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Appreciation For All Things ASCII
AsciiRock writes "Sick of seeing those chunky pixel art logos everywhere? Check out AsciiBlog, Contemporary ASCII, and Ascii Disko (no relation to me) for examples of artists inspired by plain text. ...and also click me! and click me! which made their way around the net some time back.
Wonder how many other examples of BBS design sensibility there'll be this year. There's already Wired illustrators.
2002, year of ASCII design?"
This is just asking for the goatsecx trolls...
Banaaaana!
that and the quake mod done in all ascii for linux - has that been ported to windows yet?
ASCII pr0n!!!!......im sry, i had to..
xao
xao
http://TheHillforum.hopto.org
wonder where all that bandwith go's? html, java, jpeg, gif...other misc trash
She may not be the best, but she's darn good. And she has some cool nude self-portraits ;-).
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ requires a java-enabled browser, though I'm pretty sure a telent version somewhere....
i can't find the URL right now but i remember watching Star Wars ANH all made with ASCII characters. i think it used java. they had a whole site/project going . . . anyone have that URL?
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Original start of my post: "Is it just me, or does the first clickme link seem really fallic.."
After watching the whole thing: "It just goes to show you that there's an infinite amount of things the japanese will masturbate to."
Be sure and check out asciipr0n for all you ascii pr0nography needs.
While the goatse guy totally disgusts me, I just metamoderated a comment where someone made the goatse picture out of ASCII text.
It was pretty funny, but the guy links to the real thing all over his comment.
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handey
I remember the pure glee of watching ascii quake. I realize it is pretty pointless, but it is another conversion method. High quality porn like the full length ascii rendition of the movie Deep Throat obviously take a lot of work.
The rendering technology is quite interesting; obviously there is the light->dark transition, but ascii also introduces a lot of possibilities with respect to antialiasing.
Just makes you wonder how long it will be before we get to watch Bates baiting Maldo for a thorough reaming in all the living glory of ascii.
that's just rendering a picture with ASCII chars, where's the human effort? it's like a robot-made-painting.
and the flash movie? well, you can't just jiggle around with the chars. it defeats the whole purpose.
"The majority is always sane, Louis." -- Nessus
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Apple has a little known utility that will play qucktime movies thru an ascii renderer (or something) and into the terminal app. Its only on monochrome, but watching movie trailers thru it is just wild.
The big Ascii banner on ascii.blog.pl "Robimy ASCII By Podryvac Laski" loosely translates to "We make ASCII to pick up chicks". If only I had known this was possible I'm sure I would have spent more of my BBS days making ASCII art :p
Let's not forget this baby!
Well, I couldn't really evaluate the blog, as it was in a non-english language, or the sites requiring Flash and/or Java, as I have neither. That said, the sites I could peruse weren't all that great. Contemporary Ascii was nothing but a bunch of links to a medical site (?), and Ascii Disko was some dude's music site.
Really, what the hell? Where's all the kick-ass Ascii art?
thats been around forever. just started reading at -1?
that L0pht now works for @stake, I'd like to see Deep Throat made into Hairy Palm v2.0.
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(sad cat-in-the-hat)
PHP protect all your pages so if a counter increments by a certain count within a certain amount of time (say 30 mins or an hour) for the next 2 hours, it will remove all of the inline images, run them through an ascii-art converter, and replace it, so you're transferring at most a couple kilobytes of text which is gzip compressable through most browsers now and checks every 2 hours until the slashdot (or fark, or k5, or memebutt) effect subsides... Any techheads wanna get crackin'?
-Christopher Wu
http://www.christopherwu.net/
Mplayer supports aalib output and can play many more formats including quicktime.
Down with ascii and romantic elitism! Unicode for the web, Unicode for email, unicode FOREVER!
Well, it would make things more convenient.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Because we haven't seen enough of the ASCII-rendered goatse picture.
Or is the first 'click me' somewhat, erm, pornographic? Certanly the second type of creature seems to be a giant penis with feet and tiny balls.
And, it's not using Ascii, as there are no japanese characters in acii.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
If you really want to be astounded with some ascii craziness...
Was the bomb - the best ascii artist of all time
Well done Kiwi nutter!
Something on slashdot for those people like me, who use lynx (but are illiterate).
asciiartfarts has to be one of the funniest sites on the internet. A little crude, but hilarious.
Here's a few recent favorites.
Holy crap! I think these site can withstand the Slashdot effect! All they're serving up are textfiles! =)
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
You can find unicode are at here.
Don't forget the TextNES emulator-- a NES emulator that uses ASCII text output in a DOS windows for the graphics. Really cool! I'd like to find the source code to this thing and port it to Linux/ncurses. If anyone knows who wrote this, let me know.
...just my 2 gil.
Don't you find it incredible that you misspelled the word 'art' twice in a row?
If you're wondering how loads of those ascii-pictures are made, check out BG_ASCII. It's a wonderful program (Yes, it can convert JPG to ASCII), and by the looks of things, this is what they used. If you're loooking to do original ASCII art, check out Email Effects, and check out #SAC on EFNET for the Superior Art Creations!
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You're the second person who mentioned that, its supposed to be a joke. I got it from an old UserFriendly cartoon about a guy interviewing for a job and mentioning that.
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handey
I'm not the parent, but I just wanted to point out how great it is that nobody reads comments before posting. Not only was that same sentiment posted 15 minutes ago, it was also responded to by the parent explaining that it was a joke (apparently from UserFriendly - I dunno, I don't read that awful comic). So good job out of you!
Excellent resource. Much better than most of the submitters links.
I just had to take this opportunity to point out what I consider to be one of the most amazing pieces of ASCII art ever done -- from the Church of the Subgenius website, a 3d stereogram picture of JR "Bob" Dobbs, by Mike Jittlov, director of the low-budget cult classic, The Wizard of Speed and Time.
If I want to find tools for bitmap/vector drawings, I have no trouble of getting it, but as far as an ASCII drawer, even the best tools are as primitive as Windows Paint (in fact, Windows Paint have better tools for drawing primitives). TheDraw is out of business long time ago, and lack of object-based features of current tools make every work tedious and frustrating.
As for converting images to ASCII, although there are many tools for that, finding the one that can detect edges, and take advantage of edge antilaiasing using the character is close to none, let alone exploiting Unicode. If you want to feed the raw image through OCR and convert them to text as output, you can forget about it.
Unless there are better tools for manipulating ASCII/Unicode art, it's doomed to become obsolete.
this is an actual line (chain?) printer printout from the early 80's. you can see its yellowing and I'd like to reprint it on a modern printer.
but I don't have the source. it was on an old DECsystem-10 or -20 many years ago:
spock ascii poster
any pointers to this multi over-print goodie?
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Reminds me of a keynote speach i heard by Jason Scott (the textfile.com guy) about how he got in trouble at school for selling ascii porn. His reply when called into the principals office and presented with the evidence was, "I dont know what you see sir, but all i see is a bunch of letters and numbers on the page."
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Some of the best artists can be found at:. ice.org (mostly ansi). org
http://www.chemical-reaction.org
http://www
http://www.acheron.org
http://www.remorse
http://www.wasted.nu/woe/01/ascii/
Downmix - The Artscene News Source!
A bit like TTYQuake, but being new & up-to-date
http://icculus.org/~chunky/ut/aaut
Gary (-;
I'm wondering if Unicode would be better for doing ASCII art?
Those are big singing dicks!
I'm not kidding. If I had more time I'd translate the whole thing, but it's basically a send-up of traditional Japanese festival song.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
Does anyone else see the irony in 32-bit colour ASCII? Geez ...
----- rL
I can't get the Java player applet to work, firewall problems I suspect. (I think the applet starts and then bombs trying to retrieve the movie).
Is the text files downloadable from somewhere ?
Now wash your hands.
telnet atztoj.i-am.ru
During the heady days of Amiga BBSing I was involved with several individuals on the 'scene'. One such individual was a good friend of mine called TANGo. He was (is?) a decorated ASCII artist well respected in the scene. He has recently placed all of his ASCII work online for your delectation. You can see it all here:
.lzx decompressor..
Link
He won several accolades at demo competitions, and was involved with some famous names on the scene at the time. You'll need some sort of
we wouldn't have Unicode.
suck on that.
Compare:
Cable/DSL line: 39.00/mo
OK homebuilt PC: 500.00
Lots of pr0n: incl
vs.
Cheap dialup: 9.95/mo
old Wyse terminal: 10.00
Used external modem: 10.00
Hammer to smash head until ASCII pr0n looks OK: 5.00
Lots of pr0n: incl
For those days you want to impress your friends, there's a PC, for everything else there's ASCII Pr0n.
Trolling is a art,
I agree. This is actual hand-crafted ASCII art, not merely running some JPG through a converter.
The high-color conversions have a neat look, but as "art" it's underwhelming.
oh cmon, you just knew at least 30 people would post links to ascii pr0n, it might as well be me, because i love you, and care for you. http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/ http://www.spacebarcowboy.com/ascii/a-z/a-z.html
This sig was cut off by the sla
The Amiga ascii scene (Now often refered to as the "oldschool scene"): :) If you really want to have a closer look, though, check out the works of e.g. Mark Ryder, Grimlock, and... no, too many to mention. All collections should be viewed with CygnusEd in Topaz 8, even though your browser could do the trick.
From the early 90's people made "collections" - large textfiles - with logos (file_id.diz, bbs adverts, demo group names, etc), and later rants, poems and other forms of self expression. Tools of the trade: Slash, backslash, underscore, pipe, you get the idea.
Freshpla.net has a pretty good (though not updated) archive. Yes, I know, this might be look like madness to, hm, laymen
The blockstyle scene
These are the nice people that make most of those NFO files. Uses the blocks in the MS-DOS charset. Two of the biggest groups are Superior Art Creations (SAC) and Chemical Reaction (CRO). Get the Damn NFO Viewer (Win32).
The newschool scene :)
Seems to be the part of the group-based ascii scene that stays furthest away from the warez scene. Uses e.g. $$$$$$ to fill shapes, and various other characters to make their outline smooth. Only active examples I can remember at the moment are Mimic and Remorse. Ansi happens
The Ansi scene
Ascii is ascii and ansi is ansi, but these scenes are closely connected. Colourized art using the MS-DOS font. There can only be one: ACID. Viewers available for most platforms, just use Google.
...and then, of course, there are those other forms of ascii art, as the hilarious The Adventures of the Boy with Immovable Hair and this wonderful flash anim synced to an Offspring song (Might be from the same author as that flash link in the parent post).
I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
Click me!
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
2002 the year for ASCII? yeah, i think this is a year late for that :)
Does it bother nobody that NONE of the pages linked above work in Lynx or links?!?!?!?!
What a shitty world we live in.
There is actually an ASCII video codec. Some of the slickest $hit I have seen in a while and the compression of those frames is phenominal
It's pretty obvious that he copied and pasted.
After all, who could be bothered to type such a lengthy comment twice?
What a sad state you people are in when you mod up semi-porn to informative! Like you freaks really need MORE porn!
I also scan the linux kernel mailing list now and then, and the flamewars there dwarf those on the freebsd lists by orders of magnitude.
Nevertheless, things continue, nobody (afaik) is thrown out for bad behaviour -- at worst, Linus insists on an intermediary to filter the discussion/patches -- and very few have ever walked away in a huff. Newcomers are made to feel welcome. In contrast, time and again newbies complain about the elitist attitude of FreeBSD. That can be excused, or at last "argued away", but throwing out someone of the calibre of Matt Dillon is beyond belief. Maybe that's the real reason linux is more successful in the real world. At least the FreeBSD core team should think about it.
yeah, what he hell? that was a really poor "news" story. I was very disappointed. If I was a slashdot member (and this is why i don't bother, cause of this crap) I would mod your post up buddy.
I agree. This article was just a piece of shit.
rox so bad :)) sogamed.com did a nice job with their ascii design.
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FunPic
Pimps Quest
CutiQuake
Well, if you don't find the software version, you could just retype it yourself.
Ya know, while your at work or something.
Damn link to pharmacy site! BAH!!
ANSI is where it's at.
INSANE CREATORS ENTERPRISES REPRAZENT! Keepin' it real, kickin' it old-skool.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
asscii.com
It cheats because it uses color. But makes up for it by providing an ASCII chart.
: )
badung chhhh ah thankya thankya
I dunno about finding the 'source' for it, though.
make world, not war
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I don't read very many AC comments, unless they are direct replies to mine.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You should see what Japanese people make with SHIFT-JIS. One of my favorite examples of this insanity is here
Miro Jurisic and Alexandra Ellwood wrote an extension called asciiMac for the MacHack '98 Hack Contest, and it won first place. It turned your screen, real-time, into a full-color ascii-art display. I was there. It was amazing and the crowd went wild.
if you have an apt with super cow powers, try this:
apt-get moo
But you knew this already, right?
ASCII art was my brief claim to fame back in 1990, as it seemed that half of the sig files on usenet incorporated part of my ASCII depiction of The Simpsons
The ironic part was that I "drew" it on a 3270, so it was actually EBCDIC art until it hit the BITNET/USENET gateway!
How do I automatically ASCIIize a picture? I have a jpg here that I'd very much like to see on my vt100 terminal - how can I do this??
Thanks!
jeremy lives here
warz0ne
dabitch
Timeo idiotikOS et dona ferentes
It isn't quite ASCII, but I set up an anime ANSI archvie at http://www.templeanime.org/erik/ansi/ If you have anime anime ANSI that isn't there already, please email it to erik@templeanime.org.
Well. I'm happy to report that a machine speced: 1.5Ghz, 256MB, Mozilla can display it. It will take awhile though, even on a broadband connection.
textfiles.com is a good repository of "BBS era" text files. Specifically a good selection of ASCII art. (Be nice and don't all hit the the same page, the main site has mirrors)
That's one of the nice things about using a text browser like Links, lynx, or w3m -- you don't have to see the cheesy bitmaps unless you want to.
Mainframe/UNIX Bit Twiddler and long time Windows/Linux Hobbyist.
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
You mean I have to use Flash to see ASCII? Damn, you kids today have it easy! Back in my day all we had were ASCII Terminal Programs and all we could access was ASCII and... oh, wait...
Besides which said ASCII art turns out to be some crazy ass Japanese porn animation with sound... using ASCII characters (in the above mentioned Flash format). Weird weird weird.
Nihon-go wa dewa arimasen
Or something like that... :)
I think I'm going to record that soundtrack and blast it from my car. Should be interesting to see what looks I get!
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
P133, 64M ram, freebsd4.5 and NS4. What exactly was the problem with it?
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How can I distribute my delightful wit and soul-searing wisdom to millions of intelligent Slashdotters if I can not post?
hey wtf is up with the microsoft house article above this one? looks like /. isn't allowing comments on it. :/
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
.nfo anyone?
Long live internet piracy!
Here is what I think is a neat little application I wrote for an ASCII type screen saver. You will need to install the Visual Basic run times because this is just an exe. www.thepcdeals.com/Matrix.exe
200_3_ ?
SCNR
Ceci n'est pas une sig
an ascii ANUS??? //__/// /
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Repeal the DMCA!
Remorse 1981
Thuglife Ascii Archive
Some real ascii art, not random character garbage.
You have to look harder!
On the Sorted by Subject page, go to the anchors Self Portraits and Naughty.
For those who are extremely lazy (or not as desperate?):
ASCII1.HTML#VK1
ASCII2.HTML#portrait
ASCII2.HTML#knifeswordmotorsaw
ASCII7.HTML#VK
ASCII4.HTML#VKmermaid
ASCII5.HTML#Nothing
ASCII6.HTML#hotdogs
ASCII8.HTML#threelegs
ASCII8.HTML#witchdick
ASCII Teminal Programs??? Here's 5c, get yourself a real vt100.
Has anyone figured out the secret in jwz.org yet? (view source)
(In case anyone misses it, I didn't say that the Tux image wasn't art or wasn't interesting - just that it falls in a different genre than ASCII art. ASCII art uses ASCII characters to create the image, the Tux image used the Linux source code and colored those characters to create its image.)
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
the ascii artists of the day, and ones that still draw now, actually had SKILL, they worked by hand... all these ascii's here are just lame pixel art to ascii conversions, which is just stupid, unskilled, and hardly ascii at all. bleh!
sig.
Wicked Ascii Art
"I tend to think of OS X as Linux with QA and Taste", James Gosling, creator of Java
This, related, totally rocked my world... =)
http://taat.fi/tmdc/ (TMDC) Text Mode Demo Compo... Download the Invitation Intro...
Need "quality" stuff? Here's a perverted ASCII comic, The #musicdsp Adventures , which I drew last year - stories from the music digital signal processing IRC channel. Each picture is only 3 lines long. A tiny sample:
\õ/ Oh Bram! OH BRAM!!!
/\|\_o ..ah DJ Maus, DJ MAUS!!!
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Let's not forget about the Text Mode Demo Compo. Certainly some nice uses for ASCII.
Click me!
What's going on?
Here's an amusing rendering of the DeCSS source by Robert DeFusco (linked from the Gallery of CSS Descramblers).
If this actually gets clicked by many people it will crash quickly, but for the few that make it to the site before it's completely bogged down, Idle Dreams has a massive ANSI Art Library (thousands of art packs). I'm working on a new version, but this one is functional at least. Not the greatest bit of work, but the artwork is there.
Chinko momi momi momi momi momi.....
KIMOCHI!!!
No, Beowulf clusters can't imagine in Soviet Russia.
Do you have anything that isn't on mimic.ca's ftp?
I have no idea? Did they leech from me? This collection is from 1995-2000 and collected from newsgroups, personal friends and the ascii art mailing list. I've also dabbled a bit myself, so if they have THAT stuff, perhaps they really did got it from me or a 3rd party leecher ;)
"I tend to think of OS X as Linux with QA and Taste", James Gosling, creator of Java
Brings back memories of the time I took a hex editor to Silly Little Mail Reader and turned it into Hacked Up Mail Reader HUMR All the internal ansi art was changed, I made pirate ships and the like using the high-ascii pipes n' stuff. Took a lot of edit/run/look at screen/re-edit to get it just right, without breaking the executable, but I had a lot of time on my hands in those days.
Watashi wa chikyubutsurigakusha desu.
... of using flash and java to present ASCII art. Dumb fucking retards.
To me? Nothing. The original poster and, an AC had problems however. Mozilla under Linux rarely crashes. I guess most couldn't handle the size.
I wish I had some of my old content from the BBS days, did quite a bit of ASCII/etc art while pushing Renegade to its limits.
You may have some serious issues, man. theres nothing like that in there. Just a bunch of japanese characters.
On a BBS! Either click on my URL or telnet to eg.ath.cx
Granted some of these links are now repetitive, but many of the largest warehouses of ASCII art have yet to be mentioned. Listed in order of magnitude:
TEXTFILES.COM Computer Art Collection
Features a wide range of computer-oriented text-based artwork beginning with teletype (RTTY) art which predates ASCII. An archive of archives. http://www.textfiles.com/artscene/
The ACiD Artpacks Archive
Index and sorted by year. Hosts a collection of over 13 years of ASCII, ANSI, RIPscrip and other digital artwork. ftp://artpacks.acid.org/pub/artpacks/
The CHRIST Ascii Archives
Indexed and sorted by artgroup. The authoritative archive of IBM-PC and Amiga ASCII art. ftp://ftp.mimic.ca/pub/ascii/
Thuglife ASCII Art/News Portal
Acheron.org Art/News Portalhttp://www.thuglife.org
http://www.acheron.org
Joan Stark's ASCII gallery
-rMore mainstream but rich in content regarding the different facets ASCII artscenes. Unfortunately this site is constantly plagued by Geocities bandwidth caps.
It is amazing that this still crashes IE. When I first saw this a couple of years ago, it rendered fine in netscape, but caused IE to crash.
Now, a couple years later, with a newer IE and a 2Ghz P4, IE still pegs the CPU trying to render it.
BTW, I use Galeon at home. Strokes rock.
There is also a translation of the first "Click me" in a flash file which I found here. Only the singing is translated, not all the Japanese text. The translation seems like it was done literally so it is a litte hard to follow.
There is also alot of other japanese flash files that appear to be done by the same person. I found a page of those here. Not all of them are ascii. but there are alot more that just the chinko one... This is one of my favorites cause they use The Offspring, and they have some cool effects like a guy who is running up an endless set of stairs.
I use Java Ascii Editor for a lot of documentation and email.
The movie features, I find a bit less useful, though...
I forgot to mention a site which deserves lots of attention: http://www.nerd-boy.net/
I just discovered these two programs on my computer and I must say that it's the freakiest thing to seek television and movies in ascii art. What's even freakier is that you can actually see the picures (sort of). Sometimes I think to myself why would someone do this and I am reminded of the generic reason for doing anything: BECAUSE I CAN!