Has anyone seen ASCII/HTML art where a picture is created within a solid block of text by varying the colors of said text? I can’t seem to find a good example of it to show what I mean, but I’ve seen it multiple times so I think it’s fairly well-known.
Any idea how these are created?
You need a special video card to do that.
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I haven’t seen it since my BBS days (when it was ANSI art – using ANSI codes to render color in text)
I’m not sure how ascii art is generally created but from a console perspective, outputting coloured ascii characters is as simple as setting a few colour registers.
(This can be done through any programming language, or more directly through assembler.)
Eh, that’s not exactly what I meant.
I found an example (apologies to any easily-offended Nazis): http://www.chickenfrier.com/nazis.html .
I’m looking for something that will take an image and a bunch of text as input, and create a graphic in that style.
That is going to be manually done or else made with a custom program.
I was going to suggest AALIB, but it only does grayscale - and does not take the input text like you want to do.
Lots of software has been written to do this, but as it’s sort of a dying art form, most links you’ll find are dead. Here’s a list to dig through:
There’s a site that lets you convert GIF and JPG images into HTML text art:
What a totally cool website.