Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art

boogi78 writes "Remember ASCII art? This is the Web 2.0 CSS version of ASCII art featuring Homer Simpson. Here is a CSS G.W. Bush. There's also an program that automatically converts jpegs into 'CSS images,' but it's a Windows executable. I found no sources for it, but I got it to work with WINE."

Comments

Looks like Prodigy art

[jmauro]

Looks just like the block art from Prodigy from back in 1990's. All this tech and we're back to the same place as 1995.

Re:Web 2.0?

[pbhj]

Web 3.0 will be coming out with something truly fantastic... perhaps they'll introduce something called HTML? I know that was a tongue-in-cheek rhetorical question but ... I'm hoping "web 3.0" will have wide use of SVG. When I can design webpages like I design the previews in a vector editor ... no hang on, that might put me out of a job - please stick to the current mess.

Carry on.

Scales up really well

[Mathinker]

The big advantage of this kind of graphic is that it scales up to a nice sharp anti-aliased image as the user increases the text size. Well, at least Homer did when I tried it.

But of course, properly implemented SVG would do that just as well. It just lacks the super-geekiness of using something in an unintended way to get a useful result. And, of course, this way might have better support in some browsers than SVG.

Re:Nothing to see here, move along

[Nicolay77]

This is the first time I have ever seen the Homer rendered that bad.

What ugly browser do you use?

Re:Seen this long ago for Mac OS X

[maxume]

Watch him grow a character at a time:

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html

(apparently the site is down, someone must have already linked it from somewhere that drives traffic)