Image-to-text conversions made in Chafa by its author, Hans Petter Jansson, 2025. The first two use the Terminus font and the bottom two use Blapinus. The original Himeji image is 3.4 MB in the PNG-format, while the 200-column text version is less than 0.9 MB. A JPG in 90% quality is 724 KB while a gzip-compressed 200-column text version is 230 KB.
ATASCII in MMoDA, an Atari ST demo by pépé, 2021. Art history converted into multi-screen ATASCII-pictures.
Work stages for Normand Veilleux’s ASCII Mona Lisa, 1994. From his tutorial about manually converting images to ASCII using a grid.
By punksdistorted, 2023-2024. It looks like it’s the MZ-700 font.
Amiga ASCII by Dino, while he was in the infamous Skywalkers graffiti crew. From various collies 2000-2002.
PETSCII (and some pixels) by Max Capacity, 2011.
PETSCII-works by Max Capacity, 2012. The first two are mixed with pixel graphics.
