character graphics ⇝
ASCII art
<graphics>
(Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly "|-/\+").
See also boxology. Here is a serious example: o----)||(--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O
L )||( | | | C U
A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T
C N )||( | | | | P
E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U
)||( | | | GND T
o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+
A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier
circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit
Figure 1.
And here are some very silly examples:
|\/\/\/| __/| _ |\_/| ___
| | \ o.O| ACK! / \_ |` '| _/ \
| | =(_)= THPHTH! / \/ \/ \
| (o)(o) U / \
C _) () \/\/\/\ ___ /\/\/\/
| ,___| (oo) \/ \/
| / \/-------\ U (__)
/____\ || | \ /---V `v'- oo )
/ \ ||---W|| * * |--| || |`. |_/\
//-o-\\
__---=======---__
====_\ /.. ..\ /_==== Klingons rule OK!
// ---\O/--- \\
\_\ /_/
_
...---'-----`---...
_===============================
,----------------._/' `---...___...---'
(___||_) . . ,--'
/ /.---' `/
'--------_- - - - - _/
`--------'
Figure 2.
There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the
standard character names in the fashion of a rebus.
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
"A Bee in the Carrot Patch"
Figure 3.
Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an
entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is
shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
() () (__)
(\/) ($$) (**)
/-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/
/ | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||
* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love
Figure 4.
http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html.
Last updated: 1996-02-06
Nearby terms:
ASCI ♦ ASCII ♦ ASCII art ♦ ASCIIbetical order ♦ ASCIIbonics ♦ ASCII character table
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