Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this. One of the ...

ASCII art is as much a part of the Internet as emoticons, cats, or lol. We're talking about pictures made from text: letters, numbers, and special characters like # * and . They look like this.

Peter Nitsch of Teehan+Lax has been experimenting with new ways of interacting with ASCII art that go well beyond static text images. His latest project combined a projector and a computer too allow ...

Back in the 1960s, some genius at Bell Labs figured out how to use the language of his computers to draw pictures. This art form is called ASCII art and although it requires a computer to make, the ...

Like many art forms, especially digital ones, ASCII art began as an exercise of working within limitations. It involved using the limited, fixed-width ASCII character set to create recognizable images ...

free and open-source web-based application for creating and editing images consisting of text characters and hieroglyphs (ASCII graphics / Shift_JIS art / Kaomoji and many others). Decorate your text ...

Long before Microsoft Paint was embraced as the computer art style of choice by the Tumblr generation, there was art made with the humble ASCII. These artworks are created using only the 95 printable ...

If you look hard enough, most of the projects we feature on these pages have some practical value. They may seem frivolous, but there’s usually something that compelled the hacker to commit time and ...