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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen shape utilized in generated ASCII art

Ah, someone's never seen 8088 Corruption. The encoder was a brute-force comparison of source pixels with downscaled / blended characters in CGA's few available colors.

... wait, AAlib definitely uses shape. Is the author just new to ASCII art?

Killer effort, regardless.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    When I was in my teens and twenties, I used to believe that if I thought of something that I'd never heard of before, I must have been the first person ever to come up with it.

    Now that I'm older and the Internet is ubiquitous, when I have those moments I go straight to a search engine. And even if I'm not the first, I still feel pretty good about discovering whatever it is for myself.

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