines. [preformatted] Here's another one. Again, a very expressive pose and you just know this cat is laying in a sunny spot on a carpet somewhere. The carpet lines add an interesting background texture without distracting from the image. [preformatted]
💬 5 likes · 2023-05-16 · 4 weeks ago
i tried [preformatted]
💬 4 comments · 2023-05-16 · 4 weeks ago
Castles — One of my favorite castles, by Stephen C.E.S. Wilson [preformatted]
💬 4 likes · 2023-05-16 · 4 weeks ago