Hybrid ASCII Art

Enigmatriz uses ASCII art to punch up and blow out public domain photos and illustrations — I love their style. From It’s Nice That:

Using the Image to ASCII tool available online, Enigmatriz found a new way to play with digital assets. “Everyday, I sit on my computer and browse through hundreds of images in the public domain to find things that catch my attention and feel are worth shining a new light on them,” says Enigmatriz. “When working with ASCII, what I like and find particularly interesting is the blend between hundred old paintings, photographs etc. and modern technologies.” Enigmatriz creates unique contrasts between images — historical paintings are overlaid with spatterings of text, ASCII renders are layered on top of playing cards or archival imagery.

You can find more of their work on Instagram.

• art
• ASCII
• design
• Enigmatriz
• remix

ASCII fluid dynamics

A video of the output of an ASCII fluid dynamics simulator.

Watch video on YouTube.

Sloshy! (via waxy)

• ASCII
• video

Liquid ASCII

It’s difficult to describe nkwiatek.com, but I will try to use my words. When you mouse over Nick Kwiatek’s site, red ASCII characters explode across your screen like those cheesy Javascript mouse followers with an effect that is as far away from those cheesy Javascript mouse followers as can be. It’s really pretty, and it makes me think of a murmuration of starlings.

(via @mattonlymoore)

• ASCII
• Nick Kwiatek

ASCII videos

ASCIImeo takes Vimeo video and plays them as ASCII art. Here’s an example video: Dogboarding. I love that the player controls are all text as well…here’s a screenshot:

• ASCII
• ASCIImeo
• remix
• video
• Vimeo