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Archeological maps in ASCII from 1975. A good way of visualizing spatial and other information simultaneously, and obviously a forerunner to both text adventure maps and modern cartography, as noted here.

Also check the typewriter maps, fat font for text-mode infovis & the virus map.

Dwarf Fortress by Zach and Tarn Adams of Bay 12 games, 2006. Part roguelike, part city-building freeware game presented code page 437 ANSI. Also see Wikipedia.

As of 2024, the game is still being updated.

Paintings by the early op artist Richard Anuskiwicz 1962, 1977, 2013.

Design 102 textile design by Frank Lloyd Wright, produced by F Schumacher & Co in 1957.

Poster for the Cohen Brother’s thriller Fargo (1996).

This is the Big Bang, sort of. It shows the gravitational waves of the oldest light in the world, discovered by macho science d00ds calling themsevels BICEP2.

So yeah. Only a textmode-ish style can describe the origin of everything.

Source

design-is-fine:

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

Nude from 1980, copied by Comet, 2001.

The following picture was hand copied from an old printout from a Univac 1100 computer in 1980. Old mainframe printers made each page with 132 columns and 66 lines per page.

Pages from Ben Nicholson’s sketchbook (2005). Labyrinths, France 13th century and Meander folding, 8th century Greek Geometric Vase. Thanks to bitcraft lab for the tip.