
Grids.

Starting the day with an interest in edge detection.
From: https://docs.opencv.org/master/d7/de1/tutorial_js_canny.html

Textflix uses movie reviews to show how machine learning can unlock the data embedded in large amounts of unstructured text.
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Why binary explained with a pizza metaphor by @sailorhg in how do calculators even.

Matthew Rayfield World
From: http://matthewrayfield.com/ via https://twitter.com/hoverstates/status/1152228672251879424

"Here, new writing systems are created by challenging two neural networks to communicate information via images." By Joel Simon.

Font character density broken up into four regions (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right). Going to see if this gets me better ASCII art results.

Open syllabus galaxy: most assigned texts embedded with UMAP.
From: https://galaxy.opensyllabus.org/ via https://twitter.com/clured/status/1151170745567010816

Peter Dreher has "painted the same glass more than 2,500 times at night and more than 2,500 times during the daytime" since 1974.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dreher#Tag_um_Tag_guter_Tag_/_Day_by_Day_good_Day via https://mobile.twitter.com/tophtucker/status/1150517103298011139

Text portraits: ASCII art generated from an image using only the characters from the text box.

Experiments in using description text as source characters for ASCII art.