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General discussion on ASCII art. Unicode art, ANSI, figlet, image2ascii, historical interests, questions, etc. All are welcome!
A Reply to @requiem re: Chafa Script — This should be a reply to [this post] by @requiem, but I could not add a long reply with my code contribution. So I made this separate post. [gemini link] [this post] @requiem provided a bash script that wrapped chafa and outputed gemtext. Chafa is a very nice image-to-text conversion tool that everyone in Geminispace should know about. [https link] The chafa homepage I decided to change the original script because it was too interactive, imo, and...
💬 3 comments · 3 likes · Apr 22 · 3 weeks ago
— Chafa gallery generator for .gmi
A script to generate Chafa galleries for gmi — Hey! I can only take credit for the idea, but I am sharing a little script cobbled together with artificial help that generates a little .gmi ANSI gallery out of images in a directory. An example: $ ls something.jpeg something_else.jpeg testing.jpeg another.jpeg somefile.jpeg $ ./chafa-gmi-gallery-gen.sh Enter gallery name or leave blank to use...
💬 4 comments · 3 likes · Apr 20 · 3 weeks ago · #ansi #chafa #gallery #script
Maybe not strictly art, but nevertheless an interesting approach to text-only graphics for people using a Mac (like me): the new app called monodraw lets you create graphics made of text. I’ll certainly try it out, and maybe this is of interest for someone here. If so, please leave a comment. [https link] Monodraw
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · Mar 14 · 8 weeks ago
Dark Silk - Taiwan BBS ANSI art — I've recently been sucked into the world of Taiwan BBS ANSI art. This is a largely independent scene from its western counterpart, and grew out of BBS servers that are still used today in Taiwan (search "PTT Bulletin Board"). There are very few english resources on the subject so I've been leaning heavily on translation tools. The language barrier is rough though. The Taiwan/Chinese style is very unique because it mixes block-drawing characters (aka ANSI art)...
💬 1 comment · 8 likes · Mar 12 · 2 months ago
[amiga] embrace
💬 1 comment · 8 likes · Mar 09 · 2 months ago
[amiga] blue dress — Here's another amiga piece that I made. I'm kind of bummed I can't post these here as plaintext because of the font/color requirements. But on the other hand, it's more comfortable knowing I having full control over how the picture will be seen.
💬 3 comments · 16 likes · Mar 02 · 2 months ago
Baseball Player — [preformatted]
💬 7 likes · Jan 28 · 3 months ago
Request. I am making a dice game but can't find any ASCII dice that I like. has anyone come across just the 6 square faces of a die that looks okay? I want to stack them 3 wide on the screen, so nothing huge. I made my own but they are...not good.
💬 18 comments · Jan 24 · 4 months ago
[amiga] dancer — This is my first pic using the amiga ascii art font & character set. Amiga is a popular category in the underground BBS art scene. It's interesting (to me) for a couple of reasons. The amiga charset is essentially latin-1, so you get access to "extended-ascii" characters like (¯), (°), and (²). These high characters are sorely lacking in 7-bit ascii and are helpful for drawing interesting curves and such. There are no block-drawing characters (like (░), (█), so amiga art is...
💬 5 comments · 7 likes · Jan 23 · 4 months ago
Butterfly — [preformatted]
💬 2 comments · 13 likes · Jan 21 · 4 months ago
Maze of MURDERS — I just finished programming an ASCII art Gemini multiplayer game. It's called "Maze of MURDERS." Give it a try and send any feedback you have. Thanks! The URL is [gemini link]
💬 23 comments · 5 likes · 2023-12-29 · 4 months ago
What tools do you use? — I've been looking for a simple ASCII art editor for linux, open source, preferrably written in C (and definitely not Python or anything that pulls in random libraries and will stop working one day for no explainable reason) . Minimum requirements are: position the cursor anywhere, enter weird characters easily. Draw boxes and lines in various directions. Also, cut and paste as lines or boxes. I haven't found such a thing. There is a proliferation of online crap, but I...
💬 5 comments · 2023-12-21 · 5 months ago
— Dissecting a Snake (Plissken)
ASCII art find via discogem. I like the explanations of how it was made on Snake.
💬 2 likes · 2023-12-20 · 5 months ago
Miscellaneous plants — [preformatted]
💬 3 comments · 7 likes · 2023-12-18 · 5 months ago
Shadow Wolf Cyberzine — If you're on gemini, there's a 100% probability you will think this is cool.
💬 2 comments · 7 likes · 2023-11-28 · 5 months ago
Thanksgiving is over, time for christmas! — [preformatted]
💬 11 likes · 2023-11-24 · 6 months ago
Found this neat capsule that makes ASCII text in Geminispace
💬 3 comments · 2 likes · 2023-11-21 · 6 months ago
Homer Simpson — [preformatted]
💬 2 comments · 9 likes · 2023-11-20 · 6 months ago
Magic Gopher — This one was fun to make! I spent a lot of time playing with different variations of the glitter trail behind the wand, and landed on something very minimal. I generated the reference image using DALL-E with the following prompt: Illustration of a charming gopher dressed in a pink tutu, gracefully twirling on her toes. She holds a sparkling magic wand in her paw and waves it in the air. Admittedly it came out looking more like a chipmunk than a gopher, but that's alright since...
💬 4 comments · 7 likes · 2023-11-10 · 6 months ago
whirlwind | sword in the stone | mushoom — Some semi-recent stuff that I've done. This one is kind of an abstract whirlwind/tornado. I think it would be cool to put some words swirling around inside, but I haven't come up with anything yet. [preformatted] This is a scene from the disney movie "The Sword in the Stone", which is one of my favorite disney movies. There are some parts that I'm not totally happy with, but eh. [preformatted] This is a mushroom that I made for...
💬 6 likes · 2023-10-26 · 7 months ago
@mozz I'll see if I can get this working better in the next patch release. /s/ascii-art/6295
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-10-18 · 7 months ago
tcf-x [ANSI] — Testing posting ANSI art to Bubble. This piece is from a 2015 art pack, [https link] I converted it from an .ans file to utf-8 using a custom version of this algorithm, [https link] The top is utf-8 only, the bottom is utf-8 with ansi colors, bold and other sequences. It seems to be breaking Lagrange for me, everything below the preformatted block is not parsed correctly. [preformatted] [preformatted]
💬 3 comments · 2023-10-18 · 7 months ago
Is Unicode art a thing? Is it hard to know that a viewer will have all Unicode fonts installed?
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · 2023-10-13 · 7 months ago
Wizards — Some fun wizards, each with unique little details that make them stand out. [preformatted]
💬 1 comment · 5 likes · 2023-10-13 · 7 months ago
Tiny Horses — I did a deep dive into the world of ASCII art horses. I found myself gravitating towards small-scale pictures. Here are some of my favorites. First up is one of my all-time favorite ASCII pieces. The horse on the top was drawn separately by sk, and then cjr took it and added the water/reflection underneath it. I love the details like the water splashing and the slight visual degradation of the mirror image in the water. [preformatted] I don't know who drew these ones, but I...
💬 3 likes · 2023-10-10 · 7 months ago
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