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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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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Crate art stacking
Your task is, given a array of numbers, that is strictly increasing, output the crate stack. The input is an array of positive integers which represents which layer has how many crates there are. So ...
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Draw a battery indicator
Given the battery level L in the range 0-5, your code should draw the following ASCII art.
When ...
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Draw a Signal strength indicator
Given the signal level L in the range 0-4. Your program should draw the following ASCII art.
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Draw an ASCII Volume
Given a volume level V in the range 1-10. Your program should draw the following ASCII art.
When ...
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ASCII Brainfuck
Given a random code written using Brainfuck commands. You program should translate that code into the following ascii art: each Brainfuck command represents as 5x9 ...
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Disassemble tables
Given a string that represents a bunch of tables stacked on top of each other and/or arranged side-by-side, disassemble all the tables.
Tables
A table looks like this:
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Draw an ASCII pencil
Task is pretty simple. Your program should take a number N from 1 to 20 and draw the ...
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Pretty print my arrays
I like to pretty print multidimensional arrays, like this:
[ [ [1, 2, 3],
[4, 5, 6] ],
[ [7, 8, 9],
[6, 4, 2] ] ]
But it's a pain to do by hand and it'd ...
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Real-world progress bar
Backstory, skip if you like
Generating high quality pseudo random numbers is a tricky business but the fine engineers at < enter company you love to hate > have mastered it. Their progress bars ...
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Triangle Tripler
Simpler version of this
Task
You must create a program that outputs a triangle of a given size N.
A triangle is made of 3 identical triangles
A triangle of size N should be made of N lines
A triangle'...
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Trap the hero in a maze
You are an evil wizard, doing evil wizard business, when suddenly your crystal ball alerts you of a hero on their way to defeat you. To crush their hopes and dreams, you decide to trap the hero in a ...
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Shanghai ascii game sticks
Remove one stick and output the stack updated.
Description
You can remove only sticks on top( completely drawn).
You can assume:
there are 5 sticks on the table.
there's one and only one stick you ...
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Is this continuous terrain? Part II
Caves and Cliffs edition
Part 1, Very related
You're given a piece of ASCII art representing a piece of land, like so:
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Replicate "dotnet ef" unicorn
.Net Technology is an incredible framework with marvellous functionalities, and among all of them, the most important one obviously stands out:
Yep, your simple task is create a program that when it ...
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Cell Evolution Matrix
Your lab needed to simulate how a particular cell evolves over time in a 2D grid space. A sample 2D grid space below shows a single cell at the centre of the grid.
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Shrink ASCII art
The inverse of this question.
Your challenge is to, given a piece of ASCII art generated by the above question and its enlargement factor, shrink it down to its original size.
The enlargement process
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Mat Printing Matrix
A manufacturing company wants to print a design on mats of varying dimensions, and they hired you to program a robot to make these mats. The design consists of alternating rings of any 2 symbols on a ...
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Golf Conway's Primordial Still-Life
Background
Note: This configuration was co-found by one of our fellow code golf enthusiasts, Zgarb
A 29 year old conjecture by John Conway about the Game of Life was recently solved.
To quote Conway ...
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Sides of a polygon
Given an ASCII-art shape made of the characters /\|_, your challenge is to return the number of sides it has.
A side is a straight line of one of those, for example:...
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Rotate a grid 90 degrees clockwise
The task is simple, given an integer n of how many lines the next n lines is and, a multi-line input, output the resulting 90 ...
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Is this continuous terrain?
Very related
You're given a piece of ASCII art representing a piece of land, like so:
/‾\
__/ ‾\_
\_/‾\
\
Since an overline (...
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Mr. ASCII becoming uncanny with your own code
Let's make a little stupid program that simulates the meme "Mr. incredible becoming uncanny", but in this case, our little ASCII friend is going to react to our code length.
Objective:
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Fill the (possibly leaky) bowl
Challenge:
Given an ASCII art of a (possibly leaky) bowl consisting of a random distinct non-whitespace and non-~ character, fill it completely with ...
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Double the diagonal squares
Given a positive integer N, output this doubling pattern of slash squares/rectangles.
For N=1, the base is:
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Loading Circle Animation
Loading Circle Animation
Challenge
Write a full program that takes no input (or has an unused input) that displays exactly the following ASCII animation for as long as possible or only 8 frames.
Frame ...
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Stitch a hitomezashi pattern
Challenge
Given two binary vectors (containing two consistent values of your choice) of length \$n\$ and \$m\$, output a corresponding ascii-art hitomezashi stitching pattern.
You are to fill the ...
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Draw Lines in ASCII [closed]
Challenge
Draw lines in ASCII corresponding to given inputs:
in the first line there are given size of rows and columns of the view and number of separators between each point
in the second line is ...
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Triangle of triangles
Given an integer \$n \geq 2\$, print a triangle of height \$n\$ of (triangles of height \$n\$ of asterisks), as in this SO question.
For \$n=2\$, print:
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Pretty print a grid of polyominoes
Write a function that accepts a rectangular grid of ids in any reasonable format, for example a multi-line string:
IIILOO
ILLLOO
and a string or list of box ...
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Find the longest line
Given a string containing only the characters -, |, + and newline determine the longest ...
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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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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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Maximal hexagonal dot pattern
Challenge
Imagine a hexagonal grid as shown below. Let's call such a grid has size \$n\$ if it has \$n\$ dots on one side. The following is one of size 3:
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Enlarge ASCII art, Mark II
Related
Given a piece of ascii art and a factor to enlarge it by, which will always be an odd number >1, replace each character with the corresponding ascii-art, resized to fit on a grid the size ...
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The Roly-Poly, Square-Wheeled Quine
Code-Golf caddy Eddie Brackets was getting tired of quine challenges, which appeared to be much too easy for the grand poobahs. He has this idea to spice up things and is sending quines to the car ...
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Polyagony layout (mode 3/3,6)
Background
Polyagony is a family of hypothetical esolangs where the source code is laid out on a specifically shaped board before running it. It's similar to Hexagony, but various uniform tilings can ...
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ASCII-Plot the equation
You are given a polynomial function, in the following format:
\$x = (c_0 * y^0) + (c_1 * y^1) + (c_2 * y^2) + ... + (c_n * y^n)\$
where \$c_n\$ stands for the coefficient of the \$n^{th}\$ power of \$...
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Jump trajectory
This is an ascii-art challenge where you will draw ascii-art showing a person "jumping" off the top of a building.
The building
Input given will be a group of rectangular buildings. You may ...
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Create Word Lightning
Sandbox
Inspired by a Codingame challenge I tried (and failed at) about a month ago.
Given a binary tree of words, say:
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Draw an ASCII Grid
(Based on this closed challenge, related)
Given an integer n > 1, draw a grid composed of the characters: "-" "+" and "|". However, since I want the grid to look nice, ...
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Create an ASCII line, given a length
Information
Create a diagonal line given its length (let’s call the variable, say, \$n\$ where \$n > 0\$)
The diagonal line starts from the top left and goes to the bottom right.
You must use the ...
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A bracket amphitheater
Specification
Write the shortest possible code in any language that does the following:
It takes two arguments, x and y, and generates x + y lines of text.
The first x lines should consist of y nested ...
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I give you ascii-art, you make it pseudo-3d
Do you know the optical effect of a tridimensional hand painted whit horizontal lines?
Examples
This challenge consists of making something like that effect with ascii, and transforming one 2d input ...
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Implement cowsay
Introduction
cowsay is a Unix command made by Tony Monroe, written in Perl. It outputs a picture of a cow saying given text. For example:
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Implement Minecraft's Rails
Background Information
Inspired by this answer on Arqade SE
Minecraft has rails which allow you to move minecarts around on them for transporting players, entities, and items. There are many types of ...
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Drawing the Stack Overflow logo
From here. Every new game is the first day of the month, 12:00 PM UTC.
The goal is to create the Stack Overflow logo using ASCII characters.
It looks like this.
The exact output should look like this:...
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Print the Najdorf Sicilian
The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence is an opening often played at the highest level of chess. It is named after GM Miguel Najdorf and is known for being extremely sharp and theory heavy.
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Pretty-print my BQN Arrays
Marshall Lochbaum's online BQN REPL has an interesting(and aesthetically pleasing) method of displaying arrays. Your task is to implement a version with simpler rules.
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Sr. 4Der says make this shape! (Episode 1)
Dialogue by a 3Der.
I was hired by Sr. 4Der to learn the 4D universe and I was willing to get to know more about it. But since I am a 3Der, I wouldn't see him, nor would I know how the real shapes ...
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