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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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Voronoi-Lloyd ASCII art [closed]
Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane (or part of plane) into regions close to each of a given set of objects ("seeds").
Here we’ll be dealing with discrete arrays or even rather with ...
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Custom Games of Life
There's a lot of questions about Conway's Game of Life, but nothing about customization (Related: 2-Player Life). Given an input, determine the result on a 100x100 grid after some iterations. The ...
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Shape Animation
In PowerPoint, there's just one overly used feature: animations. For simplicity, that shape will be a non-rotated rectangle.
The data is specified as an array of eight integers: ...
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Random point inside boundary
Given an ASCII art with simple closed paths using | and - (pipes and dashes), output a random point inside the boundary.
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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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ASCII-art polygons to GeoJSON coordinates
We're going to turn ascii art versions of polygons into their equivalent GeoJSON.
The ASCII shape language
The input ASCII language only has 3 possible characters:
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Is it a valid slash draw? [closed]
Given a rectangle input with only \, / and space, decide if it's a valid output of Drawing in Slashes
Empty lines and columns at ...
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How Mondrian is your fine art collection? [closed]
For the purpose of this challenge a rectangular piece of ASCII art is Mondrian if it looks the same upside down.
What does "looks the same" mean?
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Show a balanced binary tree
Given an integer \$n > 1\$, output a balanced binary tree with \$n\$ leaf nodes.
The tree should be constructed out of (space), ...
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Box blur the string
Box blur is a simple operation for blurring images. To apply box blur, simply replace each pixel with the average of its and the surrounding 8 pixels' values. Consider, for example, the following ...
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Fibonacci word fractal
The Fibonacci word is a sequence of binary strings defined as:
\$F_0 = \$ 0
\$F_1 = \$ 01
\$F_n = F_{n-1} F_{n-2}\$
The first ...
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A better Hexagony template
We once made a Hexagony template without actually knowing it. But after a bit of experience with Hexagony, it becomes apparent that it is not enough; sometimes the source code is too short for the ...
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Draw this fractal generated by applying Newton's method to cosh(x) - 1
I came across this picture the other day: (Credit to Josep M Batlle I Ferrer)
Your job is to generate this picture. This graph is generated by repeatedly applying newton's method to the graph of:
$$f(...
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Collect data on mushroom forests
In these previous challenges[1][2] I've been dealing with "mushroom forests". To help with these I draw little diagrams of the forests to help. In this challenge we are going to reverse ...
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Scribble Pad for Nerds
aka. implement an easier version of 05ab1e's canvas element.
Description
The canvas element is used to draw ASCII lines on the screen.
The (easier version of the) canvas element takes a list of ...
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Apartment Building
Draw an "apartment" building according to the specifications below.
Basic Rules
Take, as input, the number of floors of the building.
Return a building with that many floors meeting the ...
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Matrix Meets ASCII Art
A binary matrix represents a shape in the plane. 1 means a unit square at that position. 0 means nothing. The background is 0.
For example, the array ...
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ASCII-Art n'th Root
Challenge:
Given two integers \$a\$ and \$b\$, with lengths \$A=length(a), B=length(b)\$, output an ASCII-art of the \$a^{th}\$ root of \$b\$, including the answer rounded to \$A\$ amount of decimal ...
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Plot Slope Fields Given Differential Equation
Slope fields or direction fields, are a graphical representation of the solutions to a first-order differential equation of a scalar function. A slope field shows the slope of a differential equation ...
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Convert To Shorthand Part 2
Part 1 of the challenge revolved around converting the letters into specific unicode characters.
Lore
In this part we receive the output from the function made in Part 1, which now has to be arranged ...
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Generate all polyiamonds
A polyiamond of size \$n\$ is a contiguous shape formed by joining \$n\$ equilateral triangles side by side.
Your output should consist of two distinct characters, plus whitespace as necessary (▲ and ▼...
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Draw an ASCII envelope based on size input
You want to send an ASCII letter to someone, but you need an envelope to put it in. Your task is to output an envelope given a size as input.
Rules:
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Spaceship shooter
Your task is to output a spaceship of size n with shooters/guns and n bullets of character - ...
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Sandbox overflow
Your task is to output a square sandbox of size n+2 with / characters in the corners and | ...
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Negative of an ASCII photo
Task
Given an \$m\times n\$ binary ascii "photo", return the negative of the photo
Example:
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Circular chained compound
Task
Given a positive integer n, output the joined compound of circles
The circles are of square of size n+2 but removing the ...
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Building spikes
Inspired by this building (United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, Colorado)
Your task is simple, given a positive integer n, output the spiked building to ...
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S̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ the Word Search List
Introduction:
Every workday I read the newspaper in the morning while eating breakfast, and also do some of the puzzles at the back. When I do the word-search puzzles, I (almost) always go over the ...
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Can you draw this in one stroke?
Related | Related
Given an ASCII art with |, _, and , check if you can draw the art in one ...
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Ascii Fibonacci spiral
Let's continue the fibonacci based challenges stream, here's the next one:
Task
Draw a Fibonacci spiral ascii-art of n segments where starting from the first term:
each nth segment has a length of ...
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Page Selector⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I'm making a page selector for my super cool terminal-based blog program. In order for it to fit correctly into the design, it has to have some constraints.
The page selector can only display a ...
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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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