Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
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Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
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Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#2This is really awesome. I usually have to clean up ascii art from generators by hand quite a bit, but the output of this appears much much cleaner!
Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#3This is really awesome. I usually have to clean up ascii art from generators by hand quite a bit, but the output of this appears much much cleaner!
Good to know someone has use for this! I just thought it was cool algorithm but it seemed to lack much application.
Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#4This is utterly amazing. I recommend downloading the presentation slides that explain the algorithm in more details. There are some very interesting ideas that can be reused.
Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#5"Some browsers may not support the required fonts, click here if the above ASCII art is corrupted."
And apparently mine doesn't. Why not? What went wrong? All browsers should support fixed-width fonts. Just use a more standard fixed width font please?
Other than that, it's beautiful! But please don't depend on brittle technologies for displaying one of the oldest computing art forms :)
Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#6"Some browsers may not support the required fonts, click here if the above ASCII art is corrupted." And apparently mine doesn't. Why not? What went wrong? All browsers should support fixed-width fonts. Just use a more standard fixed width font please? Other than that, it's beautiful! But please don't depend on brittle technologies for displaying one of the oldest computing art forms :)
The site is using a japanese(?) font which you probably don't have and it's falling back to a serif font. If you inspect element and change it to monospace it all works fine.
Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#7"Some browsers may not support the required fonts, click here if the above ASCII art is corrupted." And apparently mine doesn't. Why not? What went wrong? All browsers should support fixed-width fonts. Just use a more standard fixed width font please? Other than that, it's beautiful! But please don't depend on brittle technologies for displaying one of the oldest computing art forms :)
It looks like they are using the Song typeface for simplified Chinese (宋体). Maybe they are using this to get square symbols instead of the usual rectangles of monospace.
They could have used monospace with letter-spacing to make it square.
Try "letter-spacing: 0.1em;" to get an idea of the difference.
Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#8The Chinese seem to be doing this a lot still. It is hard to find a lot of examples, but they are out there (http://ansi.loli.tw/).
Of course, we used to do this all the time in western countries and a whole underground scene formed out of it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art_scene). You can see most of the old artwork on Sixteen Colors (http://sixteencolors.net)
Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#9This is really awesome. I usually have to clean up ascii art from generators by hand quite a bit, but the output of this appears much much cleaner!
Good to know someone has use for this! I just thought it was cool algorithm but it seemed to lack much application.
I guess this would also be useful for non-computer artists who like to play with typography.
Re: Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)
#10This is utterly amazing. I recommend downloading the presentation slides that explain the algorithm in more details. There are some very interesting ideas that can be reused.
Reading the paper is useful, too. I'm quite impressed by the algorithm they developed.