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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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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It's a dog! (Or is it?)
The city defines a dog as any living entity with four legs and a tail. So raccoons, bears, mountain lions, mice, these are all just different sizes of dog.
Given an ASCII-art image of an animal, ...
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s-n-a-k-e-a-r-o-u-n-d--->
This ascii-art challenge is about walking around a string like a snake.
s-n-a-k
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d <-' a
n-u-o-r
You will be given a string \$ S \$ of length \$ l \$ and ...
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Greeting The User
Create a program which when run displays the text below:
)-*-*-*^_^*-*-*-(
| Welcome User! |
)-*-*-*^_^*-*-*-(
Use any functions or language to answer this, have ...
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Make me an Easter egg!
No, not the ^^vv<><>BA kind of Easter eggs, real Easter eggs that we paint.
Here is an (awfully drawn) egg.
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A keyboard so real you can almost TASTE it
... Not that you would, would you? The task is simple, output the following text:
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Directional Run Length Decoding
We all know run-length decoding: A list of character-length pairs expands to a string of that many characters, so A1B4C2 expands to ...
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Frame this nice ASCII-Art
Introduction
I think everyone agrees that nice pictures have to have a nice frame. But most challenges on this site about ASCII-Art just want the raw picture and don't care about it's preservation.
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Befunge Comment Outline Creator
Befunge is a 2-dimensional programming language, with an instruction pointer (IP).
In Befunge-98, the ; character tells the IP to skip characters up until the next <...
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Visualize the Euclidean algorithm again
Task
Given two positive integers:
Draw the rectangle with dimensions specified by the two integers.
Repeat Step 3 until there is no more space.
Draw and fill the largest square touching three sides ...
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Stack the rocks
This is a rock:
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Rocks can be stacked. Apart from the bottom-most layer, each rock must rest on two other rocks, like this:
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Compare Two Fractions With ASCII Art
Challenge
Write a program or function that takes in 4 non-negative integers, A, B, C, and D, that represent two fractions, A/B and C/D, where B and D are non-zero and A <= B and C <= D.
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Make an alphabet searchlight!
Inspired by a bug in a solution to this challenge, your challenge is to produce this exact text:
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Draw a BCD Binary clock
Create a BCD binary clock
in ASCII. As implied, it shall display time in six columns of dots:
(source: Wikimedia Commons)
Each column is a binary-coded digit, reading hours, minutes and seconds
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Visualise the Euclidean GCD [duplicate]
The Euclidean GCD Algorithm is an algorithm that efficiently computes the GCD of two positive integers, by repeatedly subtracting the smaller number from the larger number until they become equal. It ...
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Programming Languages Through The Years
In this challenge, users will take turns completeing three fairly simple coding tasks in programming languages that are allowed to be progressively older.
The first answer must use a programming ...
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Make me a s'more!
Make me a s'more! I tell you the width, the amount of graham cracker, the amount of chocolate, and the amount of marshmallow. An example:
Input:
Width: 10
Graham: ...
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Convert Chevrons to Soliduses
Write a program that takes in a string containing only spaces, newlines, and angle brackets: <, > (chevrons). Output a ...
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Convert numbers to dice patterns
The way points are assigned on a dice follows a regular pattern, the center dot is present if and only if the number is odd. To represent the even numbers, pairs of dots on opposite sides of the ...
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Jolly gerrymandering
Background
The United States has a unique love of gerrymandering––the deliberate manipulation of an electoral district to predict certain voting results. Just recently there was a gerrymandering case ...
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Sokobunny I (Sokoban, but the boxes are sentient)
Sokobunny 1
You love buns!
You love them so much, that you chased one down a bunburrow. The burrows are like mazes, and YOU WANT TO CATCH THE FLUFFBALLS!!!! However, the buns are smart! You can't ...
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Walk by walls in a room
Challenge
You just entered a room. Here's how it looks (you are the X):
|\ /|
| \/ |
| X |
| |
|----|
You challenge yourself to see if you can reach where you ...
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Displaying n with n
What I want:
Quite simply, I want a text based display, that asks for an input, n, then shows that value on the display! But there's a catch. Each of the 'true' '...
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Spiralize a Word, Triangularly!
Challenge
Given a string of any length, write it as a triangle, spiraling out from the center. For example, abcdefghijklmnop becomes:
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Basic ASCII Tallies
Alternate Title: Tally Your Prison Sentence on the Wall
Given a number n, output tallies grouped into the traditional 5-per-group and 50 per row.
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My Squiggly Lamp
While moving, I broke my lamp. Now, I need a new one. It's your job to make me a lamp! I'm not sure what size I want, though I know I want a squiggly one.
Your program/function must take in a number ...
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One Line Aquarium
My parents-in-law have a fishpond in their yard, filled with koi. It didn't really cross my mind until I noticed the following extract from my code.
',') & '_'
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Custom Rows of Smileys Triangle
This problem is inspired from shinh's problem.
Given an input of positive integer \$n\$, output a smiley triangle (see below) with \$n\$ rows.
Detailed rules
Can be either a function or a full ...
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Print this diamond
This question has been spreading like a virus in my office. There are quite a variety of approaches:
Print the following:
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Print a meter of numbers to a specified limit
Given a positive integer n, output a number meter formatted like this:
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Turn strings into hexagonal spirals!
Goal
Write a function or a program that when given a string, for example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", outputs:
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"Print this diamond" gone beautifully wrong
Write a function (or a whole program) that outputs (or prints) the following ASCII art:
Output:
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Loading... Forever
Your challenge is to make an infinite loading screen, that looks like this:
Or, to be more specific:
Take no input.
Output Loading..., with a trailing space, but ...
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It was just a bug
Inspired by the bugged output in @Carcigenicate's Clojure answer for the Print this diamond challenge.
Print this exact text:
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It was just an input-bug
Continuing my It was just a bug challenge:
Input:
A string consisting of printable ASCII characters without white-spaces nor new-lines.
Output:
First turn the input into a palindrome by reverting the ...
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I done did made a spaceship maw!
Introduction:
Inspired by this comment of @MagicOctopusUrn on @Emigna's 05AB1E answer for my "It was just a bug" challenge:
8F9ÝÀNð×ý}».∊ I done did made ...
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The Drunken Bishop
In public-key cryptography, a public key fingerprint is a short sequence of bytes used to identify a longer public key.
In SSH in particular they can be used to verify that a server is in fact the ...
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Draw the initial positions of Mölkky pins in ASCII art
Write a function (or a whole program) that outputs (or prints) an ASCII art of the initial position of Mölkky pins.
Output :
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Fibonacci triangle
Given an integer n, output the following ASCII art to n rows:
1+1=2
1+2=3
2+3=5
3+5=8
5+8=13
Essentially, the first row is ...
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Diagonal Alphabet To the Input
Inspired by this post. For those marking this question as a duplicate I urge you to actually read the question to see that mine is a modification of the one linked. The one linked does not ask for an ...
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Draw a bowling formation
Your goal is to display ASCII art of a formation in ten-pin bowling where only some of the pins remain. Fewest bytes wins.
The tens pins are in a triangular formation:
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My eight braille pattern progressive snake spinner
Introduction
I would like to drawn a nice spinner by using eight braille patterns on two lines, drawing a square of 8x8 pixel, for showing a kind of snake growing and reducing:
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Surround a string with "friendliness pellets"
Input a String and surround it with a rounded rectangle of alternating "friendliness pellets".(0)
Sandbox
Idea originally from Lyxal.
Challenge
Given a ...
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Render text in a slanted ASCII-art font
Given a text input such as:
THE QUICK
BROWN FOX
JUMPS OVER
THE LAZY
DOG
render the following output:
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Draw my downslashes
As a programmer, you've probably heard of forward slashes and backward slashes. But have you heard of downslashes? That's when you take a bunch of slashes, connect their ends and draw them going down.
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Visualizing Words
Given a word consisting of lowercase letters only, do the following:
For each letter, get the prime factorization of its position in the alphabet.
For each prime factor, p, draw a diamond of side ...
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Embiggen your input
This is a bit similar to this dust covered entry but I'm hoping my spin on it makes it unique enough. Not been able to find anything dissuading me from posting this but there is quite the sea out ...
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Print a sinusoidal wave (vertically)
Print a continuous sinusoidal wave scrolling vertically on a terminal. The program should not terminate and should continuously scroll down the wave (except until it is somehow interrupted). You may ...
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