Portrait of Jurriaan Schrofer made in 1987 by Total Design, using a font and script that Schroder made in the 1970’s. It achieves this effect not by changing the text characters, as ASCII-converters usually do, but by changing the weight of the type. More info.
Image from Frederike Huygen’s biography Jurriaan Schrofer from 2013.
Examples from clankill3r’s P5 Terminal Graphics, which uses the terminal to show things programmed in Processing.
Animations by Seo Hyojung. Based on Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird and van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
SRT 2 VIDEO by Ksawery Kirklewski, 2023. Displays a movie through the text of its subtitles. You can try it yourself: upload any movie and subtitle file at his website.
The Flipdigits Monitor by Ksawery Kirklewski, 2020.
Most ASCII-converters work with blocks, but this one focuses on lines and structures. It was made by Xuemiao Xu, Linling Zhang and Tien-Tsin Wong in 2010. The comparison at the end is between an artist’s work (a) and their software (b). More info and images here.
