- Bats
- They’re bats. One could be batman’s signal, the other is a flying rat.
- Bill the Cat
- Two versions of Bill from Bloom County.
- Dancing Bears
- You only recognize that they’re bears if you’re familiar with the bumper sticker. They look a little like Rock’em Robots.
- Sesame Street and the Simpsons
- It’s an ASCII family photo. Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Bert, and Ernie; and the Bart, Lisa, Marge, Homer, and whoever that little kid is.
- Winnie ther Pooh
- “I have tried to smoothen up the ‘quickie reduction’ version of the Winnie the Pooh picture. My girlfriend finished the work I started. You’ll find the result below.”
More ascii art
- Create your own ASCII art palettes with densitySort
- You can create your own ASCII art palettes from special (fixed pitch) fonts and specific collections of characters, using the densitySort script here.
- Random colors in your ASCII art
- One of the great things about writing your own scripts is that when you need new functionality, you can add it. I needed random colors in a single-character ASCII art image. It was easy to add to the asciiArt script. Here’s how.
- Hello World in Amber
- A hello world too retro even for me.
- Have a Merry Scripting Christmas with Persistence of Vision
- The ASCII Merry Christmas from Astounding Scripts was taken from a scene I created in Persistence of Vision. It’s a very simple scene that highlights many of the advantages of using POV to create images.
- A thousand points of color: give your photos a pointillist turn
- I had far too much fun with that kleenex mask in the book. Here’s a more serious look at creating pointellated images using the asciiArt script in 42 Astounding Scripts.
- Three more pages with the topic ascii art, and other related pages
