Ascii Art
Since my collection of ascii pictures has grown I have found it necessary to divide this section of my homepage into a few smaller parts. I made most of the pictures in this collection (hopefully it is obvious which ones are not made by me). I have not put my initials on every picture but if you intend to copy more than just one or two of them I suggest that you add either my initials, "VK", or my full name, "Veronica Karlsson", to them.
Updated: 8 April 2009
FAQ
Q: Can you draw a picture for me?
A: First, check out Andreas' collection.
If you don't find anything useful there, ask in alt.ascii-art.
Q: Can you help me with a technical problem?
A: First, read The FAQ.
If that doesn't answer your question, ask in alt.ascii-art.
My pictures
General collection
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Special collections
The pictures from my advent calendar: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 NEW!
Junkyard 1 (ludd), Junkyard 2 (sm) - General garbage directories (enter at your own risk!)
(For those who are looking for something specific I have added an alternative page with links to all the pictures, sorted by subject. However, if you want to see all my pictures, or just my newest pictures, looking at one file at a time is probably more efficient.)
"Interactive" things I have made (CGI)
My very own ascii art chat room (check out the Chat Goodies)
Plastic bag toy. Warning! Only works in some browsers.
(confirmed so far: Mozilla, IE6, Netscape 7.1)
This toy uses CSS to place a picture as a background in a textarea. This allows you to draw pictures with the "plastic bag" method.ASCII-to-HTML makes an HTML version out of an ascii image (but only the image, you'll have to add things like "HEAD" and "BODY" and so on yourself). I've also made a Javascript version of it, which you can save to your hard drive and use off-line.
ASCII purity test. This little program tests if your ascii art is "pure" ascii. The usefulness of this test should be obvious for anybody who has received a comment in alt.ascii-art about using "bad characters".
Related Links
The Ascii Art FAQ! (2002) Read this document before asking any questions in alt.ascii-art!
(There are also: Matthew Thomas' FAQ (1998), Bob Allison's Ascii Art FAQ (1996), Jorn Barger's Ascii Art FAQ (1993), Martin Atkins' mini-FAQ and Warning: Control Codes!)Ascii Art Tutorials Every ascii artist out there seems to have written an ascii art tutorial. I have collected some of them here. Enjoy!
- Link pages
Open Directory Project - Arts: ASCII (edited by Laura, a.k.a. Shedragon)
Cbel's ascii art links. Nicely sorted into categories.
Links to Ascii Web Pages (by Joan Stark and Allen Mullen.
Warning! contains pop-ups).
Figlet converts text to big "ascii fonts". Figlet is good! Figlet will clean your kitchen! Figlet will cure your headache! Get Figlet!
JAVE (Java ASCII Versatile Editor) is one of the more interesting (read: runs on my computer) ascii art editors. It includes gif-to-ascii functionality, Figlet generator, and other useful things.
GIF2TXT Yet another attempt to "convert" gif images to ascii "art". (I guess my link collection would not be complete without one, even if they do all suck.)
alt.ascii-art at the site formerly known as Deja.
Newsgroups
- alt.ascii-art (The ascii art newsgroup!)
- rec.arts.ascii
(aaa's moderated sister group,
which is, unfortunately, quite dead.which has been brought back to life again, lets see what happens...) - alt.ascii-art.animation (About animating ascii art. Most of the time it's empty, but occasionally you can find some really interesting things there.)
- alt.binaries.pictures.ascii (A binaries group about ascii art. Useful for posting, e.g. screen shots or gif or jpeg pictures that one wants help with "converting" to ascii (such pictures should not be posted in the text-only groups))
- pl.rec.ascii-art (A Polish group. Lots of miniature pictures and some really talented artists can be found there.)
- de.alt.rec.ascii-art and kiel.ascii-art (two German groups)
Web rings
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This ASCII art web ring
site owned by Veronica Karlsson.
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