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Title: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 29 July 2018, 17:56:02

I was reading about The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art (https://thenewstack.io/surprisingly-rich-history-ascii-art/) recently, which led to A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today (https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/23/typewriter-art-laurence-king/). and the PDF download of the referenced book (https://monoskop.org/File:Riddell_Alan_ed_Typewriter_Art.pdf).

Some of these are great!

Has anyone here created any typewriter art of note?

Title: Re: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sun, 29 July 2018, 18:09:46

Now that's cool, thanks for sharing. :D

Title: Re: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: SBJ on Sun, 29 July 2018, 22:38:57

Quote from: SpAmRaY on Sun, 29 July 2018, 18:09:46

Now that's cool, thanks for sharing. :D

Indeed. That's super cool.

Title: Re: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 30 July 2018, 05:50:28

Some of those would have taken hours to do.

I did a typing semester in high school on electric typewriters, and I don't think it occurred to any of us that things like that were even possible.

And a few of us were the computer nerds of the school too.

Title: Re: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 30 July 2018, 07:26:00

super kewl

Title: Re: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: xtrafrood on Mon, 30 July 2018, 11:43:54

Adding book to list. Thanks Rowdy! :thumb:

Title: Re: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: haanuman on Fri, 03 August 2018, 08:52:22

Nice, very nice to know about this. Thanks for sharing :)

Title: Re: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: ThoughtArtist on Sat, 01 September 2018, 01:15:44

ugh.. this is great, yet I feel due to the disparaging of modern art due to postmodernist nonsense, these true innovations of modern thinking get forgotten and underappreciated

as another example: dazzle camouflage on WW1 ships. Yep, never heard of it either and I'm literally entrenched in art and design everyday

Title: Re: The Surprisingly Rich History of ASCII Art
Post by: xtrafrood on Sat, 01 September 2018, 11:09:09

Quote from: ThoughtArtist on Sat, 01 September 2018, 01:15:44

ugh.. this is great, yet I feel due to the disparaging of modern art due to postmodernist nonsense, these true innovations of modern thinking get forgotten and underappreciated

as another example: dazzle camouflage on WW1 ships. Yep, never heard of it either and I'm literally entrenched in art and design everyday

UTF-8 is wonderful tho..