ASCII Adventures

This course is about the aesthetic potential of ASCII typography. Specifically, in this course you’ll learn how to develop your own ASCII renderer that breathes expressive low-tech aesthetics into any kind of input. Playing creatively with the inner workings of ASCII renderers is highly exciting, offering many variables for experimentation and producing visually fresh and often surprising results.

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  1. Intro
  2. Prerequisites
  3. Pixelation Recap
  4. Image Rasterization
  5. Fonts and Charsets
  6. Image Rasterization with Block Characters
  7. PGraphics Rasterization 2D
  8. PGraphics Rasterization 3D
  9. Reusable renderer functions
  10. Wrapping Up