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ASCII Clouds

#1

Post by majkinetor » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 2:20 AM UTC

ASCII Clouds
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#2

Post by functionmouse » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 2:35 AM UTC

What do you see in the clouds?

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#3

Post by firecall » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 2:36 AM UTC

Well thats pretty cool!

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#4

Post by imdsm » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 2:49 AM UTC

that looks pretty good

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#5

Post by casparvitch » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 2:53 AM UTC

Would love this as an audio visualizer

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#6

Post by Padriac » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 3:11 AM UTC

I don't understand.

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#7

Post by greggman65 » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 3:26 AM UTC

maybe there is more going on here but it's relatively easy to make a text post processing shader and apply it to anything, 3d scene, a video, etc...

https://post-processing.tresjs.org/guide/pmndrs/ascii

https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ascii-shader-using-glsl-postpr...

https://threejs.org/examples/?q=ascii#webgl_effects_ascii

https://fwdapps.net/l/asci/

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/ascii-postprocessing-n628p8...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxeRcnLr0ko

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Post by keyle » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 3:39 AM UTC

Padriac wrote: post #6

I don't understand.

I think it's just a technological show piece, basically built on top of open source libraries and a couple of algorithms.

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Post by matthew_hre » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 4:10 AM UTC

Spent longer than I'd like to admit trying to recreate the Balatro background effect...

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#10

Post by ynac » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 4:23 AM UTC

Just throwing a HELL YES out there for this. Nice work. I've been trying to integrate a live ascii video feature for a while now and the subtle detail on this is really inspiring.

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