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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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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Regular ASCII Polygons
There are 4 regular polygons that we can construct using ASCII art:
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Output integer given a digital clock style input
Input
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output
1234567890
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Reconstruct the ASCII art from a string
I have a bunch of ASCII art that I have recovered from a failed hard drive. Unfortunately, all of the newlines were stripped out, and I don't know the resolution of the original artwork. I do know ...
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Make a haystack (with a needle)
(Essentially the inverse of Find the needle in the haystack)
Given two tuples, (w, h) and (x, y), generate a haystack composed ...
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ASCII TURNED SHAPE
How can we depict a turned shape simply and nicely using ascii characters in 3D space?
I suggest this method :
Instead of a circle we use a square rotated by 45° for the cutting section so that we ...
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Make Korean Character Multi-style Ascii/Box Art
About Hangul
As I'm Korean, I'm really proud of Korean character, Hangul(한글).
Hangul is a syllabary invented by King Sejong the great, 4th king of Joseon dynasty, in 1443.
Because today (October 9th) ...
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Diamondize Some Text
Given an input string of length 2 or longer consisting solely of alphabetical characters [A-Z] or ...
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C4_4 Reflection!
In this challenge, your task is to input a rectangle ASCII pattern (You may assume only printable characters need to be handled, and you may assume a trailing newline or not), C4_4 symmetrify, and ...
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Fill a bowl with alphabet soup
We seem to never get tired of alphabet-related challenges...
The recipe
Given
a string of letters S, and
two positive integers ...
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CUT OUT HEXAGONS
Write a full program or a function taking an unsigned integer number N and doing this cut out work:
Cut out a hollow hexagon 'donut' shape with side B-C equal to 2N times '/'
Translate the piece ...
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Codegolf : the HEX [closed]
INTRODUCTION
I like Karma Fields : he's a music producer that creates original music tracks. His artwork also matches up really well his style.
He has a logo witch I find really interessing :
GOAL
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Output a Super Mario Image
This is a problem on Luogu OJ. I decided to post it here because on Luogu OJ, many people, including me and my friend, are interested about how to solve this problem within the fewest characters.
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ASCII Maze Rendering 3000
I don't like typing, so I draw my mazes in a very simple format:
# #####
# #
# ### #
# # # #
# # #
##### #
Isn't it a-maze-ing? Of course, I think all ...
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Weigh your words!
The challenge
Given two strings, each of length up to 30, consisting of printable ASCII characters (codes \$[32, 126]\$), put them onto a balance scale in the fewest bytes of code! This consists of ...
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Build a mob of suspiciously happy lenny faces ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I was going through a bizarre thread on Reddit, and came across this:
( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)
It's representing a group of people smiling somewhat suspiciously.
(In the challenge below ...
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Print an array as a table [closed]
Write a program that prints an associative array (key-value) to a table.
Requirements
Standard loopholes are forbidden
Please include a link to an online interpreter and the byte count in the answer
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Tile the chessboard with four-colored triominoes
Task:
Consider the problem: "given a chessboard with one square missing, cut it into 21 L-triominoes". There is a well-known constructive proof that this can be done for any square ...
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Move arrows along a contour
Sandboxed
Given a set of closed non-overlapping 2d contours (separated by at least one space even on diagonals) with arrows oriented consistently in the same clockwise or counter-clockwise direction (...
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Invert Some Switches on a Switchboard
Inspired by this challenge.
Goal:
Given a pre-configured switchboard and a list of indexes, invert the switches at the given indexes.
A switchboard is made up of some number of switches (...
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Brute-force the switchboard
The other day, our team went to an escape room. One of the puzzles involved a board of six mechanical switches where you had to find the correct combination of on and off in order to unlock a box, ...
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Battle of the Jimmys
/o\ Jimmy has been receiving a lot of attention on this site recently and it has caused Jimmy to get a little stressed. The bodybuilder Jimmys ...
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Draw Recamán's sequence with ASCII
Recamán's sequence (A005132) is a mathematical sequence, defined as such:
$$A(n) = \begin{cases}0 & \textrm{if } n = 0 \\
A(n-1) - n & \textrm{if } A(n-1) - n \textrm{ is positive and not ...
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Jimmy needs a new pair of shoes!
Jimmy has had a busy last week with all these platforms and ropes, and poor Jimmy doesn't even have legs or feet to stand on!
Your job is to take a string containing multiple Jimmys and give them ...
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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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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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Alice's First Code Review
Alice is an intern in a company that uses Brainfuck as a primary language for both client-side and server-side development. Alice just has written her first code and she's a bit nervous as she's ...
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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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Fill the maze with a wall-following Snake until it gets stuck
Make a snake fill any maze (until it gets stuck).
The snake
The snake starts at a given starting point, pointing EAST. It moves by always having a wall or a part of its body immediately to the LEFT of ...
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Make Gimbap cutter
Gimbap(김밥) is Korean food, somewhat looks like sushi roll.
Here is Korean emoticon represent Gimbap : @))))))))))
Your quest is make ASCII Gimbap cutter.
Rule
Input ...
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ASCII Meme Arrow Generator
Specifications
Given a number n, output an ASCII "meme arrow" (greater-than symbol, >) of size ...
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Manhattan Directions Code Golf
This code golf challenge is to show directions through numbers.
When the user enters a number, then that means a direction change as follows:
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Overlapping String-Blocks
Challenge:
Given a list of multi-line strings, overlap them (in the top-left) and output the result.
Example:
Input: ["aaaa\naaaa\naaaa\naaaa","bb\nbb\nbb","c"]
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Construct a word ladder
Given a list of at least two words (made only of lowercase letters), construct and display an ASCII ladder of the words by alternating the direction of writing first to the right, then to the left, ...
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Expand a hexagon
Given an ASCII art hexagon as input, output one whose sides are all one unit longer.
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Warped chessboard
This challenge is about building a chessboard in which the square size, instead of being constant across the board, follows a certain non-decreasing sequence, as described below.
The board is defined ...
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Extrude the faces of a cube symmetrically along XYZ
Sandbox
For the purposes of the current task, a cube of unit length is rendered in oblique projection with ASCII symbols as follows:
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Make some Prime Squares!
What is a Prime Square?
A Prime Square is a square where all four edges are different prime numbers.
But which ones?
And how do we construct them?
Here is an example of a 4x4 Prime Square
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Stars Make Stars
Introduction
The idea is to use the asterisk character (star) * to display an ascii-art star at a specified dimension. The dimension is an input number greater ...
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Make it rain characters
Inspired by this chat mini-challenge.
Given a string as input (ASCII printable characters only), output the string with the letters "raining" down. Each letter must be a random number of lines ...
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Today is the Center
Given a date as input in any convenient format, output a calendar with that date as the exact center of a five-week window. The header of the calendar must include the two-letter abbreviations for the ...
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Rotate ASCII Art by 45 Degrees
Your task is to take an ASCII art image and output it rotated clockwise by 45 degrees and scaled by a factor of \$\sqrt 2\$. The scaling comes from using a lattice pattern which introduces space ...
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Relevant Part for a Badminton Serve
Introduction:
I saw there was only one other badminton related challenge right now. Since I play badminton myself (for the past 13 years now), I figured I'd add some badminton-related challenges. Here ...
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Lay out the Carpet
Inspired by this SO question.
Challenge:
Input:
A string \$s\$
A character \$c\$
Output:
Create a diamond-square ASCII art of the string in all four directions, with the first character of the ...
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Japanese Multiplication [duplicate]
There's a visual method for multiplication that is taught to Japanese schoolchildren [citation needed] that uses lines and crossings to get the answer.
Image Source
Your task is to implement this in ...
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The Digit Triangles
Challenge:
Input: A positive integer \$n\$
Output:
Create a list in the range \$[1,n]\$, and join it together to a string (i.e. \$n=13\$ would be the string ...
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Make a Bowl of Alphabet Soup
This is what we'll call a bowl of alphabet soup - a roughly circular ascii-art shape with the 26 uppercase English letters (A-Z) arranged clockwise to form the perimeter:
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Output visual diagram of picture
Write a program that inputs the dimensions of a painting, the matting width, and the frame width for a framed portrait. The program should output a diagram using the symbol ...
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Convert ASCII art numbers to integers
Inspired by this game
Challenge:
Given an ASCII art string representing a number, output that number.
Example:
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Print a physical multiplication table
Rectangles have this nice property - an \$n \times m\$ rectangle consists of exactly \$n \times m\$ characters!
A.. more interesting property is that the rectangles can be aligned nicely in a ...
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