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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aylons 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	noduerme 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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pimlottc 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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Wowfunhappy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I actually feel like using color at all is cheating. I'm okay with a wider width than 132 px, but it needs to be sized such that you can clearly make out the letters, which I can't in the TFA.