Ascii art
ascii art
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(Or “character graphics”, “ASCII graphics”) The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly “|-/\+”).
See also boxology. Here is a serious example:
o—-)||(–+–||-+ | +-\/\/-+–o – T C N )||( | | | | P E )||( +–>|-+–)—+–)|–+-o U )||( | | | GND T o—-)||(–+–|A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit
Figure 1.
And here are some very silly examples:
|\/\/\/| ____/| ___ |\_/| ___ | | \ o.O| ACK! / \_ |` ‘| _/ \ | | =(_)= THPHTH! / \/ \/ \ | (o)(o) U / \ C _) (__) \/\/\/\ _____ /\/\/\/ | ,___| (oo) \/ \/ | / \/——-\ U (__) /____\ || | \ /—V `v’- oo ) / \ ||—W|| * * |–| || |`. |_/\
//-o-\\ ____—=======—____ ====___\ /.. ..\ /___==== Klingons rule OK! // —\__O__/— \\ \_\ /_/
_____ __…—‘—–`—…__ _=============================== ,—————-._/’ `—…_______…—‘ (_______________||_) . . ,–‘ / /.—‘ `/ ‘——–_- – – – – _/ `——–‘
Figure 2.
There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the standard character names in the fashion of a rebus.
+——————————————————–+ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | +——————————————————–+ “A Bee in the Carrot Patch”
Figure 3.
Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
(__) (__) (__) (\/) ($$) (**) /——-\/ /——-\/ /——-\/ / | 666 || / |=====|| / | || * ||—-|| * ||—-|| * ||—-|| ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love
Figure 4.
(http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html).
(1996-02-06)
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