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Your photos, maps of anywhere and fractals, drawn with characters from UNSCII, an 8×8 bitmap font. Made in your browser.

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave off Kanagawa Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831 typographic · 232 colours

Mandelbulb

A 3D fractal, drawn in characters.

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The planets

Eight worlds lit by the Sun, each turning at its own pace. Sizes are not to scale.

  1. Mercury
  2. Venus
  3. Earth
  4. Mars
  5. Jupiter
  6. Saturn
  7. Uranus
  8. Neptune

ASCII and UNSCII

ASCII has 95 printable characters. UNSCII, Viznut's 8×8 bitmap font, adds block elements, shades, box drawing, braille and the graphics characters of 1980s home computers. Printscii uses 1,055 of them.

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
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The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, c. 1484–86

Pictures

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North Shore, Lake Superior by Lawren Harris
North Shore, Lake Superior Lawren Harris, 1926 all · 256 colours · 96 columns Edit
Blue-eyed cat, photographed by Mikhail Vasilyev
Blue-eyed cat Mikhail Vasilyev braille on black · 256 colours · 110 columns Edit
Digital Orca by Douglas Coupland, photographed by Philip Jama
Digital Orca Douglas Coupland, photographed by Philip Jama, 2009 all · 256 colours · 110 columns Edit

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