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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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Print a Christmas Tree

Lua: 83, 89 or 97 A fixed-height 10-layer tree can be done in 83 a=string.rep for i=0,9 do print(i<1 and a(" ",8).."*" or a(" ",9-i)..a(0,i+i-1))end Providing a height parameter takes it to 89 h= …
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6 votes

Print a Christmas Tree

Prolog: 183 or 186 r(0,_,L,L). r(N,C,L,[C|T]):-N>0,M is N-1,r(M,C,L,T). y(S,T,C):-r(T,C,[10],X),r(S,32,X,Y),atom_codes(A,Y),write(A). x(A,B):-A>0,y(A,B,48),C is A-1,D is B+2,x(C,D). x(N):-y(N,1,42),x …
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2 votes

ASCII Art of the Day #1 - Double Knot

Prolog (SWI), 285 bytes a(N):-b(N," || || "," / \\/ \\","_ /\\ \\/\\_","_ \\/\\ \\/_"," \\/ /\\/ /"," / /\\/ /\\"," \\ /\\ /"). b(N,[A|G],[B|H],[C|I],[D|J],[E|K],[F|L],[Y|Z]):-c(N,[Y,A],[E,F,C, …
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