Appreciation For All Things ASCII 241
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?"
Oh no... (Score:3, Funny)
Only time I ever see ascii related stuff is (Score:3, Funny)
that and the quake mod done in all ascii for linux - has that been ported to windows yet?
Re:Only time I ever see ascii related stuff is (Score:2, Informative)
But since I already put the effort in (clicking on bookmarks is hard donchaknow), I'll put in a plug for my favorite Quake mod ever - check out ascii-quake at: http://webpages.onvoy.com/bobz/ttyquake/ .
Like they say on the site ... "people are starving to death in this world... and somebody had time for this..."
the obligatory...... (Score:2, Funny)
xao
Re:Question (Score:2, Informative)
One of the great ASCII artists: (Score:5, Interesting)
She may not be the best, but she's darn good. And she has some cool nude self-portraits ;-).
Re:One of the great ASCII artists: - mod parent up (Score:1)
Re:One of the great ASCII artists: - mod parent up (Score:3, Insightful)
The high-color conversions have a neat look, but as "art" it's underwhelming.
Re:NUDES ARE DUDES! (Score:2, Informative)
On the Sorted by Subject page, go to the anchors Self Portraits [ludd.luth.se] and Naughty [ludd.luth.se].
For those who are extremely lazy (or not as desperate?):
ASCII1.HTML#VK1 [ludd.luth.se]
ASCII2.HTML#portrait [ludd.luth.se]
ASCII2.HTML#knifeswordmotorsaw [ludd.luth.se]
ASCII7.HTML#VK [ludd.luth.se]
ASCII4.HTML#VKmermaid [ludd.luth.se]
ASCII5.HTML#Nothing [ludd.luth.se]
ASCII6.HTML#hotdogs [ludd.luth.se]
ASCII8.HTML#threelegs [ludd.luth.se]
ASCII8.HTML#witchdick [ludd.luth.se]
Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:5, Funny)
It's a sad sad day when you need to install java to view ascii
Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:2)
Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:1)
Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:2, Informative)
Unfortunately, I never saw it. I learned about it after, and have never found a mirror.
It would be VERY cool if somebody knew where a copy of this one day tribute to ASCII BBS sites could be seen.
Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:5, Informative)
What about... (Score:2)
Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:2)
Movie trailer [slashdot.org]
It relies on those "dithered" characters that dos had in high-ascii, but other than that it should play on any terminal that supports ansi-codes. The resolution is less than 79x49...
Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS (Score:2)
Stupid stupid stupid...
ASCII Movies (Score:1)
Re:ASCII Movies (Score:5, Interesting)
Ascii pr0n (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ascii pr0n (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ascii pr0n (Score:2)
Re:Ascii pr0n (Score:2)
Great. Just what we needed. ASCII Goatse.
Just metamoderated an ASCII art comment (Score:4, Funny)
It was pretty funny, but the guy links to the real thing all over his comment.
Re:Just metamoderated an ASCII art comment (Score:2)
But thank you very much for your constructive input.
Re:your sig (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:yawn (Score:2)
that's not art (Score:5, Insightful)
and the flash movie? well, you can't just jiggle around with the chars. it defeats the whole purpose.
Re:that's not art (Score:3, Insightful)
Why not a
There was a time when I wanted to see this genre make an impact on the art world, but after seeing that WIRED "illustration" (pasting photos inside text was one of the first things I learned in Photoshop) I think I'd rather it stayed obscure.
"Art" (was: "Re:that's not art") (Score:2)
Re:that's not art (Score:2)
If you like ascii prepare to be blown away... (Score:5, Interesting)
MPlayer (Score:5, Informative)
Re:MPlayer (Score:1)
Now, if I could only work out how to tell mplayer to use a smaller font....
Re:MPlayer (Score:1)
Re:MPlayer (Score:2)
Even better player called TextMedia 2.0 can be found here [planet-d.net]. It supports colors and couple different ascii modes.
For those of you who can't read Polish (Score:4, Informative)
Tux (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tux (Score:2)
I've been unemployed for months and still don't have that kind of time on my hands.
Re:Tux (Score:1)
That isn't ASCII art (Score:2)
(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.)
Cool post, lame sites (Score:5, Informative)
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?
The #musicdsp Adventures (Score:2, Funny)
Need "quality" stuff? Here's a perverted ASCII comic, The #musicdsp Adventures [student.oulu.fi], 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!!!
|
Its a shame... (Score:2)
i've got some ascii art for you... (Score:1)
(sad cat-in-the-hat)
Re:i've got some ascii art for you... (Score:1)
kirby dance!!!!
xao
I got the prefect anti-slashdot idea... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I got the prefect anti-slashdot idea... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I got the prefect anti-slashdot idea... (Score:2, Interesting)
Unfortunately, the technique I used for the HTML crashed Mozilla when I fed it bitmaps bigger than about 128x128. There must be something about rendering over a thousand span tags with different colored inline styles that makes the browser choke
Nice idea about the 'anti slashdot' script, but I think I'd go with redirects instead. While the load is high dump everyone from the most popular referrer to a low bandwidth version of the page. Heh. Maybe send them to 127.0.0.1 instead?
UNICODE FOREVER (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, it would make things more convenient.
Is it just me... (Score:1)
And, it's not using Ascii, as there are no japanese characters in acii.
Re:Is it just me... (Score:1)
Re:No, it's not just you. (Score:2)
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.
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
http://www.gwynnter.net/nodistractions/conv_dylan
i was giving it the benefit of the doubt, thinking somehow it was a kid's animation for a while... and then i was rudely shocked into realization.
NOTE TO EDITORS: i wish i would've had warning, i wouldn't've gone to that link had i known. ech.
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
hmm....
Great waste of 10 minutes (Score:5, Interesting)
If you really want to be astounded with some ascii craziness...
funny ascii - ascii art farts (Score:4, Informative)
Here [asciiartfarts.com]'s a few [asciiartfarts.com] recent favorites [asciiartfarts.com].
Re:funny ascii - ascii art farts (Score:3, Funny)
Jerkcity serves out black and white gif comic strips (thereby making this posting a bit off-topic, however given the context...). Hilarious if sometimes a bit hard to follow.
Re:funny ascii - ascii art farts (Score:4, Insightful)
/. effect (Score:5, Funny)
Holy crap! I think these site can withstand the Slashdot effect! All they're serving up are textfiles! =)
Really cool... (Score:3, Interesting)
The power apps... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: (Score:1)
ASCII 3d Bob, by Mike Jittlov (Score:3, Interesting)
It looks great, but what about the tools? (Score:1, Insightful)
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.
anyone know where to get this famous 'spock' ? (Score:5, Interesting)
but I don't have the source. it was on an old DECsystem-10 or -20 many years ago:
spock ascii poster [grateful.net]
any pointers to this multi over-print goodie?
Creative Computing? (Score:2)
I dunno about finding the 'source' for it, though.
Re:anyone know where to get this famous 'spock' ? (Score:2)
Re:anyone know where to get this famous 'spock' ? (Score:4, Interesting)
ASCII Pr0n (Score:4, Funny)
Some of the best artists... (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.chemical-reaction.org
http://www
http://www.acheron.org
http://www.remorse
http://www.wasted.nu/woe/01/ascii/
Ascii-art UT (Score:1)
http://icculus.org/~chunky/ut/aaut [icculus.org]
Gary (-;
Ironic? (Score:5, Funny)
Deep Throat ascii download ? (Score:1)
Is the text files downloadable from somewhere ?
"Artists inspired by plain text" (Score:1)
0ldSkool ASCII Art (Score:1)
Link [expressive-monkey.org.uk]
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
ASCII is cheap (Score:2)
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.
ASCII pr0n! (Score:1)
The many faces of ascii (Score:5, Informative)
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 [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 [superiorart.org] (SAC) and Chemical Reaction [chemical-reaction.de] (CRO). Get the Damn NFO Viewer [www.damn.to] (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 [mimic.ca] and Remorse [acid.org]. 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 [acid.org]. 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 [aol.com] and this wonderful flash anim synced to an Offspring song [geocities.co.jp] (Might be from the same author as that flash link in the parent post).
Re:The many faces of ascii (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The many faces of ascii (Score:2, Informative)
While we're at it, we should also mention ACiDDraw [tiscali.be], which some people prefer over TheDraw under DOS. Wanna draw under *nix? Try TetraDraw [dhs.org].
For Win32 there's a promising little app called PabloDraw [sourceforge.net]. The SourceForge page hasn't been updated for a while, but there's a newer, more stable version circulating. Ask around.
The above mentioned are all fine and dandy for blockstyle, newschool and ansi, but if you want to draw oldschool (and don't have an Amiga with CygnusEd lying around), you might want to use something like UltraEdit for Windows (or some other editor with vertical block selection) with SAC-OS.FON [stud.ntnu.no], a modified (added pixels, doubled height to fix perspective) Topaz font.
Are anyone drawing oldschool under Linux, and wanna share what tools they are using? Kwrite has block selection, but finding a descent (Well, familiar) font is pretty hard. Yes, courier can be used, but I'd rather wanna use SAC-OS [stud.ntnu.no]. If anyone knows how to convert it (Windows bitmap font) to something that is usable under Linux, feel free to do so :)
For more info on the ascii scene (Which still is alive, mind you), check out Acheron.org [acheron.org], or pop by #ascii or #sac on EFNet. People are also organizing oldschool ascii compos on #oscompo/EFNet on Sunday evenings, but I'm not sure if there has been any activity there lately.
First "Click Me!" translation (+5 Informative) (Score:3, Informative)
uhh...it's 2003 (Score:1)
asscii.com (Score:2)
It cheats because it uses color. But makes up for it by providing an ASCII chart.
asciiMac! (Score:2, Informative)
Simpsons EBCDIC Art (Score:5, Interesting)
The ironic part was that I "drew" it on a 3270, so it was actually EBCDIC art until it hit the BITNET/USENET gateway!
ultimate ascii weblog (Score:2)
jeremy lives here [wattle.id.au]
warz0ne [shacknet.nu]
dabitch [dabitch.net]
Wait Wait... There's Something Wrong Here...FLASH? (Score:2)
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!
Slashdot's Story of Today Has No Reply Button (Score:2)
if this actually took skill it might be cool... (Score:3, Interesting)
I used to have the largest collection on the net (Score:2)
Wicked Ascii Art [archive.org]
Re:I used to have the largest collection on the ne (Score:2)
DeCSS in ASCII (Score:2)
Here's an amusing [cmu.edu] rendering of the DeCSS source by Robert DeFusco (linked from the Gallery of CSS Descramblers [cmu.edu]).
ANSI Art (Score:2, Informative)
ASCII Warehouses (Score:2, Informative)
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 [textfiles.com]
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 [acid.org]
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 [mimic.ca]
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 [thuglife.org]
Acheron.org Art/News Portal [acheron.org]http://www.thuglife.org
http://www.acheron.org
Joan Stark's ASCII gallery [geocities.com]
-rMore mainstream but rich in content regarding the different facets ASCII artscenes. Unfortunately this site is constantly plagued by Geocities bandwidth caps.
Re:ASCII ownz j00 (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)