Generative and coloured Unicode works by Ignotus the Mage, 2013.
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Monodraw – an ASCII-editor for the Mac under development. It’s presented primarily as a way to model ideas and structures, rather than making art.
Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art – like diagrams, layouts, flow charts and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more.
source. h/t: prostheticknowledge. (and yes, technically it’s Unicode and not ASCII)
Kopimi Totem (2014) by Evan Roth features 7 wi-fi routers, whose network names together form an ASCII-pyramid. They all provide read/write access to the Piratbyrån archives.
source. Btw, does anyone know a Unicode font that displays those ANSI-gradient-characters nicely?
All displayable Unicode characters, one for each frame. Made by Jörg Piringer. It shows 49571 characters, compared to decodeunicode’s that shows 51,980. Possibly because he only uses one font? (Helvetica)
More info (and free poster)
2 hour video that shows all the 109,242 characters of Unicode 6.0. Made by the decodeunicode crew, apparently independent from the one that Jörg Piringer did.
Book with all 109,242 characters of Unicode 6.0. It’s 656 pages, made in 2011 by Johannes Bergerhausen & Siri Poarangan for the decodeunicode project.
The book uses 66 different fonts since there is no font that supports all Unicode characters. Images from here and here.
