ONE CODE TO RULE THEM ALL
Artwork – ASCII Art
ASCII Characters and Binary code…. got to love this stuff.
Back in the day, ASCII was our only form of communication. In the late 90’s beepers and rudimentary multi-key cell phones could only text the old way. I would spend hours creating the best coded language to share with friends and this chart of characters became art.
For you younger folks out there, who may not know what I’m writing about – “ASCII, is a standard data-encoding format for electronic communication between computers. ASCII assigns standard numeric values to letters, numerals, punctuation marks, and other characters used in computers. In full: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.” – ASCII – Per Britannica. Take it or leave it. We use it for art… and pictographs.
Those days are in the past, I know. But it was still, fun while it lasted. Here’s a list of all the characters and binary codes to inspire your next piece of art. Don’t be shy, don’t keep your art to yourself! Share it with others.
RAW ASCII (has spacing issues, we know… #$#$@ browser… may repost if it doesn’t work)
ASCII Examples
Code Chart
War Of The Worlds
Dwight
Oh, and before I forget, we aren’t talking about generated artwork… we are talking about the good, the bad and the unusual character art. My personal favorite is the local “Skunk Ape”, “Grassman” or “Alien ‘Big Foot’ Hunter”. Just a few I recall from back in the day. Rules were broken below when ‘creating’ these ASCII images. ((SHOUT OUT)) to the artist who converted these TUX and Dwight images to ASCII. The TUX ‘piece’ may need to find it’s way onto a t-shirt or hat.
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