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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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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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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"KNOT" or "NOT"?
Write a program that processes an ASCII art representation of a tangled string and decides whether or not it can be untangled into a simple loop. The tangle is represented using the characters ...
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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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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'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?
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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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Draw the Olympic Games logo [closed]
Challenge
Draw the Olympic Games logo...
...as character (e.g. ASCII) art!
Sample Output
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It took me a lot of time to make this, pls like. (YouTube Comments #1)
Hold up..... this isn't trolling.
Background
These days on YouTube, comment sections are littered with such patterns:
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Seven Slash Display
Write a program that takes in a non-empty string of the digits 0 through 9 and prints how they would be shown on a seven-segment display using slashes (/, ...
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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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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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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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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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Golf an Advent Calendar
It's that time of year when many of us get our advent calendars! If you are unfamiliar with an advent calendar, these are special calendars used to count down advent in anticipation of Christmas. In ...
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3D ASCII Block Building
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Write a program that takes an 11x11 array of integers, and constructs a 3D ASCII block building, where each value in the array represents the height of a column of blocks at the coordinates ...
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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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[CHRISTMAS THEME DISCLAIMER HERE]
Note to mods, if the title doesn't do justice, change it to whatever, I thought it was funny.
You're tasked with hanging up the lights for this Christmas season, and your family has decided that for ...
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Telescopic Parentheses
Consider a non-empty string of correctly balanced parentheses:
(()(()())()((())))(())
We can imagine that each pair of parentheses represents a ring in a ...
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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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Golf Dennis a thermometer
Dennis puts in a huge amount of effort for this community, including as moderator, language designer, and provider of TIO.
Unfortunately, his four-year-old daughter has caught a cold, so let us all ...
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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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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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Happy Birthday V!
Thanks to @KritixiLithos for helping me out with this challenge!
V is a programming language that I wrote so that I could use and extend vim for code-golf challenges. The very first commit was on ...
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Turtles All the Way Down
Write a program or function that takes in a positive integer and prints or returns a stack of that many ASCII-art turtles, where each turtle is larger than the one above it.
Specifically, if the ...
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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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Interpreting Fish (no, not that Fish)
Consider these five ASCII art sea creatures:
Standard fish: ><> or <><
Speedy fish: ...
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Two lasers between two mirrors
What if we have a corridor comprised of two parallel mirrors?
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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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"As a child, I was told Spiders felt no emotion."
The challenge: output this exact ASCII art of a spiderweb in a window:
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Oreoorererereoo
Oreoorererereoo
Given an input string that is similar to the word "oreo", give an ASCII representation of the cookie that is as wide as the input string (to ensure cookie stability).
Rules
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All in all it's just, uh, another trick in code golf
The purpose of this challenge is to produce an ASCII version of the cover of this great album by the rock band Pink Floyd.
The brick junctions are made of characters ...
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The Quantum Drunkard's Walk
It is well known that a person on a grid under the influence of alcohol has an equal chance of going in any available directions. However, this common-sense statement does not hold in the realm of ...
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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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ASCII Train Golf
Consider these seven ASCII train cars.
Engine (E)
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| [] |=========
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O-O-O O-O-O \\
Passenger car (...
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This isn't rocket science
Write a program or function that takes in a single-line string. You can assume it only contains printable ASCII. Print or return a string of an ASCII art rocket such as
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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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9 Hole Challenge [closed]
The 9 Hole Challenge
9 code golfing challenges of varying difficulty.
Penalties for using the same language more than once.
The question will be updated with pars, hole champions and trophy winners....
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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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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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Golf Your Language's Identicon
Identicons are small images of geometric patterns that represent the hash value of a string. Stack Exchange uses the identicons from Gravatar as each user's default avatar image.
In this challenge, we ...
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Fit a word into an alphabet grid
Inspired by a meme I saw earlier today.
Challenge description
Consider an infinite alphabet grid:
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De-Snakify a String
A regular string looks like this:
Hello,IAmAStringSnake!
And a string snake looks something like this:
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Make the Stretchy Snakes Kiss
A stretchy snake looks something like this:
<||=|||:)~
Each separate sequence of vertical bars (|) in a stretchy snake, ...
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Thinking outside the box - Am I doing it right?
I keep hearing that thinking outside the box is a goal worth achieving, but how can I tell if I'm successfully doing it?
To solve this dilemma I have already wrote a Brainwave-to-ASCII-translator ...
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i love yOu i lOve you i love yOu!
XKCD #99, with the title "Binary Heart" shows a simple image of ones and zeros, with some digits colored red.
The red heart is visible to the naked eye, but the message hidden in the binary sequence ...
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Is my prison secure?
Your challenge is given an input of a prison layout to work out whether any of the prisoners can escape.
Input
Input may be in any reasonable format such as a string, array, array of arrays etc. The ...
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Quack the Angry Duck
No one is quite certain what the emoticon >:U is intended to represent, but many scholars believe it looks like an angry duck. Let's assume that's the case.
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Could you make me a hexagon please?
Today, we're going to make an ASCII hexagon. You must write a program or function that takes a positive integer n, and outputs a hexagon grid of size n, made up of asterisks. For example, a hexagon of ...
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