The Stillness and The Shadow [2013] by Wacek
Text-mode graphics by Tim Koch
with custom animated characters.
The last one is a remix of a picture by Jellica.
Ndebele house paintings from South Africa. A style developed after the Ndebele started fighting with the European farmers in 1883. Wikipedia:
These wall paintings done by the women of the Ndebele was their secret code to their people, disguised to anyone but the Ndebele.
An interactive videotex art work, part of A Hummer’s campaign to run for mayor of Toronto, 1982. A Hummer ended up at 2nd place with 10% of the votes. More here.
From the manual for Flow-Matic, for one of the first computers: UNIVAC. source
Entries by Jucke, Dino, Abba, Taper, Maktone and Goto80 for the Floppy 2005 PETSCII (C/G) competition
Here’s a few font experiments, more or less sensible, that you should be aware of:
- Heikki Lotvonen’s text highlighting that is built into the font itself. Does not use HTML, CSS or Javascript.
- llama.ttf that has an “AI” (LLM) built into the font itself, so when you write !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, every ! is replaced with a word. (check out the links at the bottom of that page too)
- Fontemon – world’s first videogame in a font.
Litterae Finis – Trauma (2013). Text mode production from the demoscene. Looks more ASCII than textmode demos usually do. Winner of TMDC15.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Military ASCII art from 1967 using a custom system that combined US ASCII and vector graphics, fit for 2400 baud distribution. More info also here.
Battle Tech Story. DOS-game from 1997.