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Re: Textart.sh

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Post by methou »

Back in 2000s when telnet BBS' are huge, you can fit in a lot of things in a 80x24 screen. Sadly they are slowly dying out. I'm not sure how many of them are left in the English world, but at least in the Chinese world ptt.cc is still alive.

Here's an example of experience with ASCIIArt/ANSIArt[0], when using telnet based forums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ohV6KZsQo

There's also a ANSIArt version of star war, https://www.asciimation.co.nz/ , it used to be a telnet site, but nowadays no one even have the binary to telnet from.

Re: Textart.sh

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Post by amelius »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #17

Every one I tried returned a disclaimer something like, "While technically this is not [whatever] ASCII art because it uses Unicode characters ..." This suggests some folks are expecting ASCII art. Perhaps this website should be "unicodeart.sh" instead "textart.sh"

Doesn't seem to use the full unicode set either.

Re: Textart.sh

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Post by Juraph »

WaffleIronMaker wrote: post #20

Here's a more curated and human-made ASCII version: https://ascii.co.uk/art

THIS is the kind of thing I was expecting when I clicked on the parent link, ASCII art, instead of computer converted images. While there is nothing wrong with rasterising an image to ASCII, there is something I really love about the hand drawn stuff. Especially the early ones where the 'canvas' size was so limited, it forced such creativity.

Re: Textart.sh

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Post by nurettin »

technophiliac wrote: post #8
ssl-3 wrote: post #5

Nice, 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 :(

I just imagined the goatse guy aging 20 years. How would he hold his crap? Would he ever live that long? Questions for the 40 year olds.
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