Rubirosa, flatweave carpet by Marianne Richter, 1958.
Tag Archives: sweden
C64 BBS logo for Illusion of Reality by Houbba, probably early 1990’s.
PETSCII-logo by Tao for the BBS Virtual Light, online 1996-1998.
By Absent Spinsister, 2000-2004. The last one is a collaboration with Ansichrist. More Spinsister at sixteencolors.
Happy 45th birthday to the oldest teletext service, SVT Text in Sweden. BBC was first, but they stopped doing teletext in 2012. According to recent polls, SVT Text is used daily by 15% of the Swedish population.
By Absent Spinsister, 1997-1998. More at sixteencolors.
Märta mossa by Zheng Bo, 2023. Moss-rendition of a detail from Märta Måås Fjetterström’s Hästhagen, 1923. High-res photo available here.
Chafa by Hans Petter Jansson converts images and video to text for terminals. We posted about it before but there are new example images that demonstrates how e.g colour and character sets affect the results.
Original
16 colours, compatible with many terminals
24-bit colour
2 default terminal colours and allows control codes for inverted characters.
240 fixed colours
No colours, no control.
Original
ASCII-fill (16 colours)
Braille fill (16 colours)
No fill (16 colours)
Peter Ström from Konst & Teknik has designed for the ISSUES gallery using no less than 57 fonts, which has earned him an FIU award for stupid records. h/t: Roel Nieskens