Commodore 64 disk directory art – dir art – by Worrior1, 2022. Not all PETSCII characters are available in disk directories.
Reinhard Voigt, Porträt A.H., 1969Pixel art before pixel art – part of a current German exhibition at the Kunstmuseum entitled “Rasterfahndung” exploring the importance of the grid in contemporary art. More about the exhibition (in German) here
From Delaware’s Kiss before dying series (2005).
Paris, mai 1924 (?) by Man Ray, 1924.
Ian Parberry’s experiments with coloured ASCII in high (text) resolutions. One image uses 3 colours, and the other 4. Made in 2011.
Another experiment by Parberry in 2012.
Three-color ASCII Art gives you the option of rearranging the order of the CMY triples to give an embedded texture that is only visible at middle distances. The texture disappears when viewed from long distances. Once again, click on the images for a larger version.
More examples are available here. Parberry has made lots of experiments with colours and resolutions in ASCII-conversions. He also made typewriter art in the 1970s, as previously posted.
Amiga ASCII by sk!n. Detail from The Hendrix Experience, 2015.
キャラグラヘルパーCG HELPER, conversion for MZ-700
“You didn’t know that Compuserve sold posters of ASCII Art in 1981 but now you do.” / Jason Scott
Awetronics by Enzo and Avenging Angel for Blocktronics’ Codename Chris Wirth, 2009. via notendo
Post updated in 2024.
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VBS/VBSWG-Z, Visual Basic Script worm (2001). The Mawanella worm, named after a Muslim village, is yet another illustration of virus writers using malicious code as a political platform. Source.
By A Bill Miller
White Star Letter Combination from Palmer & Rey. Unknown date. via
PETSCII by Archmage, 2015.
Density by K.O Götz, 1962. Although technically more similar to pixel graphics, this computer animation looks rather textmode to all the whales in the house. Also available on archive.org.
Paul Rickards uses the Silver Reed Colour Pengraph EB50 from 1984 as typewriter and plotter. It’s like vector graphics on a typewriter. Photos and video here.