• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    22 days ago

    Akchually 🤓 this style is called “kaomoji” and uses any Unicode characters, not just ASCII. Usually Japanese ones because it came from bulletin boards there and the computers could only be trusted to support the first few Unicode blocks (ASCII, Greek, math) and the Japanese scripts including halfwidth kana and fullwidth Latin. It uses specific fonts but not monospace ones, unlike ASCII art.

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    22 days ago

    Not to be that guy, but couldn’t this have been generated? I’m guessing

    drawing/painting - > edge detection - > line scanning - > ASCII substitution

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      22 days ago

      There were / are a myriad of tools to draw and convert to ascii art that were popularized on the Japanese internet.

      I’d imagine this was done in a tool like that.