John Whitney’s 1972 work Matrix III remixed in ANSI by YouTube user skuzzyanimation, who has more ANSI-interpretations like this.
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FatFont
Specifically designed for decimal numbers whose boldness corresponds with it’s value, for use in data visualization:
The FatFonts technique is based on a new type of numeric typeface designed for visualization purposes that bridge the gap between numeric and visual representations. FatFonts are based on Arabic numerals but, unlike regular numeric typefaces, the amount of ink (dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This enables accurate reading of the numerical data while preserving an overall visual context.
Fatfonts are designed so that the amount of dark pixels in a numeral character is proportional to the number it represents … This proportionality of ink is the main property of FatFonts. It allows us to create images of data where you can read the numbers, and represent tables that can be read as images.
You can find out more about the project here
Well-made shift-JIS conversion of the Bad Apple video. It is a meme that grew out of the Touhou project – the world’s largest collaborative shooter game series. The first game was made in 1996 for the PC-9801 and had nice FM-music.
Nude by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, 1966. Contrary to popular belief, it does not use ASCII characters but various pictograms. In 1967 the image was printed in The New York Times, and it was exhibited at one of the earliest computer art exhibitions, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, 1968.
More here
ole.3 days-in-life image / birthday image by Miska Knapek, 2012. A birthday image made up of each date in his life.
The original resolution is huge, watch it on Flickr.
För Text-TV i Tiden, an exhibition initiated by Fredrik Olsson and Otto von Busch, 2010. It encouraged people to send in photos of the royal wedding in Sweden, which was converted into teletext and broadcasted on SVT Text.
pxl is an app by Rainier Kohlberger from 2012 that converts photos to textmodey graphics, trixels, and other modes. More screens here.
ASCII Rock by Yoshi Sodeoka, 2003. Classic rock videos by Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, ZZ Top, The Who, etc, converted to ASCII and accompanied by General MIDI renditions of the original songs. Hi-res videos available here.
Also see ASCII Art Ensemble.
Updated in 2024.