ASCII Street View by Teehan+Lax Labs
Interactive, brower-based WebGL-powered text-mode view of Google Streetview panoramas. Available in colour and green-terminal modes:
Real-time Ascii Art conversion of Google Street View panorama’s done in WebGL.
You’ll need Chrome, Firefox 8+, or another browser that supports CORS WebGL textures.
Coded by @peter_nitsch. Inspired by Sol’sTextFX library. Built with @thespite’sGoogle Street View Panorama library, and three.js.
Read about this at Teehan+Lax Labs.
Try it out here
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From The Plastic Typewriter book by Paul Dutton, 1993.
Although Paul Dutton finished this series of prints/smudges made from a disassembled plastic typewriter in 1977, this is the first publication of the entire work. It’s a lovely sequence of visual pieces: letters pressed on broken type, lines drawn in (presumably through typewriter ribbon), smudges, fragments of rock lyrics, ribbon rubbings, fingerprints, typed text, in short, a greatly enhanced set of textual elements. Given the replacement of the typewriter by the word processor, there’s a flavor of nostalgia, or perhaps metaphor (in the destruction of the typewriter) in this piece that may not have been originally considered.
Post updated in 2024.
Le Merle (The Blackbird) by Norman McLaren, 1958. More.
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
SOF2B 12291 120573, SOF2A 12289 100573, SOF1C 12285 060573 and SOF2C 12302 230573 by Jacques Palumbo, ca 1973-1975.
Stills from Graphic Variations on Telidon by Pierre Moretti, 1979 or 1980. The Telidon System was a videotex service developed by the Canadian Communications Research Centre (CRC) during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Video here. Post updated in 2024.
Primiti Too Taa by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton, 1987. More details on Wikipedia.
More typewriter animations
After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit by Shaunt Basmajian, 1989. He was stabbed while driving a taxi, and according to this Wikipedia page he died the year after from complications. But the page states that he was stabbed in 1986…
