• hexabs@lemmy.world
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    24 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

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      24 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.