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Sure, it's from 1999 (and earlier) but this immediately reminded me of ACiD Draw.

http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html

ACiD Productions is a digital art group founded in 1990. If you're into ascii art you might dig their work.

http://www.acid.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions

ANSI/ASCII art was the aesthetic of the pre-internet BBS era. Text graphics was the best you could do over a slow modem link at the time.

Later on we even had vector graphics (anyone remember RipTerm?) which were pretty cool (despite the slow transfer speed) because the limited speed meant you got to watch it progressively draw.

https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip

That in turn reminds me of TheDraw, which I remember in lieu of Acid Draw. Maybe a regional thing?

https://www.syaross.org/thedraw/

How. It's truly amazing and wonderful how unchanged and frozen in time this website is.

Sourcecode copyright says 2012.

Static websites can survive decades unharmed. Make more of them.

Some of the most creative artwork you'll ever see exists in warez groups' nfo files.

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/the-art-of-warez-document...

Great modern ASCII paint software (mac only): http://monodraw.helftone.com

Awesome website! I once knew a guy who was part of the Blocktronics crew who drew ANSI art painstakingly by hand cell by cell. The amount of effort that goes into these things is something else. There's obviously no algorithm that can produce a finished artwork as beautiful as a human can who sits down and uses a paint prog like this. But... If you want a scriptable tool for the command line that turns the image files you made with photoshop into something that's copy/pastable with UNICODE block characters, then here's an Actually Portable Executable that'll let you do just that.

Screenshot: https://justine.lol/printansi.png

Program: https://justine.lol/printansi.com

Source code: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/viz/pr...

    M-x artist-mode

Yep, emacs has it all :)

If you're curious about ANSI/ASCII art, try these editors: PabloDraw (http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/) or Moebius (https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/). ACiDDraw, TheDraw or whatever odd editor people are recommending here, are either not supported any longer or do not serve the same purpose.

This is really cool! Seems like a good start. If you're looking for suggestions, I'd like to be able to choose background and foreground colors as well as use a larger paintbrush. Maybe the tool could use different ascii characters for blending and dithering?

Not the creator. Checkout other things made by the same person at http://generators.alienmelon.com/ They all have 90s vibes. Even in this ASCII paint too, apart from the blue gradient and dos like font, there is something else too with the text style or may be surprise element when drawing that gives old vibes.

some previous discussions of Nathalie Lawhead's work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26358259

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504983

now i can finally make some quality NFTs

(2020)

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