Textart.sh
textart.sh
Textart.sh
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#2Found the site when looking for ascii art to add to a server motd and wondered if anyone had any information about it? All I can find when searching is references to people using it in projects, but no background or community.
Has a pretty amazing number of categories / artworks, and some of them are genuinely beautiful. It feels very old internet but the domain was registered in 2018, although could have been migrated?
Almost happy for it to stay a mystery but on the off chance the maintainer(s) see this thank you for adding a bit of brightness to the world :)
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#3Found the site when looking for ascii art to add to a server motd and wondered if anyone had any information about it? All I can find when searching is references to people using it in projects, but no background or community. Has a pretty amazing number of categories / artworks, and some of them are genuinely beautiful. It feels very old internet but the domain was registered in 2018, although could have been migrat…
Some of the entries I ran across made me feel like it was automated. They weren't really art, they were photos with words in them etc.
I think it's scraping images somewhere and processing them automatically.
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#5Nice, but since each pixel consists of a solid-filled greyscale rectangle (or emojis, I guess?) and doesn't take advantage of the shapes of characters, the resolution seems limited compared to the ASCII art of yore (or even the output of aalib).
It also doesn't have any Dickbutt images and this is a crime against Dickbutt.
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#6Found the site when looking for ascii art to add to a server motd and wondered if anyone had any information about it? All I can find when searching is references to people using it in projects, but no background or community. Has a pretty amazing number of categories / artworks, and some of them are genuinely beautiful. It feels very old internet but the domain was registered in 2018, although could have been migrat…
Some of the entries I ran across made me feel like it was automated. They weren't really art, they were photos with words in them etc. I think it's scraping images somewhere and processing them automatically.
There's certainly some automated conversiom happening at some point in the process, either it's scraping resources that include automated renders, or else it's doing them itself.
Lots of unreadable or very suboptimally rendered text within images that you just wouldn't do like that even if you were copying from an existing image.
Makes me wonder if the upvote/downvote mechanism is feeding into some machine learning.
However, some images do convert pretty well, and if the up/down voting mechanism reflects in what gets listed on what order, then it could become a cool little resource.
Kinda ruins the old-internet charm of the text art though.
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#7I was expecting AI but was positively surprised
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#8Nice, but since each pixel consists of a solid-filled greyscale rectangle (or emojis, I guess?) and doesn't take advantage of the shapes of characters, the resolution seems limited compared to the ASCII art of yore (or even the output of aalib). It also doesn't have any Dickbutt images and this is a crime against Dickbutt.
No goatse, either :(
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#9These are all machines generated from normal photos without any regard if the output looks good. You can even see shutterstock watermarks in some.
Take a look at a site like https://aahub.org/ if you want to see some examples of proper text art.
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#10Nice, but since each pixel consists of a solid-filled greyscale rectangle (or emojis, I guess?) and doesn't take advantage of the shapes of characters, the resolution seems limited compared to the ASCII art of yore (or even the output of aalib). It also doesn't have any Dickbutt images and this is a crime against Dickbutt.
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