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Computer printed ASCII-portraits by Jaume Estapa, 1968-69. Some of the earliest examples of this, after Mona Lisa (1964). More info here, more 1960′s ASCII here.
An obscure little program in German to convert images into text, using the words of your choice. It seems to be called RUTVIEW and you can download it here.
Naked PETSCII bouncings by Max Capacity, 2011.
Good shading in this ASCII-conversion by Loxosceles in 2001.
Pepe Trump, posted by noc33 on reddit.
In the 1960s, Eduardo Joselevich and Fanny Fingerman developed a technique to represent images with only four symbols. Full blocks or circles, in either black or white. They called it Fototrama and it was used at Olivetti and Philips for example.
More here.
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.