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Victor Vasarely installation

2010s, 2016, ansi, conversion, terminal, unicode.

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Terminal graphics has a new technique to convert pixel images to text. It combines ANSI shading, Unicode blocks and true color and the results can be displayed in a terminal (given the right font and terminal software). More details here.

Made by Tim C. Schröder, 2016.

1910s, 1918, calligram, france, poetry.

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Il Pleut by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1918.

Source

1990s, 1992, ascii.

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By Terry Traver, 1992.

2010s, 2014, spain, teletext.

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Teletext love club at Tele 5 (spanish TV channel)

1960s, mosaic, pattern, toy, usa.

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Hammerons by Pressman, a building set from the 1960s, via.

2010s, 2012, c64, fax, petscii, print, sweden.

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faxforfolket:

‘Fax & Frankering for Folket’ performance.
Original “Echidna, Mother Till Alla Monsters” from 2SLEEP1

2020s, 2022, c64, demoscene, directory art, finland, petscii, scene.

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Commodore 64 disk directory art – dir art – by Worrior1, 2022. Not all PETSCII characters are available in disk directories.

2010s, 2014, conversion, font, petscii, uk.

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pixel8or:

An experiment showing Helvetica rendered in PETSCII characters. Moving the base image reveals clearer ways of rendering each glyph.

2010s, japan, shiftjis.

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Various works from utf8art.com. More Japanese Shift-JIS works also here.

shiftjis.

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Yaruo is one of the most popular Japanese ASCII characters, along with e.g Pedo Bear. The paper yaruo is from paper-craft.info.

1970s, 1979, PET, petscii.

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PETSCII kaleidoscope from Kilobaud Microcomputing Magazine July 1979. h/t: Tim Koch. Reminds me of In A Loop by Ate Bit.

2010s, c64, petscii, raquel meyers.

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Skål by AcidT*rroreast of Hack n’ Trade.
Release at BFP 2013

2010s, 2014, c64, demoscene, petscii, raquel meyers, scene.

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The Accident, C64 PETSCII by AcidT* 2014.

1800s, 1860s, 1864, book, embroidery, usa.

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design-is-fine:

The Peterson’s magazine, 1864. Geometric design for embroidery. USA. NYPL

2010s, 2015, c64, petscii, scene.

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Automatic Gentleman. PETSCII by Ilesj, released last weekend.

2014, germany, teletext, χχχ.

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German teletexxxt ads. Photos by Lord Nikon.

1980s, 1983, animation, character set, tools, Yugoslavia.

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The Galaksija computer and the graphics part of its character set. Designed by Voja Antonic in Yugoslavia, 1983. Screenshots from games and an adaptation of the classic Dancing Demon animation.

Also check µGalaksija, a single-chip remake of the Galaksija.

1979, 1980, 1980s, animation, canada, telidon, videotex.

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Graphic Variations on Telidon by Pierre Moretti, 1979 or 1980. Telidon was a Canadian videotex service with textmode and vector graphics and Moretti was the first professional artist to work with Telidon.

Video saved here, just in case. Previously featured here.

1970s, design.

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Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza cover album

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