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#ansiart

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The Green Herring

Here's an experiment done in response to recent news in the art world. Image 1 is what I scribbled right before work yesterday morning. Image 2 is what those simple shapes turned into after I came home and reopened my art app. This is proof that all you need to create strange worlds is your imagination, something genAI and its proponents can never possess or understand.

A bunch of crude, white, blocky shapes on a black background. There are two vaguely triangular shapes, a curved noodle, and an oval in the background; and in the foreground, there is a long, curving strip.
The previous image's crude shapes transformed into science fiction textmode artwork by living hands. On an alien world, in a patch of blue ground surrounded by tall blades of blue grass, two magenta prism-shaped creatures with one eye each amble toward a white serpentine creature with a cyan underbelly and pointed ears folded against its head. Behind the snake is a giant, golden egg surrounded by shorter blades of grass. Beside the creatures, a line of red soil borders a natural, bubbling acid bath.
#ANSIArt#SciFiArt#NoGenAI
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Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:

You might think rendering #MSDOS #ANSIart on a modern #Windows is just fine because it still supports the old codepages, including #cp437. Well, sort of.

Some escape sequences are interpreted differently than ANSI.SYS did. In the worst case, you'll just see garbage. Most files are "sane" enough though, but even then, the default colors are "just wrong"...

#dos2ansi takes advantage of the 256color support available since Windows 10 to mimic the original #VGA palette. It also renders to a virtual canvas first, exactly emulating ANSI.SYS, and then uses a safe subset of ANSI for actual output. And it can read and display #SAUCE metadata. 😎

Of course it also works on #Linux, #FreeBSD, etc.

zirias.github.io/dos2ansi/

Rendering comparison of some ANSI art file on Windows 10, using simply type after setting codepage 437 vs using dos2ansi.
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