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I don't consider auto generated ASCII figures (from aalib or libcaca or similar) to be art. To me, art implies there is an artist behind the work of art or the
by exDM69 15y ago
I don't consider auto generated ASCII figures (from aalib or libcaca or similar) to be art. To me, art implies there is an artist behind the work of art or the technique used to generate it.
Real artists do their ASCII art 7 bits at a time.
- morsch 15y agoIn that case the developer of the converter (library) is the artist. I'm sure there's a lot of creative input involved in auto-converting a raster image into an ASCII figure.