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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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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Bake a slice of Pi
Write a program or function that prints or outputs this exact text (consisting of 142 characters):
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Do you want to code a snowman?
Here is a simple ASCII art snowman:
_===_
(.,.)
( : )
( : )
Let's make him some friends. This will be the general pattern for our ASCII art snowpeople:
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In Honor of Adam West
Adam West passed away, and I'd like to honor his memory here on PPCG, though I doubt he knew of our existence. While there are many, many different things that this man is known for, none are more ...
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Minecraft Mirrored
This is Calvin. Just trying to get 20 rep so this user can chat in the PPCG Minecraft Server chatroom.
Write a program or function that takes in a positive integer.
If the integer is even (2, 4, 6, ....
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Very Simple Triangles
Write a program or function that takes in a positive integer (via stdin, command line, or function arg) and prints or returns a string of that many of these small triangles tiled together, alternating ...
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Will Jimmy fall off his platform?
Backstory
Meet my friend Jimmy:
/o\
Jimmy is a little character who likes to stand on platforms. Here's Jimmy safely standing on a platform:
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Transform number into 7-segment display pattern [closed]
Given two arbitrary numbers A,B. Print number B as a Digital LED Pattern where A is the scale.
input:
1 2320451640799518
ouput:
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Render "Digital Clock Style" Numbers
Write the shortest program which will take a string of numbers (of up to at least 20 length) as input, and display the output using the standard digital clock style numbers. For instance for input 81,...
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Chain reaction of bombs
Introduction:
Before the task, here is what every element does on the map:
Plain land (X): This does nothing.
Destroyed land (...
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Golf me an ASCII Alphabet
Don't you find that reading simple text isn't appealing enough? Try our
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Find the shortest route on an ASCII road
You want to find the length shortest path between two points, on an 2d ASCII "map". The roads are made up of + characters, and the two endpoints are represented by <...
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Rotate simple ASCII art [closed]
This is similar to a previous question on this site, but with much simpler rules, so we should get much shorter results (in bytes):
Input: ASCII art with only two possible characters: space and '#'.
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5 Favorite Letters
The challenge is actually extremely simple. Pick 5 distinct letters (you can just pick the 5 that allow you the shortest code if you like) and output them to the console. However, the twist is that ...
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Create an "H" from smaller "H"s
Challenge
Create a function or program that, when given an integer size, does the following:
If size is equal to 1, output
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This is my pillow
...will you help me immortalize it?
I've had this pillow a few years now, and apparently it's time to get rid of it. Can you please write a function or program, that I can bring with me and use to ...
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Draw an asterisk triangle
Inspired by a task for Programming 101, here's a challenge that hopefully isn't too easy (or a duplicate).
Input:
A positive integer n >= 1.
Output:
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Print N Squared
Write a program or function that takes in a non-negative integer N from stdin or as a function argument. It must print or return a string of a hollow ASCII-art square whose sides are each made with N ...
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ASCII Art of the Day #1 - Double Knot
Write a full program or a function that takes a positive integer N as input via STDIN/command line/ARGV or function arguments and prints an ASCII double knot ...
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Golfing ASCII-art
Let's try to golf this piece of ascii-art representing a golfing man:
'\ . . |>18>>
\ . ' . |
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Print the American Flag!
Special Independence Day (USA) themed challenge for you today. You must write a program that prints this ascii-art representation of The American Flag.
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Let's draw the flag of Nepal
Nepal’s flag (Wikipedia, Numberphile) looks very different from any other. It also has specific drawing instructions (included in the Wikipedia article). I want you guys to make a program which will ...
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Sierpinski Carpets
Who doesn't love a good fractal? The Sierpinski Carpet is a classic example of a fractal.
To complete this task, you will be required to generate a carpet of type \$n\$ and print the resulting image ...
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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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It's my Birthday :D
Introduction
Last year was my birthday (really!) and sadly I had to organise my own party. Well, now you know, couldn't you at least make the cake?
Challenge
Given an integer ...
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Code Golf Christmas Edition: How to print out a Christmas tree of height N
Given a number N, how can I print out a Christmas tree of height N using the least number of code characters? ...
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Build me a brick wall!
Challenge
I need help building a brick wall! Throw together some code for me
using no input and produce the following output wall shown below:
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Help Trump build the wall!
Trump needs the wall constructed and you are going to do it! To most efficiently build his wall I have created a simple, repeatable pattern for you to use:
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Build a sandpile
An abelian sandpile, for our purposes, is an infinite grid with integer coordinates, initially empty of sand. After each second, a grain of sand is placed at (0,0). Whenever a grid cell has 4 or more ...
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Yarr! A map to the hidden treasure!
Introduction
"Yarr!! We had a laddie who called himself a "programmer" make a map t' our hidden treasure! But 'tis written wit' weird numbers 'n letters! "E5, N2, E3"... what does it even mean? ...
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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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Counting Goats to Sleep
Some people count sheep to get to sleep. Others count goats.
Write a program or function that takes in a positive integer N and outputs N-1 awake goats followed by one sleeping goat, as if someone was ...
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Read ASCII-Art Text
Inspired by Golf me an ASCII Alphabet, of which this challenge is (almost) a direct inverse.
Task:
Take a string of ASCII-art text and output the content of the text as regular ASCII text.
Input:
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Balance a set of weights on a seesaw
Balancing Act
Overview
Given an input of 3 single-digit positive integers representing a set of weights, output an ASCII representation of a seesaw with the weights placed on it so that it is in ...
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Kill it With Fire
Disclaimer: The story told within this question is entirely fictional, and invented solely for the purpose of providing an intro.
I am an evil farmer, and to drive up the price of wheat in my area, ...
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Can Jimmy hang on his rope?
Yet another Jimmy challenge by his original father. See these other lovely challenges.
As you all know, recently we've been seeing challenges related to Jimmy on platforms. Now, Jimmy is an acrobat ...
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ASCII Dragon's Curve
Introduction
The Dragon's Curve is a fractal curve that notably appears on section title pages of the Jurassic Park novel.
It can very simply be described as a process of folding a paper strip, as ...
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Random ASCII Art of the Day #5: Diamond Tilings
Mash Up Time!
This is instalment #5 of both my Random Golf of the Day and Optimizer's ASCII Art of the Day series. Your submission(s) in this challenge will count towards both leaderboards (which you ...
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Fill in the lakes
Given the topography of land in ASCII picture format, figure out where lakes would go and fill them in. Assume an infinite amount of rain.
example
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Eiffel Towers: Create a large "A" from "A"s
Create a function which given a number of lines n, makes a bigA.
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Jimmy needs your help!
It seems as of recent, there have been a lot a Jimmys falling to their death, as can be seen here, and here where you were asked to determine if Jimmy would fall. It is time we put a stop to this ...
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Rotate a Chinese checkerboard
A Chinese checkerboard looks like this (based on this question, but this time it has a fixed size):
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Embedded Hexagons!
Your task: given an integer n, generate an embedded hexagon pattern following the below rules, to the nth depth.
An embedded hexagon has the basic shape of this: (...
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Rotate an ASCII art image
Out of all of the ASCII characters, it is easy to tell that some of them form groups that are rotations of the same basic character. For example, V > ^ <. ...
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Build an analog clock [closed]
Write a program which displays the current system time as an analog clock, using ASCII graphics. The clock must show at least the hour and minute pointers, and must have enough resolution of at least ...
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Transform 7-segment display pattern into number
Given A and B, where A is the scale of a Digital LED Pattern B. Parse pattern B and print the number.
input:
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Alphabet Spiral
You are to write a program or function that outputs this exact text:
OPQRSTU
NQPONMV
MREDCLW
LSFABKX
KTGHIJY
JUVWXYZA
IHGFEDCB
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