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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always thought that it's Erotic Literature and not Text Pornographic... Since text isn't graphic.

[–] AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since text isn’t graphic.

Sounds like someone’s never seen ASCII porn before.

[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder if one could make a renderer that translates ascii characters into squares of solid colours. Colour depends on the character.

Zoom out far enough and you have a bitmap.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Your text renderer already does that. It's why ascii art works in the first place. The blocks are just smaller than the characters.

There are tools that faithfully convert images into ascii art to the point where they just look like the images with zoomed out enough.

[–] scinde@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Congratulations, you've just invented digital images.

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, you could make a ~~religion~~ encoding out of this