VTG-01 – a low-budget kit to overlay text on video. Just plug in an IBM keyboard and you were good to go in 1999.
Made by David L. Jones.
Tag Archives: Australia
Dogetronics by Avenging Angel (aka Savage) & Enzo, Blocktronics, 2014.
Lighthouse by Trevor Richards, City of Perth (Australia, 2013)
Koala Country was an Australian BBS, 1989-1995. More here.
Typewriter art by Ian Parberry 1975, partly using overstriking.
Here is my first attempt. It’s made from four sheets of typing paper glued together. If you look close up, it’s made using just a few letters including M, I, and M overstruck with X or $ to get the darkest shade approaching black.
The original source is borked, but this is more recent page. (Updated 2024)
Federation Square (2002), a building complex in Melbourne, Australia by Charles Radin and John Conway. It features pinwheel aperiodic tiling – the first known non-periodic tilings to each have the property that their tiles appear in infinitely many orientations. Via.
Oh no, more gabber! Following up the previous post, here is more Gabbeh carpets by Behruz Studio. You can see how Gabbeh shares a lot with textmode, compared to other Persian carpet styles that are more like pixel-based pattern art.