A report on ASCII art
Graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).
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ANSI art
3 linksComputer art form that was widely used at one time on bulletin board systems.
Computer art form that was widely used at one time on bulletin board systems.
It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS and Unix environments.
MPlayer
2 linksFree and open-source media player software application.
Free and open-source media player software application.
MPlayer can also use a variety of output driver protocols to display video, including VDPAU, the X video extension, OpenGL, DirectX, Direct3D, Quartz Compositor, VESA, Framebuffer, SDL and rarer ones such as ASCII art (using AAlib and libcaca) and Blinkenlights.
Monospaced font
2 linksFont whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space.
Font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space.
The failure of a proportional font to reproduce the desired boxes above motivates monospaced fonts' use in the creation and viewing of ASCII and ANSI art.
Typeface
2 linksDesign of lettering that can include variations in size, weight , slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on.
Design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight , slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on.
ASCII art usually requires a monospaced font for proper viewing, with the exception of Shift JIS art which takes advantage of the proportional characters in the MS PGothic font.
Courier (typeface)
2 linksMonospaced slab serif typeface.
Monospaced slab serif typeface.
Courier is commonly used in ASCII art because it is a monospaced font and is available almost universally.
AAlib
1 linksAAlib is a software library which allows applications to automatically convert still and moving images into ASCII art.
TheDraw
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TheDraw is a text editor for MS-DOS to create ANSI and animations as well as ASCII art.
ACiD Productions
1 linksDigital art group.
Digital art group.
Their work originally concentrated in ANSI and ASCII art, but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as tracker music, demo coding, and multimedia software development (e.g., image viewers).
Computer art scene
0 linksCommunity interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork.
Community interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork.
The earliest precursors to ASCII art can be found in RTTY art, that is, pictures created by amateur radio enthusiasts with teleprinters using the Baudot code.