Use the <pre> tag! Put it before and after your EXAMPLE. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> <head> <title>Example</title> </head> <body> <pre> ###### # # ## # # ##### # ###### # # # # # ## ## # # # # ##### ## # # # ## # # # … Read more
The big-picture-level concept is simple: Each printable character can be assigned an approximate gray-scale value; the “at” sign @ obviously is visually darker than the “plus” sign +, for example. The effect will vary, depending on the font and spacing actually used. Based on the proportions of the chosen font, group the input image into … Read more
There are more approaches for image to ASCII art conversion which are mostly based on using mono-spaced fonts. For simplicity, I stick only to basics: Pixel/area intensity based (shading) This approach handles each pixel of an area of pixels as a single dot. The idea is to compute the average gray scale intensity of this … Read more
Lots of choices with Unicode, including ⌚ and ⌛! ← ↖ ↑ ↗ → ↘ ↓ ↙ ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▁ ▉▊▋▌▍▎▏▎▍▌▋▊▉ ▖ ▘ ▝ ▗ ┤ ┘ ┴ └ ├ ┌ ┬ ┐ ◢ ◣ ◤ ◥ ◰ ◳ ◲ ◱ ◴ ◷ ◶ … Read more