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Working on the ASCII art about page.


Island Logic's Music System for the BBC Micro from 1986.

From: https://mobile.twitter.com/KevEdwardsRetro/status/1155477709100859392


Grids.


Understanding repng.

From: https://github.com/jxnblk/repng

Inspiration

2D wave equation explorer by Tim Yates.

From: https://observablehq.com/@cimbul/2d-wave-equation

Inspiration

Starting the day with an interest in edge detection.

From: https://docs.opencv.org/master/d7/de1/tutorial_js_canny.html


Back to the ASCII experiments.


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Workspace.


Textflix uses movie reviews to show how machine learning can unlock the data embedded in large amounts of unstructured text.

From: https://textflix.fastforwardlabs.com

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Why binary explained with a pizza metaphor by @sailorhg in how do calculators even.

Inspiration

Matthew Rayfield World

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

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

From: http://www.joelsimon.net/dimensions-of-dialogue.html


"Granny", a collaboration with A until she lost interest.


More ASCII art pixel-to-letter matching experiments.


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.

Inspiration

Open syllabus galaxy: most assigned texts embedded with UMAP.

From: https://galaxy.opensyllabus.org/ via https://twitter.com/clured/status/1151170745567010816


Doing responsive clean-up on Textflix.

Inspiration

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.

From: https://observablehq.com/@grantcuster/text-portraits


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