ANSI Art
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'''ANSI Art''' is a variant on [[ASCII Art]] which uses ANSI escape sequences in addition to ASCII characters in order to do things like changing colors. It also uses characters from the [[MS-DOS encodings|IBM PC code page]] which aren't part of ASCII, allowing a wider range of characters including various graphical symbols and box-drawing characters. This sort of art was popular on bulletin board systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and in other communities through the early 2000s. It is still being made in small quantities today. | '''ANSI Art''' is a variant on [[ASCII Art]] which uses ANSI escape sequences in addition to ASCII characters in order to do things like changing colors. It also uses characters from the [[MS-DOS encodings|IBM PC code page]] which aren't part of ASCII, allowing a wider range of characters including various graphical symbols and box-drawing characters. This sort of art was popular on bulletin board systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and in other communities through the early 2000s. It is still being made in small quantities today. | ||
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| + | This article is mainly about the ANSI Art ''file format''. The term "ANSI Art" sometimes refers to the file format, and sometimes to the artwork itself. In the second sense, "ANSI Art" graphics might be stored in a file format other than ANSI Art format, such as [[BIN (Binary Text)|BIN]] or [[iCEDraw]]. | ||
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Revision as of 22:43, 5 February 2016
ANSI Art is a variant on ASCII Art which uses ANSI escape sequences in addition to ASCII characters in order to do things like changing colors. It also uses characters from the IBM PC code page which aren't part of ASCII, allowing a wider range of characters including various graphical symbols and box-drawing characters. This sort of art was popular on bulletin board systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and in other communities through the early 2000s. It is still being made in small quantities today.
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Disambiguation
This article is mainly about the ANSI Art file format. The term "ANSI Art" sometimes refers to the file format, and sometimes to the artwork itself. In the second sense, "ANSI Art" graphics might be stored in a file format other than ANSI Art format, such as BIN or iCEDraw.
Specifications and references
- ANSI control sequences
- ANSI code list
- ANSI escape code (Wikipedia)
- EMCA-48: Control Functions for Coded Character Sets
Software
- Ansilove: Open-source PHP-based tools to convert ANSI and similar formats to PNG images
- AnsiLove/C
- ACiD View: ANSI art (and other format) viewer for Windows
- FFmpeg
