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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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My Squiggly Lamp

Python 2, 36 bytes print"-"*4+"\n ()"*input()+"\n/__\\" For input 4: ---- () () () () /__\ Note that for Python that any lamp shade using pipes is a byte less. -1 bytes thanks to @Alex!
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Draw an asterisk triangle

Noether, 14 bytes I("*"i1+*P?!i) Try it online
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My Squiggly Lamp

Noether, 26 bytes "-"4*P?I(" ()"P?!i)"/__\"P Try it online!
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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 fe …
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Keep my Trip Cool!

Challenge Walking around Marks and Spencers, I noticed that they had air conditioning units placed randomly around the shop. Wanting to keep cool, I wondered what was the easiest way to move around t …
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Print the Australian Flag!

Python 2 - 1258 bytes import zlib v=len l=zlib.decompress("x\x9c\x95\x94I\x12\x83 \x10E\xaf\xc2\x05,F\xd1l<\x87\x0b\xaar\x11\x0f\x1f\t44\x9fv\xe1\"\xd5\x08y\xbfG\x08\xbb\xfaZ\xa5\xd4\xfd\xbb\\P\xe7 …
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Antiferromagnetic ordering

BBC BASIC, 70 bytes INPUTx:n$=STRING$(x,"/|\\|/"):PRINTn$:PRINTSTRING$(x,"\|//|\"):PRINTn$ This can probably be golfed more
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Antiferromagnetic ordering

Python 2, 47 bytes Port of my BBC BASIC answer, taking advantage of how Python can easily reverse strings. n=r"/|\\|/"*input();print n+"\n"+n[::-1]+"\n"+n
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Asciimation Jumping Jacks

Python 2, 99 bytes Runs on Windows import os,time g=0 while 1:os.system("cls");print["\\o/\n_0_","_o_\n 0 \n/ \\"][g];time.sleep(1);g=~g For UNIX machines, add two bytes: import os,time g=0 whi …
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Horizontal graph of word length

Python 3, 72 bytes A nice one liner :) print(''.join(map(lambda x:"*"*len(x)+"\n"*int(x!=""),input().split()))) Output: >>> print(''.join(map(lambda x:"*"*len(x)+"\n"*int(x!=""),input().split() …
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Beta's Snowflake

Challenge Winter is fast approaching with many places receiving the first layers of snow for the 15/16 season, so why don't we break out the snow machines and code ourselves some snow? Given a integ …
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Hexagolf: Validagons

Challenge Given an ASCII art shape, you must find out whether the shape is a regular hexagon or not. Hexagons A regular hexagon is defined using two rules: It has six sides Each side has equal nu …
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Year progress bar

Fourier, 68 bytes Note, this has been invalidated by rule changes since it does not handle leap years 3d~D4d*30+D~s*100/365~p365(s>0{1}{9618asv~s}s{0}{9617a}i^~i)32apo37a Try it in FourIDE! Outpu …
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HexaGolf: Wordagons

See also: Rotatagons Challenge Given a string as input, output its wordagon. Wordagons A wordagon is a way of representing a string in a hexagon. Now, let's create a wordagon from the string hexa: …
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HexaGolf: Rotatagons

See also: Wordagons Challenge Given a hexagon and a number n as input, output the same hexagon rotated n times. Hexagon The hexagon will be a string like so: a b c d d e e f f o g g h h i i …
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