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Google Art Creator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the google-abuse dept.

Li0nHeart writes: "Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out. Because Google colorizes search-terms you can make very interesting ascii art in the groups." Here is a website dedicated to creating this art and some examples.

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  1. The google geeks will love it... :-) by Heraklit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, since the google admins even let you see all the interface messages in Klingon or Elmer Fudd if you like, they might just love the idea... :-)

  2. ASCII art? ANSI was much better... by silverhalide · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IMO, the best thing from the BBS days was the top-notch ANSI art -- the stuff that took baseline ASCII and added ANSI color and extended characters to make some really cool stuff. Some of those guys could create some amazing images (anyone remember iCE, ACiD, and all those groups?). Actually, iCE is still around and cranking out some top-quality ANSI -- www.ice.org. Check 'em out, pretty impressive.

  3. Re:Now, my friends . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Granted, it's a cool idea and nicely implemented, but does anyone else think this isn't really ASCII-art? I mean, what's the difference between aa ae ao bart and a very low res color bitmap? ASCII-art uses the shape of text mode characters to form the image, not color. If it's not white on black or black on white then it's cheating.