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Wouldn't it be better to use blocks (219 in ASCII) as the main paint unit and use some other half-block and "hashed" characters (ASCII 220, 223, 176-178) to im
by felineflock 1mo ago
Wouldn't it be better to use blocks (219 in ASCII) as the main paint unit and use some other half-block and "hashed" characters (ASCII 220, 223, 176-178) to implement dithering?
- wewtyflakes 1mo agoEverything above 127 would be extended ASCII instead of strict ASCII, if that matters.
- recursive 1mo agoThere are multiple extensions to ASCII. "Extended ASCII" isn't a single thing, but a category of single-byte character encodings which are supersets of ASCII.
- Darkphibre 1mo agoBy leveraging characters, you can actually do a form of dithring! See this great interactive blog post: https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
- paavope 1mo agoThat was a really, really cool read!