Questions tagged [ascii-art]
This challenge involves creating or parsing pictures using text characters as the paint. Typically this uses only 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963.
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A Ring of Cubes
Given an integer greater than or equal to 2, output ASCII-art resembling an isometric-perspective cube ring with that side length.
Expected outputs given below for 2, 3. You can imagine the rest. You ...
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Binary Slashes Display
(easy mode of Seven Slash Display)
Given a positive integer (or alternatively, a string/list of bits of its binary representation) output it with this diagonal ASCII-art formation:
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Cellular Automata Rule 30
What are cellular automata?
Cellular automata describes a broad category of computational models that covers various cellular automations, some of the most intriguing of which involve 'simple' rules ...
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Sith TIE-Fighter
Today is May 5th which means it's Star-Wars Day episode II: Revenge of the 5th.
For this task, you will output the following image of a Sith TIE-fighter:
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X-Wing Starfighter
Today is May 4th, Star Wars day, so here's a Star Wars ASCII-art task. Output this image of an X-Wing starfighter:
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Visually arrange multi-day events on a calendar
The arrangement algorithm
I think I've determined the algorithm that Google Calendar uses to visually arrange day-long and longer events at the top of the "Week" view (you may have an ...
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Create a cactus from words
Introduction:
A typical cartoonish cactus usually looks like this:
One big stem in the middle, with some L-shaped branches sticking out.
We'll use this general shape for this challenge.
Challenge:
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Lattice points visible from the origin
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Create a program that outputs a square grid showing visible and non-visible points \$(x, y)\$ from the origin based on their greatest common divisor (GCD).
A point \$(x, y)\$ is considered ...
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Find the odd one out
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The goal of this challenge is to generate and output a \$16 \times 32\$ (height \$\times\$ width) grid where all cells contain a decoy
character, except for a random single cell that ...
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Spot The Difference
Challenge
Generate two \$16 \times 16\$ grids, each initially filled with "@" symbols and spaces. Each cell in the grids should be independently filled with an "@" or a space, with ...
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First person to ever beat Classic Tetris
Historic Tetris Achievement
Blue Scuti became the first ever human to beat the classic game of Tetris on NES.
Here's the Tetris Kill Screen
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Output the following Tetris ...
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I baked you a pie!
There is an asdfmovie video about a pie flavoured pie. Someone also made an edited version with more pies, so I created this challenge.
The input is a positive integer.
The code should first output ...
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ASCII-art milk carton
The following is an unfolded milk carton:
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Limited letter renderer: BIOPD
There have of course been challenges to render ASCII art fonts here and there. This challenge doesn't add anything to those. In contrary, it subtracts from them for a good reason. If you allow all ...
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Print ASCII building
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Display to the screen or write to stdout this exactly:
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