Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art 160
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."
Looks like Prodigy art (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Web 2.0? (Score:5, Interesting)
Carry on.
Scales up really well (Score:4, Interesting)
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 (Score:3, Interesting)
What ugly browser do you use?
Re:Seen this long ago for Mac OS X (Score:2, Interesting)
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html [nedbatchelder.com]
(apparently the site is down, someone must have already linked it from somewhere that drives traffic)