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ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art

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268 points zayat | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 10:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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. pimlottc ◴[03 Jul 25 01:49 UTC] No.44450844[source]▶
And it's within a circular mask. Half the challenge of ASCII art is creating the illusion of smooth curves and edges when you mostly just have blocky letters. There's barely any attempt at smoothing the edges at all.

https://www.roysac.com/tutorial/rowanasciiarttutorial.html