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-'''ASCII Art''' is art that is created entirely with text characters. In its purest form, it is created entirely with the printable characters of the [[ASCII]] character set, but the term has sometimes been used more loosely to refer to other character art which might make use of "extended" character sets or added control or escape codes. When [[ANSI escape code]]s are used, that is known as [[ANSI Art]].
+'''ASCII Art''' is art that is created entirely with text characters. In its purest form, it is created entirely with the printable characters of the [[ASCII]] character set (along with line breaks, which depending on the system may use carriage returns and/or linefeeds), but the term has sometimes been used more loosely to refer to other character art which might make use of "extended" character sets or added control or escape codes. When [[ANSI escape code]]s are used, that is known as [[ANSI Art]].
 Predecessors existed even before ASCII was first defined in 1963; people were using typewriters to create art as early as the 1800s, and teletypes in the 1920s were also used for artwork. When computers began to appear, it became a common recreation to come up with pictures or cartoons printed entirely in text characters (such as the Snoopy picture ubiquitously found on the walls of computer centers). The BBS world of the 1970s through 1990s also used a lot of text art, though it often used platform-specific character sets which included things like line-drawing characters, so it wasn't strictly ASCII art. The rise of fully-graphical computers has reduced the frequency of ASCII art use, but it still turns up from time to time.

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 '''ASCII Art''' is art that is created entirely with text characters. In its purest form, it is created entirely with the printable characters of the [[ASCII]] character set, but the term has sometimes been used more loosely to refer to other character art which might make use of "extended" character sets or added control or escape codes. When [[ANSI escape code]]s are used, that is known as [[ANSI Art]].
-Predecessors existed even before ASCII was first defined in 1963; people were using typewriters to create art as early as the 1800s, and teletypes in the 1920s were also used for artwork. When computers began to appear, it became a common recreation to come up with pictures or cartoons printed entirely in text characters. The BBS world of the 1970s and 1980s also used a lot of text art, though it often used platform-specific character sets which included things like line-drawing characters, so it wasn't strictly ASCII art. The rise of fully-graphical computers has reduced the frequency of ASCII art use, but it still turns up from time to time.
+Predecessors existed even before ASCII was first defined in 1963; people were using typewriters to create art as early as the 1800s, and teletypes in the 1920s were also used for artwork. When computers began to appear, it became a common recreation to come up with pictures or cartoons printed entirely in text characters (such as the Snoopy picture ubiquitously found on the walls of computer centers). The BBS world of the 1970s through 1990s also used a lot of text art, though it often used platform-specific character sets which included things like line-drawing characters, so it wasn't strictly ASCII art. The rise of fully-graphical computers has reduced the frequency of ASCII art use, but it still turns up from time to time.
 Pure ASCII art uses only printable characters, but there have also been instances of control characters being used to do special effects for artistic purposes on terminals (screen and printing) that supported particular functions such as overstrike and animation effects using backspaces or carriage returns without linefeeds. These don't work consistently on all systems, however.

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-|extensions={{ext|txt}}, {{ext|asc}}
+|extensions={{ext|txt}}, {{ext|asc}}, {{ext|ascii}}
-|mimetypes={{mimetype|text/plain}}
+|mimetypes={{mimetype|text/plain}}, {{mimetype|text/x-ascii-art}}, {{mimetype|image/ascii-art}}, {{mimetype|text/vnd.ascii-art}}
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 '''ASCII Art''' is art that is created entirely with text characters. In its purest form, it is created entirely with the printable characters of the [[ASCII]] character set, but the term has sometimes been used more loosely to refer to other character art which might make use of "extended" character sets or added control or escape codes. When [[ANSI escape code]]s are used, that is known as [[ANSI Art]].

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 * [http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/planes.txt The ORIGINAL Ascii Airplane Collection]
 * [http://boingboing.net/2014/01/30/ascii-art-and-its-precursors.html ASCII art and its precursors]
 * [http://betanews.com/2015/03/06/monodraw-is-the-visio-of-ascii-art/ Monodraw is the Visio of ASCII art]

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-'''ASCII Art''' is art that is created entirely with text characters. In its purest form, it is created entirely with the printable characters of the [[ASCII]] character set, but the term has sometimes been used more loosely to refer to other character art which might make use of "extended" character sets or added control or escape codes. When ANSI escape codes are used, that is known as [[ANSI Art]].
+'''ASCII Art''' is art that is created entirely with text characters. In its purest form, it is created entirely with the printable characters of the [[ASCII]] character set, but the term has sometimes been used more loosely to refer to other character art which might make use of "extended" character sets or added control or escape codes. When [[ANSI escape code]]s are used, that is known as [[ANSI Art]].
 Predecessors existed even before ASCII was first defined in 1963; people were using typewriters to create art as early as the 1800s, and teletypes in the 1920s were also used for artwork. When computers began to appear, it became a common recreation to come up with pictures or cartoons printed entirely in text characters. The BBS world of the 1970s and 1980s also used a lot of text art, though it often used platform-specific character sets which included things like line-drawing characters, so it wasn't strictly ASCII art. The rise of fully-graphical computers has reduced the frequency of ASCII art use, but it still turns up from time to time.

← Older revision		Revision as of 01:10, 11 March 2015
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	* [http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/planes.txt The ORIGINAL Ascii Airplane Collection]		* [http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/planes.txt The ORIGINAL Ascii Airplane Collection]
	* [http://boingboing.net/2014/01/30/ascii-art-and-its-precursors.html ASCII art and its precursors]		* [http://boingboing.net/2014/01/30/ascii-art-and-its-precursors.html ASCII art and its precursors]
		+	* [http://betanews.com/2015/03/06/monodraw-is-the-visio-of-ascii-art/ Monodraw is the Visio of ASCII art]

← Older revision		Revision as of 04:23, 31 January 2014
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	* [http://dehumanizer.theonion.com/ The Onion's Dehumanizer] (turns any image into text-based art)		* [http://dehumanizer.theonion.com/ The Onion's Dehumanizer] (turns any image into text-based art)
	* [http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/planes.txt The ORIGINAL Ascii Airplane Collection]		* [http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/planes.txt The ORIGINAL Ascii Airplane Collection]
		+	* [http://boingboing.net/2014/01/30/ascii-art-and-its-precursors.html ASCII art and its precursors]