ASCII Art Online

Europa · Post by **Europa** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:41 pm

For all those art directors looking at a way for another art style, ascii art has been an old way of drawing up high contrats images uses text.

ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII. The term is also used more loosely to refer to text based art in general. They can be created with any text editor, and are 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.
ASCII art originated because early printers often lacked graphics ability. 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.

http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/
lets you do it online. you get desktop software as well.

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Hasmukh · Post by **Hasmukh** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:12 pm

awesome! thats vimal's avatar, isnt it?

DesignBoyz · Post by **DesignBoyz** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:22 pm

Omigosh,
That's Vimal's visage!
Great link,
Will use it we think.

DesignBoyz

namzie · Post by **namzie** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:35 pm

is it vimal singh we're talking abt?

Hasmukh · Post by **Hasmukh** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:37 pm

yes yes, its vimal

tridip_nandi · Post by **tridip_nandi** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:24 pm

hasmukh this for u

http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/ascii.php

encyclomedia · Post by **encyclomedia** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:35 am

tridip, the session had expired so i made an icon for hasmukh:

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