5/7/2023 0 Comments Ascii art roses![]() ![]() Bit Rebels has a great post about some ASCII art made on a typewriter – quite a feat. Whether through nostalgia, the now-a-novelty factor, or a lasting and genuine appreciation of the technique, the mosaic of the late twentieth century still survives. Surprisingly, ASCII art never really died. Though (kids, avert your eyes for a second) to be honest, this was the only “graphic” in the whole game (you can look now, younger gamers). The above graphic is actually an updated version (color!) of the intro screen I saw when jumping on Telnet to play my Multi-User Dungeon game, Sojourn/TorilMUD. A time, yes, even before you had a “clip art” library on your “Macintosh.” In the early days of personal computing, screen graphics were made by carefully arranging the symbols and characters known as American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) into a modern-day mosaic. ![]() A time before multi-layer graphics with alpha channels and fancy compression. /etc/issue "2.Think back, real hard, to the time when Music Television actually played music videos and Chia Pets were common gifts.To create more ponies use util-say-git AUR and store them in ~/.local/share/ponysay/ponies and ~/.local/share/ponysay/ttyponies/ for desktop and TTY, respectively. To select a pony to display, run $ ponysay -pony x "message", where x is a pony. The syntax is the same, meaning $ ponysay message to say something and ponysay -l for a complete list of ponies. Why else would )įor full 256-colored cowsay-like art use ponysay (version 3.0 has 422 ponies). Note: The randomly selected cow is actually a toad chosen from a database with custom ASCII art $ fortune -a | fmt -80 -s | $(shuf -n 1 -e cowsay cowthink) -$(shuf -n 1 -e b d g p s t w y) -f $(shuf -n 1 -e $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2)) -n Display a random cow with a random facial expression and wrap long lines of fortune text:.( (computers) % A language that doesn't )Ĭomplex commands can be chained to produce detailed ASCII art such as this Futurama example. Random cow with fortune $ fortune -c | cowthink -f $(find /usr/share/cows -type f | shuf -n 1) The easiest way create a custom cow file is to use an existing one as a template. These files can be edited to the user's liking custom images can also be created from scratch or found on the net. cow text files located in /usr/share/cows, and all themes can be listed with the cowsay -l. emacs - Artist-mode is a built-in package in GNU Emacs that allows you to create simple drawings and diagrams using the Emacs text editor.sl - A steam locomotive runs across your terminal when you type sl as you meant to type ls.tty-clock - A digital clock in ncurses.TOIlet - Free replacement for the FIGlet utility.nyancat - Renders nyancat in your terminal.neo-matrix - Simulates the digital rain from "The Matrix".jp2a - A small utility for converting JPG and PNG images to ASCII.FIGlet - A program for making large letters out of ordinary text.cmatrix - Animation that plays in terminal based on the text from "The Matrix".catimg - Print images in a terminal with 256 colors support.cbonsai - A bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses.boxes - Text mode box and comment drawing filter.bash-pipes - An animated pipes terminal screensaver.Banner - Print large banners to ASCII terminals.Asciiquarium - An aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.ascii-rain - Comfy rain for your console written in C with Ncurses. ![]()
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