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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: TheBassetHound on May 25, 2013, 10:36:13 pm

Title: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: TheBassetHound on May 25, 2013, 10:36:13 pm
So I was screwin' around on the computer yesterday and I saw ASCII. I don't know what it stands for, but it is awesome. If you look at my signature, the string of all that punctation down there is shaped to look like a portal gun from Portal. That's ASCII. There's lots of stuff you can do with it, and some people can make different shades and gigantic pictures with it. I even found a picture to ASCII converter (That thing is boss)!
     Anyway, I'd like to see what you guys can come up with.

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Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Link on May 25, 2013, 10:45:39 pm
Insert huge number of sigh's here......

ASCII stands for: The American Standard Code for Information Interchange; it's a character encoding scheme that is based off of the English alphabet.  ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters. Apart from ASCII, there are other encoding standards used such as UTF-8 and UTF-16. Essentially it is just a standard for displaying text.

What you are doing is called ASCII art (and only looks good in monospaced fonts; ie. that is fonts where characters are equidistant apart): there are many many more examples on the internet such as here: http://www.chris.com/ascii/

Note: Some info from wikipedia
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Juju on May 25, 2013, 10:48:51 pm
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Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 26, 2013, 12:08:32 am
So in short, yes. We have heard of ASCII. :) In fact many ti basic games utilize ASCII graphics because they are very fast to display.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Hayleia on May 26, 2013, 01:12:42 am
Insert huge number of sigh's here......
So in short, yes. We have heard of ASCII. :)
Haha ! Exactly my feeling XD
I was like "dafuq ? who is asking on a forum of coders if they heard about ASCII ?"

Also, this (http://www.asciimation.co.nz/) is awesome.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Juju on May 26, 2013, 01:36:00 am
Well yeah, most of the best calc games made here on Omni are made with ASCII graphics.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: XiiDraco on May 26, 2013, 02:21:14 am
Insert huge number of sigh's here......
So in short, yes. We have heard of ASCII. :)
Haha ! Exactly my feeling XD
I was like "dafuq ? who is asking on a forum of coders if they heard about ASCII ?"

Also, this (http://www.asciimation.co.nz/) is awesome.

My exact thoughts.
Also, the Star Wars ASCII is in computer craft in minecraft.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: aeTIos on May 26, 2013, 02:47:02 am
Sure I have heard of ASCII. Most of us have :) I
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: utz on May 26, 2013, 09:59:53 am
ASCII... pffft! ANSI (http://sixteencolors.net/pack/blocktronics_codename_chris_wirth/ret-revolt.ans) is da real sh*t  :P
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: TheBassetHound on May 26, 2013, 09:33:30 pm
So sorry Omni... I have failed you.


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Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 26, 2013, 10:53:31 pm
Considering the Omnimaga logo originated from ASCII (well, on-calc) and that I made Illusiat series, I think I know what are ASCII and ASCII art. :P
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: pimathbrainiac on May 26, 2013, 10:57:43 pm
What time is it?

ADVENTURE TIME!!!

|(• ◡•)|/ \(❍ᴥ❍ʋ)

I just... had too...

Also: BMO

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Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Juju on May 26, 2013, 11:41:30 pm
I dunno, I messed up with GIMP, set the font to a 8x8 one and cat the attachment in a Linux terminal (or anything that supports ANSI).

EDIT: This is what it looks like.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 27, 2013, 12:18:04 am
Should this be moved to humor/jokes and/or pixel art/drawing? :P

Also this is ASCII art:

(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/zeldaatarisword1.png)

(basically just spaces using white or medium gray backgrounds, along with yellow text on medium gray background, all of that on a red background screen.) :P
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Hooloovoo on May 27, 2013, 02:31:26 pm
ASCII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_(company)) is also a company in Japan.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 27, 2013, 03:23:08 pm
Yeah I think I know about that one. Unless there were two of them, the one I know made RPG Maker 2000. I think the other RM programs were made by Enterbrain, though.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Hooloovoo on May 27, 2013, 03:25:26 pm
Hm, I didn't know about that. I only know them for their Gamecube controller :P
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: TheBassetHound on May 27, 2013, 09:54:47 pm
Well, I screwed up. This really wasn't meant to be a question thread, just a thread for ASCII art. I'm a 6th grader, and I'll bet no one else at my school (except for maybe a few people) knows what ASCII is.

I'll make up for it with a Basset Hound head.
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Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 27, 2013, 11:49:12 pm
It's okay. Ascii art can actually be quite interesting. The great thing about it (in my opinion) is that both the simple and the more complex works can look very nice. :)
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: _Nicco_ on May 28, 2013, 02:02:44 am
When I first read the title I thought that it was going to be some sort of joke not a serious question.  Anyway yes I have heard of ASCII and ASCII art.

I'd have to congratulate you on finding out what it was in 6th grade though. In 6th grade I was just watching youtube videos like <a href="http://youtu.be/JdLCEwEFCMU">How To Be Ninja</a>.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: TheBassetHound on May 28, 2013, 08:57:34 pm
Dude- I'm not allowed to watch youtube at all. It's so frustrating because I can't watch the things that people want me to. Like Llamas in hats, for example. My name is the antagonist's name, so my friends are going around saying things like, "Carl, that kills people!" and I just try to play along...
Oh and btw has anyone seen asdf movie?
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: XiiDraco on May 28, 2013, 09:26:50 pm
Absolutely  ;D,  asdf movies are the best!
"Joey, did you eat my sandwich?"
"I AM your sandwich."
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: TheBassetHound on May 30, 2013, 09:27:50 pm
Hey man, check out my new dog.
Aww yea thats pretty coo- OHH THERE'S NO DOG THERE...
WOOOOAAAAA
BLOOOOOOOAAAAAAA

That's my favorite.

I wonder how many derps I've made on Omni... XD
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: aeTIos on May 31, 2013, 02:06:57 am
Die, potato!
Potato: I like trains.
NOOOOOOOOOOO
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: XiiDraco on May 31, 2013, 02:58:05 pm
Um, I pretty sure the potato isn't the one that likes trains... But hey! Whatever! :D
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: pimathbrainiac on May 31, 2013, 09:22:54 pm
EVERYBODY DO THE FLOP!!!
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Scipi on May 31, 2013, 09:38:22 pm
EVERYBODY DO THE FLOP!!!

There's even a song on that one :P



Also, I liek Trains.

Edit:

I also have this to contribute

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Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: pimathbrainiac on May 31, 2013, 10:08:45 pm
__________     ___    ___     __________          __________         ___         __  __  __     __________
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      |  |           |   ___   |     |  ______|          |  |    |__   |     /  ___  \     |  | | | |  |    |  _______|
      |  |           |  |    |  |     | |______           |  |_____|  |    /  /    \  \    |  | | | |  |    |  |______
      |_|           |__|   |_|      |_______|          |_________|   /_/       \_\   |_| |_| |_|    |________|

/me lost

/me runs
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: TheBassetHound on May 31, 2013, 10:25:33 pm
/me just figured out how to do this (and in the process killed a potato)

Lol

And the potato does not say i like trains, it's the I Like Trains Kid who does. So,

Person: Die, potato!
Potato: NEEEEEEWWWWWWW
I Like Trains Kid: I like trains.
Person: Ohnononowait...!
/me get run over by a train

Sry if I'm hurting your feelings by doing this, aeTIos, but I just see that- and correct it, it's one of the things I do best. ;)

But, off topic!

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The asdf movie posts probably sound wierd to people who haven't seen them...
Title: Re: Anyone heard of ASCII?
Post by: Hooloovoo on May 31, 2013, 10:27:12 pm
__________     ___    ___     __________          __________         ___         __  __  __     __________
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/me lost

/me runs
that works equally well as the ascii
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