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 )||( | | | C U

A I )||( +--|-+ | +-//-+--o - T

C N )||( | | | | P

E )||( +--@#|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U

)||( | | | 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:

(__) (__) (__)

(/) ($$) (**)

/-------/ /-------/ /-------/

/ | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||

* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||

~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~

Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love

Figure 4.

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(1996-02-06)