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ASCII art (lemmy.world)
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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Akchually 🤓 this style is called "kaomoji" and uses any Unicode characters, not just ASCII. Usually Japanese ones because it came from bulletin boards there and the computers could only be trusted to support the first few Unicode blocks (ASCII, Greek, math) and the Japanese scripts including halfwidth kana and fullwidth Latin. It uses specific fonts but not monospace ones, unlike ASCII art.

[-] hexabs@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Not to be that guy, but couldn't this have been generated? I'm guessing

drawing/painting - > edge detection - > line scanning - > ASCII substitution

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 month ago

Could be, but this type of ASCII art usually is hand-made. Diagonal lines are hard and look off, easily

[-] focus@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

If that's the case, I'd still be impressed that someone could have programmed that

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

There were / are a myriad of tools to draw and convert to ascii art that were popularized on the Japanese internet.

I’d imagine this was done in a tool like that.

[-] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Checkout acerola on youtube, he has a video on that, that leads me to belive its hand made.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I'm willing to bet it's hand made. To make sure those lines are exactly what can be represented with ASCII characters, you might as well do it by hand. If it were rendered to ASCII from a drawing you'd likely get tons of artifacts from that process. This is too clean.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

That is what I am thinking. Looking at the larger perspective snowball–flakes, there are 4-5 variations of the same 90° arc going from bottom to middle rjght. I don't think there are that many of the same arcs at slightly different radii (radiuses?) in ASCII but I could be wrong. Or it could be the low res.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

It's not strictly ASCII--look at the cat's mouth. But outside of using non-ascii, it looks inline with what was on usenet's art.ascii.art in the 90s. I could believe this was made by hand, possibly with a character-art specific drawing tool.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

I can't figure out what it's supposed to be

[-] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 45 points 1 month ago

Cat looking out a sliding door to a balcony. Steep angle looking down on an house.

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