ASCII art
<graphics> (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
)||(
|
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C U A I
)||(
+-->|-+
|
+-\/\/-+--o -
T C N
)||(
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P E
)||(
+-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o
U )||(
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| 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:
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(__) (\/)
($$)
(**) /-------\/
/-------\/
/-------\/ / | 666 ||
/ |=====||
/ |
|| *
||----||
*
||----||
*
||----|| ~~
~~
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~~ Satanic cow
This cow is a Yuppie
Cow in love
Figure 4.
(http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html).
