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ASCII art

(Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly "|-/\+"). See also boxology. Here is a serious example:

 o----)||(--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O
 L )||( | | | C U
 A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T
 C N )||( | | | | P
 E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U
 )||( | | | GND T
 o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+
 A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier
 circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit
 Figure 1.

And here are some very silly examples:

 |\/\/\/| __/| _ |\_/| ___
 | | \ o.O| ACK! / \_ |` '| _/ \
 | | =(_)= THPHTH! / \/ \/ \
 | (o)(o) U / \
 C _) () \/\/\/\ ___ /\/\/\/
 | ,___| (oo) \/ \/
 | / \/-------\ U (__)
 /____\ || | \ /---V `v'- oo )
 / \ ||---W|| * * |--| || |`. |_/\
 	//-o-\\
 __---=======---__
 ====_\ /.. ..\ /_==== Klingons rule OK!
 // ---\O/--- \\
 \_\ /_/
 	 	 _
 	 ...---'-----`---...
 	 _===============================
 ,----------------._/' `---...___...---'
 (___||_) . . ,--'
 / /.---' `/
 '--------_- - - - - _/
 `--------'
 	 Figure 2.

There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the standard character names in the fashion of a rebus.

 +--------------------------------------------------------+
 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
 | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ |
 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
 | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ |
 | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
 +--------------------------------------------------------+
 "A Bee in the Carrot Patch"
 Figure 3.

Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is shown in Figure 2; here are three more:

 () () (__)
 (\/) ($$) (**)
 /-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/
 / | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||
 * ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||
 ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
 Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love
 	 Figure 4.

http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html .

Last updated: 1996年02月06日

Nearby terms:

ASCI ♦ ASCII ♦ ASCII art ♦ ASCIIbetical order ♦ ASCIIbonics ♦ ASCII character table

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