@thehatfox to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agoThe UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornographywww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square103arrow-up1421arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaremacniellinkfedilinkEnglish25•1 year agoI always thought that it’s Erotic Literature and not Text Pornographic… Since text isn’t graphic.
minus-square@AliasWyvernspurlinkEnglish35•1 year ago Since text isn’t graphic. Sounds like someone’s never seen ASCII porn before.
minus-squarewootzlinkEnglish6•1 year agoI wonder if one could make a renderer that translates ascii characters into squares of solid colours. Colour depends on the character. Zoom out far enough and you have a bitmap.
minus-square@BuddahrifficlinkEnglish5•1 year agoYour text renderer already does that. It’s why ascii art works in the first place. The blocks are just smaller than the characters. There are tools that faithfully convert images into ascii art to the point where they just look like the images with zoomed out enough.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoCongratulations, you’ve just invented digital images.
I always thought that it’s Erotic Literature and not Text Pornographic… Since text isn’t graphic.
Sounds like someone’s never seen ASCII porn before.
I wonder if one could make a renderer that translates ascii characters into squares of solid colours. Colour depends on the character.
Zoom out far enough and you have a bitmap.
Your text renderer already does that. It’s why ascii art works in the first place. The blocks are just smaller than the characters.
There are tools that faithfully convert images into ascii art to the point where they just look like the images with zoomed out enough.
Congratulations, you’ve just invented digital images.
Hey, you could make a
religionencoding out of this