Talk:ASCII art
In the press
- This article was linked to by Wired magazine today, June 2, 2005. —RaD Man (talk) 14:37, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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You might look up information on the calligramme and related things. --Daniel C. Boyer 18:24, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Pre-computer
I would be interested in having some acknowledgment on the page that the roots of ASCII art must predate the computer era, as people were making pictures out of letters a long time before that. --Daniel C. Boyer 15:27 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Can you cite any publications that use letter based pictures? LarryW 19:14, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I've been looking at examples of concrete poetry. Some of that might match the "pre-computer" aspect you are interested in. LarryW 15:47, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I know I saw a handmade typewriter-based image in a book (possibly even in my possession) some time ago; it was a beautiful picture of Queen Elizabeth II – but now, of course, I'm unable to find the book... Oh well, maybe I'll be able locate it somewhere, I'll keep you posted.
--Wernher 01:28, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- The first ASCII image that I saw was back in the 60's. It didn't use a computer. It used a Ham radio RTTY Teletypewriter and had been punched on a Paper tape. Persumably it had been composed by hand (computers were pretty scarce back then). It sure blew me away...
- About two weeks ago (circa June 2004) I saw on Ripley's Believe It or Not a fellow in India? who was doing absolutly amazing things with a manual typewriter and colored ribbions. He was making huge photoquality images, one page at a time.
- ErikFP 12:45, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Typewriter art does not belong under the category of ASCII Art because it was often created by overlapping characters (partially or fully). --Mekanik 20:46, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- That's somewhat arguable as its a bit of a gray area. ASCII is just a standard method of character encoding. There were teletypes (which allowed for overstriking) which used ASCII encoding rather than five-level (5-bit) Baudot / ITA2 encoding. There is evidence of overstrike art created from teletype machines using ASCII character encoding. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 11:18, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
ASCII Art Alphabets
Does anyone have some characters from a simple ASCII Art based alphabet to contribute to ASCII art? LarryW 01:47, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Here's one from China. It doesn't accept some characters like exclamation mark. The results are quite big, so they may not be "simple". --Menchi 01:57, Aug 2, 2003 (UTC)
Auto-generated image example
Does someone have a better auto-generated image that that one of Bush-II to show off that technique? Bevo 00:42, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Yeah, the Bush one is hard to see on any font size. And it's too big. --Menchi 00:44, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I think if we go smaller it's not very recognizable... - Hephaestos 15:42, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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Regarding the blackbird photo we use in the article now, could someone with better Wikipedia/HTML image scaling knowledge than me try and scale the photo to match the (vertical) size of the generated ASCII art picture? It would give the section a somewhat more instructive look'n'feel.
--Wernher 01:28, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
block style?
i was shocked to find no mention of the 'block style' ascii, composed of control characters 176-178 and 219-223, that dominated the BBS scene in the early 90s. i'd write the section myself, but im no expert or archivist in the matter. maybe some lip service to the BBS promo file too? surely it influenced the scene enough to merit a mention. PopeFauveXXIII 7-25, 02:46 PST
- That's not ASCII. Read the definition.--Grue 13:38, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Neither is "Japanese ASCII Art" (or "AA") and several other self-proclaimed styles of "ASCII art". A good majority of text-oriented character art makes use of non-ASCII compliant characters, such as ANSI art and Amiga ASCII art which uses supersets of ASCII. I've started ANSI art and Shift-JIS art articles to help address this. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 11:07, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
wow, there's no entry for ANSI art, either.
ASCII Art Gallery
I propose the development of an ASCII Art Gallery, showcasing the finest works from all schools of ASCII art (including the controversial neo-symbolistic and "leet" pseudo-style). A professional ASCII art curator would be ideal, however I realize the appropriately experienced are in rare supply. I am willing to donate some works from my private collection, some of which were purchased from the most notable ASCII art auctions in the world. ✈ James C. 07:42, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC)
- What is this "leet" pseudo-style of ASCII you refer to, pray tell? —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 11:13, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
the www.digitalmonalisa.com link — self-promo vandal?
Please look at User contributions of 66.24.33.166. The front page of the linked site stays it is for sale. Self-promo vandal? I'm now going to remove it from everywhere except this page, because, probably, it really has some relevance to ASCII art; although maybe if the value of the link is not very high, we should remove it anyway as a deterrent measure against using WP as an ad bulletin. If we want to retain it, maybe a better place for the link (if anywhere) should be at Mona Lisa? I didn't delete it from there either. BACbKA 22:18, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I deleted it from both places since, thanks to Hadal for additional insights on spam-fighting on WP. BACbKA 08:07, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I'm not so sure that it was intended as SPAM. It seems to be a legitimate piece of artwork which has travelled across the US to various technology museums, such as the Computer History Museum. It did however make its way into the computer art scene article, an irrelevant contribution, so I removed it. As for its placement in the ASCII art article, it was borderline enough (IMHO), so I left it in. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 11:11, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Techniques
I think the site should make better mention of different techniques such as line ('^^-..,__) shape ,d8P"*4b,_ and shade ##WW8800YYII((:: (Hmmm, I think this would look better in a fixed width font) .
Types of ASCII ART
Another example I've stumble a long time ago is 3D drawing using orthogonal projection. Here's an example of such drawing.
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Consider if it is suitable for the main article.
What am I looking at here?
What's that large mass of ASCII art near the top of the page supposed to represent? I can't seem to figure it out.