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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ASCII Maze Compression
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Design a compression algorithm specialized for compressing ASCII mazes. You will need to create both a compression algorithm and a decompression algorithm. Your score will be based on the ...
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The (Easy) Road to Code
Input:
An integer \$n\$, which is guaranteed to be \$\ge3\$.
An integer \$d\$, which is one of \$[-1,0,1]\$.
Output:
A road of size \$n\$, which will be in a north-west direction if \$d=-1\$; a ...
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45 degree quine [closed]
A very simple golf this time, but should be fun to do.
Challenge
Output your code, but rotated 45 (or -45) degrees. E.g:
lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
becomes
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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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Build ASCII Podiums
In sporting competitions, it often happens that winners are presented on podiums, with the first-place person on the highest in the middle, the second-place person on the middle height to the left, ...
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Arbitrary Interval Ruler
Make a program that takes a length and list of intervals and outputs a ruler of that length with longer ticks for each interval using the line drawing characters ...
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The Great Pyramid of Quine
The task is a rather simple quine challenge with a twist, you must output your source code in the shape of a pyramid. The shape of a pyramid is defined below:
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Drawing a tree from an array
Given a possibly nested, non-empty array of single-digit positive integers (not guaranteed unique), output the ASCII-art representation as a tree, using the box-drawing characters ...
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Help Notwen simulate gravity!
Notwen wants to study the kinematics of bodies thrown from big heights in a uniform gravitational field but unfortunately he doesn't have the technical possibility to go to sufficiently high places ...
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Classic VCS ASCII Adventure
Growing up, my first console game system was an Atari 2600 and I will always have a love for some of those games I so enjoyed as a child. Many of the graphics are still memorable, perhaps even iconic....
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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).
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Dungeon Crawler
Input
A binary matrix \$M\$ representing the walls of a dungeon.
The position \$(x,y)\$ of the player within the dungeon.
The direction \$d\$ that the player is currently facing (0 = North, 1 = East, ...
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Draw some expanding arrows
This challenge is about printing a series of growing ASCII-art arrows. I'll describe the pattern in words, but it might be easier to look at what the start of this series looks like:
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Iron particles around a magnet
There are some iron particles on a board. We pass a current carrying wire through that board and the particles form circles. Show these circles if input given is the position of the wire.
Consider the ...
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Code Golf: Letter-Ception
The Challenge:
For an input of one letter X (upper or lower case from A to Z) and one digit N (0-9) print the corresponding letter X made of N * X.
The letter has to be from this list:
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Fill the Bucket
Your task is to fill the bucket with numbers upto a given input.
Rules
Numbers occupy the leftmost position then rightmost, then leftmost and so on.
After overflow, the numbers start to gather around ...
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Print a square!
Print this text:
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Shortest code wins. Notice the space at the start of the first line.
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ASCII art H trees
An H tree is a fractal tree structure that starts with a line. In each iteration, T branches are added to all endpoints. In this challenge, you have to create an ASCII representation of every second H ...
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Drawing the Peano curve
Introduction
In geometry, the Peano curve is the first example of a space-filling curve to be discovered, by Giuseppe Peano in 1890. Peano's curve is a surjective, continuous function from the unit ...
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Tribute to Stan Lee
Unfortunately one of the greatest comic book writers passed away yesterday afternoon. Lots of Hollywood stars, musicians, actors, and many other people are paying tribute to this awesome writer, so we ...
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Outline words with their letters
For the purposes of the current challenge to "outline" a word means to surround it successively with its own letters, starting with the last one, and finally to replace the original word in the center ...
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ASCII Art Octagons
Given an input integer n > 1, output an ASCII-art octagon with side lengths composed of n characters. See examples below:
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Let's play tennis 2: east-west game
There is a challenge Let's play tennis by Daniel. He proposes to place a court in the North-South direction. My proposal is to create a court to play tennis in the East-West direction too.
You ...
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Convert an ASCII art table to a UTF-8 table
When I write documentation, comments, etc. I love making ASCII tables. They usually end up looking pretty good, but I always feel that they could look even better - especially since UTF-8/Unicode ...
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ASCII Calendar Planner
Given a list of activities and their start time/date, output an ASCII-art calendar showing the activities on the appropriate days. All activities are guaranteed to be in the same month, no two ...
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Be there, for the square [duplicate]
Sometimes when you're lying in bed and reading a message, your phone screen will pop into landscape mode right in the middle of a sentence. Only being able to read left to right, you find yourself ...
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Making a Mountain out of a Molehill
You are given a string of terrain, with molehills and mountains:
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Track an object in 2d space
Description
The task of this challenge is to devise a program or function that tracks a given object in an \$n×n\$ space.
I/O
Your program will be given 3 inputs, which may be taken in any sensible ...
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Build a Board of Napier's Bones
This proposal had few attention for 8 months (though an answer was posted in the sandbox at that time), so I decided to post it anyway.
Introduction
Napier's bones is a calculation tool, which helps ...
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Crop ASCII Art Challenge
ASCII art is fun. Modern text editors are very good at manipulating text. Are modern programming languages up to the task?
One common task in ASCII art manipulation is to crop text to a rectangle ...
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Print a Quinella Table
ALERT: IN CASE YOU DOUBT, NO PUN ON "QUINE" IS INTENDED
In regulated horse-racing for gambling, bets called Quinella bets exist and in which a person bet on the first two places of a race. ...
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I done did made a spaceship maw!
Introduction:
Inspired by this comment of @MagicOctopusUrn on @Emigna's 05AB1E answer for my "It was just a bug" challenge:
8F9ÝÀNð×ý}».∊ I done did made ...
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Let's draw the Triforce
The Triforce is a fictional artifact in The Legend of Zelda, made of three identical-looking equilateral triangles representing power, wisdom and courage. Several games in the saga include an ...
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Codegolf Rainbow : Draw in Black-and-White
Introduction:
(Source: Wikipedia)
When we look at a rainbow it will always have the colors from top to bottom:
Red; orange; yellow; green; blue; indigo; violet
If we look at these individual rings, ...
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Howdy! I'm the sheriff of code golf!
It's likely that anyone who used Twitter a couple of months ago would know about the 'Howdy! I'm the sheriff of X" meme. Where a simple image of a sheriff is drawn with emoji, and changes to fit a ...
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Alternating Pattern
In a now deleted stackoverflow question, someone posted the following:
Write a program or function to print alternating patterns in * and ...
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Draw the "Cool S"
Introduction
We all know the cool S (also known as Superman S, Stüssy S, Super S, Skater S, Pointy S, Graffiti S etc. etc.): billions of schoolchildren around the world drew this S and immediately ...
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Drawing convex polyiamonds
Description
OEIS sequence A096004 gives the
Number of convex triangular polyominoes [polyiamonds] containing n cells.
It begins:
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Stacked digit staircases
Given positive integers \$w\$ and \$h\$ output \$w\$ columns and \$h\$ rows of text as described below.
The first row begins with 11 0s, the second row with 10 <...
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Draw an ASCII meandering curve
For the purpose of this question a meandering curve is one that follows the general direction from left to right, but makes repeatedly n+1 turns at 90 degrees to the left and then n+1 turns to the ...
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Rounded Rectangles
Challenge
Given an integer greater or equal to 4, n, print a rounded rectangle of as close as possible (with a gap of 1) sides and a perimeter of n characters.
Rules
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A nicely-spaced ASCII spiral
Consider this spiral
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Starting in the centre:
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Output an ASCII "splat"
If you throw an ASCII egg in a given direction, you end up with an ASCII splat of size n. It "starts" with one o (the yolk), and continues in a given direction with ...
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Let's design a digit mosaic
Challenge
Given a positive integer \$N\$, repeat each of its digits \$d_1, d_2, d_3, \cdots, d_n\$ a number of times corresponding to its position in \$N\$. In other words, each digit \$d_k\$ should ...
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Zigzag this string by collapsing duplicates
Given a string, your task is to collapse it into a zigzag-like structure as described below.
Folding into a Zigzag
We'll take the string "Mississippi" as an ...
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