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So, as long it uses only text, it can be called ASCII art, not just characters from space to tilde (or null to tilde)?
by sukmaagung 2y ago
So, as long it uses only text, it can be called ASCII art, not just characters from space to tilde (or null to tilde)?
- mock-possum 2y agoColloquially, yes.
- mxfh 2y agoIts just 3 bits white plus those 7 box art chars. private Shade = '·┼╬'; [1] Would have expected something more sophisticated, where the shader also looks at subpixels, where it gets the best matching char for the shape and brightness. Like rastapasta map renderer did with the braille block: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975887 --- https://github.com/kciter/ascii-3d-renderer.js/blob/1f1a8493bb26197e4e33f72d16f33158d450e167/src/renderer.ts#L20C1-L21C1 https://github.com/kciter/ascii-3d-renderer.js/blob/1f1a8493... [1] Shades and Box art chars where never part of any ASCII standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 Technically no ASCII but that's just for purists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art#%22Block_ASCII%22_/_%22High_ASCII%22_style_ASCII_art_on_the_IBM_PC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art#%22Block_ASCII%22_/_...
- Retr0id 2y agoYes, sadly this semantic battle has already been lost.