Akchually 🤓 this style is called “kaomoji” and uses any Unicode characters, not just ASCII. Usually Japanese ones because it came from bulletin boards there and the computers could only be trusted to support the first few Unicode blocks (ASCII, Greek, math) and the Japanese scripts including halfwidth kana and fullwidth Latin. It uses specific fonts but not monospace ones, unlike ASCII art.
I can’t figure out what it’s supposed to be
Cat looking out a sliding door to a balcony. Steep angle looking down on an house.
Not to be that guy, but couldn’t this have been generated? I’m guessing
drawing/painting - > edge detection - > line scanning - > ASCII substitution
Could be, but this type of ASCII art usually is hand-made. Diagonal lines are hard and look off, easily
If that’s the case, I’d still be impressed that someone could have programmed that
Checkout acerola on youtube, he has a video on that, that leads me to belive its hand made.
I’m willing to bet it’s hand made. To make sure those lines are exactly what can be represented with ASCII characters, you might as well do it by hand. If it were rendered to ASCII from a drawing you’d likely get tons of artifacts from that process. This is too clean.
There were / are a myriad of tools to draw and convert to ascii art that were popularized on the Japanese internet.
I’d imagine this was done in a tool like that.
That is what I am thinking. Looking at the larger perspective snowball–flakes, there are 4-5 variations of the same 90° arc going from bottom to middle rjght. I don’t think there are that many of the same arcs at slightly different radii (radiuses?) in ASCII but I could be wrong. Or it could be the low res.
It’s not strictly ASCII–look at the cat’s mouth. But outside of using non-ascii, it looks inline with what was on usenet’s art.ascii.art in the 90s. I could believe this was made by hand, possibly with a character-art specific drawing tool.
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But where is the code?
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is this really all ascii? some of those lines don’t look like ASCII characters at all
It’s probably unicode.
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