Fun on Friday #19: ASCII Art

When I first started learning about computers, ASCII Art (i.e. pictures made up of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc.) was the type of computer art you saw in every school computer lab. The technology may have moved on with lifelike CGI appearing everywhere... but I think there is still a certain something about this kind of picture.

323/365: ASCII Colin
Originally uploaded by DavidDMuir

The illustration here was produced at the Online Poster Maker site which makes it easy to produce giant posters from photographs. All sort of possibilities for schools I would think from wall displays to fund raising. ...Or you could do it just for fun. :-)

A similar site is The Rasterbator which does the same kind of thing but with different sized dots (and different coloured dots too if you want) instead of ASCII charactes.

I hope you have fun playing. If you use either of these sites, post a link to a picture of your creation.

And while we are on ASCII art, what about the world's first music video in a spreadsheet! Yes... a spreadsheet. For reasons best known to themselves, AC/DC's record company have created an ASCII version of their Rock N Roll Train video and released it as a spreadsheet! Let me know what you think.

I knew it was a good idea...

I made a proposal that as part of the Scottish Government's Homecoming Scotland 2009 campaign someone should fund me while I investigate the effect of hearing the Glasgow born, and now internationally successful, Angus and Malcolm Young playing live with AC/DC at Hampden. For example, does it change the fans attitudes to the four capacities?

It seems like it wasn't such a daft idea after all since the day after I made my post, Christine Graham lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament: AC/DC - We Salute You

So now that MSPs are set to salute AC/DC, surely someone can find me some money to do important educational research at their Hampden gig!