with their rhythms and suspense and ASCII art, were a visual medium the whole time. Animated GIFs add picture to a field of already-dancing text.

Fun little Flash app ASCII-O-Matic turns any small JPG image into plain text. Upload your 60 by 50 pixel portrait ("Face photos work best") and the ASCII-O-Matic turns it into a text. ASCII-O ...

Here's how it works in practice, GIF'd: But this is the kid stuff ... that can take any JPG and make it into ASCII art. Any image can become text with a few clicks of a button.

We’re not exactly sure why they’re doing it yet, but a self-described ‘Web standards fanatic’ named Mathias Bynens has discovered that Facebook and Instagram are automatically making ASCII ...

You can also swap to a black-on-white theme if you like, navigate around the model with the mouse, and even export the ASCII art as either a PNG or as a raw text file, no doubt suitable to send to ...

If you're not familiar with ASCII art, it's a way of displaying images using text in something like a terminal. The characters comprise the image in either a simple but crude fashion or with great ...

Select ASCII file or Text File. After creating an ASCII file ... such as PCX, BMP, TIFF, GIF, etc. cannot be converted into drawing formats, or vector graphics formats, such as WMF, DXF, DRW ...