Select the image fle you wish to render as ASCII art, then click "Upload".
You can then change some of the rendering options before generating your image, have fun !
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation
and consists of pictures created from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the
ASCII Standard from 1963. The term is also loosely used to refer to text based visual
art in general. ASCII art can be created with any text editor. Most examples of ASCII art require a fixed-width font such as Courier.
Among the oldest known examples of ASCII art are the creations by computer-art pioneer
Ken Knowlton from around 1966.
ASCII art was probably invented as early printers lacked graphics ability and so ASCII art was used in place of images.
ASCII art was used to mark divisions between different print jobs on
line printers printing large banner pages,
between jobs so they could be easily separated by the computer operator e.g.
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Y88b d88P d88P Y88b 888 Y88b d88888 888 "Y88b d88888 d88P Y88b 8888b d8888
Y88o88P .d88P 888 888 d88P888 888 888 d88P888 Y88b. 88888b.d88888
Y888P 8888" 888 d88P d88P 888 888 888 d88P 888 "Y888b. 888Y88888P888
d888b "Y8b. 8888888P" d88P 888 888 888 d88P 888 "Y88b. 888 Y888P 888
d88888b 888 888 888 d88P 888 888 888 d88P 888 "888 888 Y8P 888
d88P Y88b Y88b d88P 888 d8888888888 888 .d88P d8b d8888888888 Y88b d88P 888 " 888
d88P Y88b "Y8888P" 88888888 888 d88P 888 8888888P" Y8P d88P 888 "Y8888P" 888 888
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Jennifer Aniston rendered in ASCII Art