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ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art

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268 points zayat | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 10:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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thot_experiment ◴[02 Jul 25 22:24 UTC] No.44449488[source]▶
I feel like ascii art loses something when it's not sized to a standard text mode (at least to width, like 132x132 is fine). At some point you're just using weird pixels and this is approaching that for me. Same goes for changing the color of the characters continuously; terminal colors are cool. I'm probably just a crazy purist
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1. aylons ◴[02 Jul 25 22:36 UTC] No.44449568[source]▶
It's not even just that: the shadows go mid-character, instead of using characters as pixels. It is just not ASCII ART at all, just some ASCII characters used as a filler.
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2. noduerme ◴[03 Jul 25 06:07 UTC] No.44452108[source]▶
oooh. Good point. I didn't even noticd that at first glance as I was floored that anyone would show off something so totally wrong. But yes, not responsive ascii art if you're just throwing a transparent circle over the same bunch of characters.