Structure-based ASCII Art (2010)

The Chinese seem to be doing this a lot still. It is hard to find a lot of examples, but they are out there (http://ansi.loli.tw/).

Of course, we used to do this all the time in western countries and a whole underground scene formed out of it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art_scene). You can see most of the old artwork on Sixteen Colors (http://sixteencolors.net)

This is utterly amazing. I recommend downloading the presentation slides that explain the algorithm in more details. There are some very interesting ideas that can be reused.

"Some browsers may not support the required fonts, click here if the above ASCII art is corrupted."

And apparently mine doesn't. Why not? What went wrong? All browsers should support fixed-width fonts. Just use a more standard fixed width font please?

Other than that, it's beautiful! But please don't depend on brittle technologies for displaying one of the oldest computing art forms :)

This is really awesome. I usually have to clean up ascii art from generators by hand quite a bit, but the output of this appears much much cleaner!

Is there source for this somewhere? I'd like to play with it but I can't find anything without having to write something myself.