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 a 3D shape
Write a program or a function to print the following cube (if you allow me to call it so) in different sizes:
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The first published picture of the Mandelbrot set
Here’s the picture of the first published picture of the Mandelbrot set.
Use the fewest bytes possible to write a program or function that outputs the following.
A trailing new line is permitted. ...
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Draw an ASCII hexagon of side length n
Given a positive integer \$n\$ output an ASCII hexagon with diagonal side length \$n\$, as pictured (note there are \$2n\$ _ characters on the top edge)
Examples:
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Golf me a polygonal loader
Codidact post, CGCC Sandbox, Codidact Sandbox
Given three positive integers as input, animate an ascii-art polygonal loading symbol on the screen.
Intro
You will be given three inputs, \$n\$, \$l\$, ...
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(1) Determine the amount of statues
Inspired by this stack of little statues that are currently on my desk at work, given to me by my colleagues from Sri Lanka when they visited The Netherlands:
This is split into two different ...
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(2) Can the statues be stacked?
Inspired by this stack of little statues that are currently on my desk at work, given to me by my colleagues from Sri Lanka when they visited The Netherlands:
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Towering Cistercian representation
SE Sandbox Link, Codidact Sandbox Link
Inspired by this video.
Given a positive integer, draw its Cistercian representation as ascii art.
The Challenge
Cistercian numerals are a decimal-based number ...
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Clock with ASCII art [closed]
It is quite simple, any language, make output show the time in the HH:MM or HH:MM:SS while the numbers and the colons being ascii art(The output is ascii art not the program)
Sample output:
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How happy is this emoticon? (2.0)
OG post
Task
In this challenge, you will be given an string emoticon, and your task will be to output its happiness.
How?
An emoticon will always have eyes and mouth. It can also include eyebrows and ...
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Cat a mouse: ASCII art pointers
The Xerox Alto, originally released in 1973, was the first computer to feature the now-familiar angled mouse pointer. The Alto's bitmapped pointer looked like this (redrawn from Fig. 2 here):
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Recognise a Digit from a Positional Encoding
Starting an the origin on an infinite grid, you follow a predetermined path going up (U), down (D), left (...
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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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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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Convert LifeOnTheEdge to LifeOnTheSlope
Your task here is to take a LifeOnTheEdge pattern and convert it to LifeOnTheSlope.
A LifeOnTheEdge pattern is composed of these four characters: |_L . A pattern ...
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Draw an ASCII-art rainbow
Draw an ASCII-art rainbow!
Input
An integer between 0 and 1000, inclusive.
Examples
Input 0:
/\
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Input 1:
_
/ \
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Give Me a Ladder!
I think everyone is familiar with the game of snakes & ladders1. Imagine we have a 10x10 board like this:
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Play a Game of Minigolf
Background
I feel that for a site named code-golf we have a shockingly little amount of golf being played. Let's fix that.
Challenge
Determine whether the hole of a minigolf course can be reached ...
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Solve a 2xN Maze
Given a \$2\times N\$ maze, determine if you can get from the start top left corner to end bottom right corner using only up, down, left, and right moves.
Input
A \$2\times N\$ block (\$1 \le N \le ...
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Determine the area enclosed by slashes
For example, let's look at the following ASCII art:
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Make paper snowflakes! [closed]
The task
Given a folded and cut in places snowflake, "unwrap" it and output the result
Input
The base folded snowflake, without any cuts, looks like:
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Read an ASCII clock
Related to, but not a duplicate of, this challenge.
Basics
This is a clock:
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Parse ascii art math!
The task
Given a multiline string with ascii art operators and numbers, parse the expression!
Possible symbols
Numbers: (3x4)
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root of root of root of root
This idea came to me when I saw my little brother playing with my calculator :D
The task
Taking a integer as an input, print that many graphical square roots under each other, like this:
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Rod of Asclepius
With this challenge we pay homage to everyone around the whole world fighting against the coronavirus crisis; particularly represented are the people tied to medicine, as the Rod of Asclepius is a ...
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Draw the prime race tracks
Odd prime numbers are either in the form of 4k+1 or 4k+3 where k is a non-negative integer. ...
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Triangular code, triangular output
For this challenge, submissions should be a program or function shaped like a right triangle, which produces a right triangle of the same size.
What is a right triangle?
For this challenge, a right ...
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Draw an ASCII oak tree (or a woman with curly hair?)
Task
Your task is to draw these beautiful oak trees:
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This highway needs rain across both of its lanes
In this challenge you will take a an ascii art image of a highway like so
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Alternating Triangles
Given a strictly positive integer n (therefore 0 isn't a valid test case), produce an approximate triangle of height ...
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Your Oscilloscope has ExPloDEd ! Make a sine wave [closed]
[ CODE GOLF]
BAM! - Fire and Smoke
Your Oscilloscope has exploded from one too many waves.
Re-create these waves assuming the following:
All waves are Sine Waves
An amplitude of ...
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ASCII art is ready for take-off
Task
Given a positive integer n, draw the corresponding rocket.
Examples
From n = 1 to 4 ...
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ASCII Pizza (no pineapple)
I like pizza!
Task
Given the radius of a pizza and a list of ingredients, create the corresponding ascii pizza!
Example size 4 pizza with mozzarella cheese, olives and ham:
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Give me Triangles [duplicate]
Given an integer n>0, write a program that will output an "isosceles" Triangle out of #'s of height n.
Examples:
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2D Path Drawing [duplicate]
(This is not a duplicate of Follow the path, as this challenge have invalid path detection and use ><^v in the output.)
Task
So your task is to take in the ...
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Hexagonify™ a String Block
Sandbox
What is Hexagonification™?
Hexagonification™ is a transformation that creates a hexagon with 3 copies of a rectangle block, each skewed to the right by 30 degrees and then ...
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Advent calendar
Let's build an advent Calendar for this Christmas!
Many Advent calendars for children take the form of a large rectangular card with numbered windows for each day of December starting from 1 ( ...
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Generate an ASCII art representation of a ribbon plot
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In this code-golf challenge, you are provided with a series of y values at even x-values as well as a console width and height. The desired output is an ASCII-art representation of a ...
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Draw a fully-rendered path from direction changers
(Note: this challenge is distinct from my other challenge (Draw a path made from direction changers) because of it's rendering of direction (horizontal or vertical), crossing points and single or ...
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Simplify the following C ascii graphing function
This wasn't originally intended for code-golf, just as a little debugging routine to roughly visualize something "goofy" going on in a model of some (irrelevant here) physical process. But ...
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ASCII texturing
Write a function or a full program that applies an ASCII texture to a 2d shape.
Inputs: shape, texture, dimensions(optionally).
Both Shape and Texture can be given by any convenient method (2d ...
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Exploding Primes
At the time of writing this puzzle, there are soon to be 269 puzzles related to primes. To celebrate/mourn this event (269 is prime), this challenge will be about exploding primes. In preparation for ...
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In Flanders Fields
Today is November 11th, which for many regions is Remembrance Day.
If you don't know anything about the history or context of Remembrance Day, you can read about it in the wiki page, but it's not ...
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Expand a recursive pattern
Given a description of the base state of a recursive ASCII pattern, output an expanded state somewhere along the recursion steps.
More specifically: Let the following be an example:
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What is my volume?
Given an input integer, output the volume corresponding to the value. The value will always be in the range \$[0,100]\$.
Examples
If the input \$=0\$:
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Golf Lathe Machine
You probably know what a Turing Machine is but do you know what is a Turning Machine (lathe)?
Ok you already know.. and what about a Golf Turning Machine ??
Ok I tell you..
A Golf Turning Machine is ...
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ASCII Pumpkin Carving [duplicate]
Today is Halloween and it's time to carve some pumpkins!
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((^.^))
Given an input integer, string, list of integers, etc., output the corresponding ...
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Follow the Path, but is it valid?
Follow the Path
I got directions to my friend's house, but it looks like his map might have some mistakes. He's expecting me soon, so I need some short code to figure out if I can get there.
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