Tag Archives: conversion
PETSCII wobble by James, @uniquename654.
Knitted ASCII-scarf from Glitchaus, available here. It’s an Atari ST image file read as a text, displayed with the MS DOS font (code page 437), then knitted.
Hatsune Miku in 1000 layers of ASCII characters, by James Lyle. Full video here.
Texttop (2024-update: now called Browsh) converts your computer screen into text (coloured block characters) and sends it to you, while you’re on a crappy internet connection somewhere else. Finally you can stream Gangnam Style in the forest! By Thomas Buckley-Houston. h/t: r r mutt
Teletext offline reader, a brand new tool to browse teletext on Commodore 64. Very inconvenient = very good.
Viznut’s image-to-text conversion, using unscii-8 with 256 colours. Unscii is a set of Unicode-compatible fonts based on fonts from 80′s platforms and games. Download here.
Line-drawings (a) converted by two ASCII-converters (b,c), by a new deep learning technique (d) and by “artist” (e). You can try the deep ASCII converter on the web and read the recently published article here. Or at Motherboard.
