ASCII art

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ASCII art is an artistic medium that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII. The term is also loosely used to refer to text based art in general. ASCII art can be created with any text editor, and is often used with free-form languages. Most examples of ASCII art require a fixed-width font (non-proportional fonts, like on a traditional typewriter) such as Courier for presentation.

One of the main reasons ASCII art was born was because early printers often lacked graphics ability and thus characters were used in place of graphic marks. Also, to mark divisions between different print jobs from different users, bulk printers often used ASCII art to print large banners to make the division between print jobs easier to spot so that the results could be more easily separated by a computer operator or clerk.

Uses for ASCII art

ASCII art is used wherever text can be more readily printed or transmitted than graphics, or in some cases, where the transmission of pictures is not possible. This includes typewriters, teletypes, non-graphic computer terminals, in early computer networking (e.g., BBSes), e-mail, and Usenet news messages. ASCII art is also used within the source code of computer programs for representation of company or product logos, and flow control or other diagrams. In some cases, the entire source code of a program is a piece of ASCII art - for instance, an entry to one of the earlier International Obfuscated C Code Contest is a program that adds numbers, but visually looks like a binary adder drawn in logic ports.

ASCII art is also very commonly used amongst software piracy groups to display group logos inside text (*.nfo) files containing the instructions for installing and cracking the software (though these commonly use PC text mode characters as well as just ASCII). An example of ASCII art predating the modern computer era can be found in the October 1948 edition of Popular Mechanics^*

Taking the medium to extremes, there exists a video driver for the popular video game Quake that displays the game in ASCII art. Another example of ASCII art in games is "Original War", a little-known game for windows, in which the cutscenes for the Russians are made up totally of ASCII art

Types and examples of ASCII art

The simplest forms of ASCII art are combinations of two or three characters for expressing emotion in text. They are commonly referred to as 'emoticon', 'smilie', or 'smiley'. Mentally rotate these examples 90 degrees clockwise for a more recognizable orientation:

-) or :) :-( or :( ;-) or ;) :-P or :p >:( :x

smile frown wink tongue out mad sour B-) or 8-) :-O or :O :-0 or :0 :-S or :S :D :? sunglasses shouting surprised confused laugh eh?

There is another type of one-line ASCII art that does not require the mental rotation of pictures, which is widely known in Japan as kaomoji (literally "face characters".) Traditionally, they are referred to as "ASCII face ". Some of the below, can also be referred to as Kirby, the Nintendo character. Today, some call them "verticons":

(^_^)       (-_-)       (X_X)       <(^_^<)^<)
happy        sad        dead          humping
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joyous     winking     conspiracy duck       thumbs up
(b_d)     <(^_^<) (>^_^)> ^('_')^ <('_'<) (>'_')>         (o_O) (O_o)
glasses          pointing / dancing               eye stare/"ookay!"/"what!?"
-_-˚                 (v_v)  (~_~)         ;_;    (T_T)
discouraged            sleeping/             crying
'˚' for sweatdrop      downcast          ',' for tears
        t(-_-t)                     (^_o)          ()*()
"Middle Finger" statement     Winking/Skeptical   Rear End
\m/(^_^)\m/                          (>'.')>
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"Bull" with thumb and pinkie                  Fireball
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More complex examples use several lines of text to draw large symbols or more complex figures. Some common examples:

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Other ASCII art ignores the particular shape of the characters and instead uses their overall boldness or lightness to create varying gradients.

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One use for ASCII art is to create unique typography, for example:

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Methods for generating ASCII art

While some prefer to use a simple text editor to produce ASCII art, specialized programs have been developed that often simulate the features and tools in bitmap image editors.

Other programs allow one to automatically convert an image to ASCII art, which is a special case of vector quantization. A method is to sample the image down to grayscale with less than 8-bit precision, and then assign a character for each value.

An example of a converted image, created using Ascgen dotNet, is given below, next to the original:

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Non fixed-width ASCII

Most ASCII art is created using a monospace font, where all characters are identical in width (Courier New is a popular font). However, most of the most commonly used fonts in word processors, web browsers and other programs are proportional fonts, such as Arial or Times New Roman, where different widths are used for different characters. ASCII art drawn for a fixed width font will usually appear distorted, or even unrecognisable when displayed in a proportional font.

Some ASCII artists have produced art for display in such fonts. These ASCIIs, rather than using a purely shade-based correspondence, use characters for slopes and borders and use block shading. These ASCIIs generally offer greater precision and attention to detail than fixed-width ASCIIs for a lower character count, although they are not as universally accessible since they are usually relatively font-specific.

Animated ASCII art

The History of Animated ASCII Art started in 1970th from so-called VT100 animations produced on vt100 terminals. These animations were simply text with cursor movement instructions, deleting and erasing the characters necessary to appear animated. Usually, they represented a long hand-crafted process done by a single person to tell a story. Nowdays we are still able to see these ancient art pieces using special player, for instance V6.10 for Windows. Rather big collection of VT100 files could be found here: http://artscene.textfiles.com

Contemporary web browsers gave new breath to Animated ASCII Art. It's became possible to produce animated ascii art using Java Script or Java applet which changes static ASCII art pictures creating the frame by frame animation. New term was born: ASCIImation - another name of Animated ASCII Art. This word came from www.asciimation.co.nz - the web site dedicated to total reconstruction of Star Wars saga in ASCII animation. This project started in 1997 and still continues. Nowdays there are exist a lot of tools and programmes transfered pixels of pictures into text simbols. Some of them can do it with streaming video. For instance, pop singer Beck has a music video "Black Tambourine" made up entirely of ASCII characters that approximate the original footage. A lot of programme produced asciimations you can find here: http://yagii.spik.swps.edu.pl/

But most powerful are asciimations made by hand, frame by frame. These asciimations always very individual and keep the style and feelings of their creators. JavE - Java Ascii Versatile Editor could be found one of the best free editors dealing with ASCII art and ASCIImations. There are very few sites dedicated to hand made asciimations in the web. Many of them are not updetaed from 1998-2000. One of the biggest and regulary updating is www.asciimator.net started in 2005. Here you can create and publish your own asciimation online.

Other text based art

There are a variety of other types of art using text symbols from character sets other than ASCII and/or some form of color coding. Despite not being pure ASCII, these are still often referred to as "ASCII art". The character set portion designed specifically for drawing are known as the line drawing characters or pseudo-graphics.

IBM PC

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So called "block ASCII" or "high ASCII" uses the extended characters of the 8-bit code page 437, which is a proprietary standard that was introduced by IBM in 1979 (ANSI Standard x3.16) for the IBM PC and MS DOS operating system. "Block ASCIIs" were widely used on the PC during the 1990s until the Internet replaced BBSes as the main communication platform for computer enthusiasts around the world. "Block ASCIIs" were dominating the PC Text Art Scene.

In the art scene the only popular ASCII style during this time that used the 7-bit standard ASCII character set was the so called "Oldskool" Style. It is also called "Amiga style", due to its origin and widespread use on the Commodore Amiga Computers. The style uses primarily the characters: _/\-+=.()<>:. The "oldskool" art looks more like the outlined drawings of shapes than real pictures.

Microsoft Windows does not support the ANSI Standard x3.16. You can look at "Block ASCIIs" with a text editor using the font "Terminal", but it will not look exactly as it was intended by the artist. You need a special ASCII/ANSI viewer such as ACiDView for Windows (see ASCII and ANSI art viewers) to view block ASCII and ANSI Files properly in Windows.

The IBM PC graphics hardware in text mode uses 16 bits per character. It supports a variety of configurations, but in its default mode under DOS they are used to give 256 glyphs from one of the IBM PC code pages (Code page 437 by default), 16 foreground colors, 8 background colors, and a flash option. Such art can be loaded into screen memory directly. ANSI.SYS, if loaded, also allows such art to be placed on screen by outputting escape sequences that indicate movements of the screen cursor and color/flash changes. If this method is used then the art becomes known as ANSI art. The IBM PC code pages also include characters intended for simple drawing which often made this art appear much cleaner than that made with more traditional character sets. Plain text files are also seen with these characters, though they have become far less common since Windows GUI text editors (using the Windows ANSI code page) have largely replaced DOS based ones.

Shift_JIS

A large character selection, the widespread use of Japanese on the internet, and the availability of standard fonts with predictable spacing make Shift JIS a common format for text based art on the internet.

Unicode

Unicode would seem to offer the ultimate flexibility in producing text based art with its huge variety of characters. However, finding a suitable fixed-width font is likely to be difficult if a significant subset of Unicode is desired. Also, the common practice of rendering Unicode with a mixture of variable width fonts is likely to make predictable display hard if more than a tiny subset of Unicode is used.

Overprinting

In the 1970s and early 1980s it was popular to produce a kind of ASCII art that relied on overprinting — the overall darkness of a particular character space dependent on how many characters, as well as the choice of character, printed in a particular place. Thanks to the increased granularity of tone, photographs were often converted to this type of printout. Even manual typewriters or daisy wheel printers could be used. The technique has fallen from popularity since all cheap printers can easily print photographs, and a normal text file (or an e-mail message or Usenet posting) cannot represent overprinted text. However, something similar has emerged to replace it: shaded or colored ASCII art, using ANSI video terminal markup or color codes (such as those found in HTML, IRC, and many internet message boards) to add a bit more tone variation. In this way, it is possible to create ASCII art where the characters only differ in color.

External links

ASCII and ANSI art viewers

ACiDView V6.10 for Windows Download Link

ASCII art editors

Editors created solely for the purpose of creating hand-made ASCII art.

ACiDDraw 1.25r ANSI and ASCII art editor for IBM PC DOS
The Draw 4.61 (PC/MS DOS) - 291KB Download Link
ASCII Art Studio 2.11 for Windows Shareware (30-day trial); allows freehand line-art illustration using the mouse
ASCII/edit Shareware (30-day trial); Mac OS X; objects can be grouped, overlap, combined, and intersection characters can be turned on or off individually for each line and frame
Email Effects ASCII art editor for Mac and Windows, also converts pictures and supports FIGlet fonts.
JavE Freeware; A java ASCII editor with standard Photoshop-style tools, image conversion, FIGlet support, math formulas editor and a lot of other features. Requires Java Virtual Machine.
PabloDraw for Windows Freeware; features a peer-to-peer "joint editing" mode
TextDraw Full color ASCII art editor for Windows.
TundraDraw A cross-platform ANSI and ASCII editor for Microsoft Windows and X environments. Source code available.
Open Directory Project: List of ASCII art editors
ASCIIart.net list of editors A comprehensive list of ASCII editors for DOS and Windows with informative reviews on each one
Ansilove/PHP A set of tools for converting ANSi/BiN/ADF/iDF/TUNDRA/XBiN files into PNG images
Stewdio ASCII Generate fonts built from ASCII art

ASCII art generators

Tools which convert bitmapped images to ASCII text or otherwise automatically generate ASCII art with a minimal degree of human interaction.

AA-lib A portable library which converts high-resolution images or video down to ASCII text images or 'video.'
APF An ASCII/ANSI color console MPEG/Video player.
Alternate's ASCII Artist A tiny Open-Source ASCII Art Generator written in C++ .
ASCII Artist A simple Art-to-ASCII generator.
ASCii.art 0.4 Freeware; An image bitmap to ASCII text converter. Supports conversion to colored ASCII using HTML color tags and features multiple image resize capabilities.
ASCII Generator Online; generates ASCII art text in a variety of fonts.
ASCII Generator (ascgen) Freeware; A 32-bit Windows program that converts a large variety of images to ASCII art.
ASCII Generator dotNET (ascgen) Open Source and improved version rewritten in C#.
ASCII Signature Generator Figlet Server - Online Ascii Art Signature Generator.
ASCII Stereogram Image Generator Online; generates free ASCII stereograms.
ASCII Stereogram Movie Generator Online; generates free ASCII stereogram movies!
Boxes GNU GPL; Draws ASCII art boxes around text. Useful for programmers.
Figlet text generator FIGlet font generator.
IMG2ASCII GNU GPL; Transforms JPG or PNG images to Unicode or ASCII text online.
IMG2ASCII Online Image to ASCII converter. (Product of NFO-Center.de)
IMG2TXT Online; Transforms JPG, PNG or GIF to ASCII text or colored HTML.
Imagetrix Full color ASCII art converter. Convert images to .txt, .rtf, .html or save the ASCII Art back as image (JPG or BMP).
jp2a is a simple JPG to ASCII converter
JASCiiArt 0.1 Freeware; Java Ascii Art generator for Windows, Linux, Mac OS. Reads BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG files and is able to generate HTML, RTF, TXT, BMP, PNG, JPG output ascii art.
JPG2ASC Online Image to ASCII converter. Converts JPG, GIF and PNG.
JPEGTOCHAT Public domain; converts JPG images to colored ASCII art.
Pic2ASCII Freeware; Transforms bitmaps to text (even analyzes symbol fonts). Reads BMP, GIF and JPG.
png2mirc Public domain; converts PNG images to coloured mIRC ASCII art.
Text-Image.com Online Image to ASCII converter.
Toogle An ASCII-art version of Google Image Search
Bmp to Ascii A .BMP to ASCII converter

ASCII art groups

ASCII art groups are defined as organized bodies of people dedicated to the purpose of creating ASCII text based artwork.

see Artscene groups

ASCII artscene portals

Boondocks - ASCII Scene Forums for PC and Amiga
Downmix - ASCII, ANSI, & Hires Scene News & Releases
Thuglife.org - ASCII Scene News, Releases, and Forum
Artscene.TextFiles.com - Art Scene Text Files Archive
^* - Visit #ASCII on IRC ( Undernet Network )

Uses for ASCII art

Types and examples of ASCII art

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Methods for generating ASCII art

Non fixed-width ASCII

Animated ASCII art

Other text based art

IBM PC

Shift_JIS

Unicode

Overprinting

See also

Further reading

External links

ASCII and ANSI art viewers

ASCII art editors

ASCII art generators

ASCII art groups

ASCII artscene portals

Other links

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Uses for ASCII art

Types and examples of ASCII art

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Methods for generating ASCII art

Non fixed-width ASCII

Animated ASCII art

Other text based art

IBM PC

Shift_JIS

Unicode

Overprinting

See also

Further reading

External links

ASCII and ANSI art viewers

ASCII art editors

ASCII art generators

ASCII art groups

ASCII artscene portals

Other links