Emacs has had SVG support for a while so you can get more than just ASCII art. See the svg-clock package on ELPA for example. This is what the code looks like:

Emacs has had SVG support for a while so you can get more than just ASCII art. See the svg-clock package on ELPA for example. This is what the code looks like: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/packages/svg-clock/svg-clock.el http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/package... Or for pixel graphics: https://github.com/gongo/emacs-nes https://github.com/gongo/emacs-nes