Mona By The Numbers
Probably the earliest example of computer-generated text art, put together in 1964 by H. Philip Peterson:
In 1964, H. Philip Peterson of Control Data Corporation (CDC) used a CDC 3200 computer and a “flying-spot” scanner to create a digital representation of the Mona Lisa. The image contained 100,000 pixels that were plotted using numerals, sometimes overprinted, to approximate the required density and took 14 hours to complete.Similar digital images of popular art, cartoon characters, and even nudes adorned the walls of corporate offices, labs, and computer centers throughout the 1960s.
You can find out more about the ‘Digital Mona Lisa’ here, and there is an online viewer for closer inspection here
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Structure-based ASCII Art ( Xuemiao Xu, Linling Zhang and Tien-Tsin Wong). ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2010 issue), Vol. 29, No. 4, July 2010, pp. 52:1-52:9.
Nude aka Computer Nudes aka Studies in Perception by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, 1966. While this is often called the first ASCII art piece, it doesn’t use any ASCII characters, and it was preceded by for example Digital Mona Lisa (1964).
Some hi-res scans here, thx to chicasyordinadores 4 the link. Also see this.
Coded by Jessica Stürmer, 2012.
L0v3 byt3s (2013)
Raquel Meyers (with Goto80, Zabutom, Linde, Johan Kotlinski)
for NET VVORTH ::: Closing Reception for Daniel Temkin ‘GLITCHOMETRY’
Buy it here: http://netvvorth.com/Catalog/works/Cosic
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
C64 vs MZ-700. This is Mikulas vs. Krampusz originally made in PETSCII by Hermit (below), converted to MZ-700’s textmode by Marq (above).
