graphics (Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The
fine art of drawing diagrams using the
ASCII character set
(mainly "|-/+").
See also
boxology. Here is a serious example:
o----)||(--+--|----+ +---------o + D O
L )||( | | | C U
A I )||( +--|-+ | +-//-+--o - T
C N )||( | | | | P
E )||( +--@#|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U
)||( | | | GND T
o----)||(--+--|#@----+----------+
A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier
circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit
Figure 1.
And here are some very silly examples:
|///| ____/| ___ |_/| ___
| | o.O| ACK! / _ |` '| _/
| | =(_)= THPHTH! / / /
| (o)(o) U /
C _) (__) /// _____ ////
| ,___| (oo) / /
| / /------- U (__)
/____ || | /---V `v'- oo )
/ ||---W|| * * |--| || |`. |_/
//-o-\
____---=======---____
====___ /.. .. /___==== Klingons rule OK!
// ---__O__/--- \
_ /_/
_____
__...---'-----`---...__
_===============================
,----------------._/' `---..._______...---'
(_______________||_) . . ,--'
/ /.---' `/
'--------_- - - - - _/
`--------'
Figure 2.
There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the
standard character names in the fashion of a rebus.
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
"A Bee in the Carrot Patch"
Figure 3.
Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an
entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is
shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
(__) (__) (__)
(/) ($$) (**)
/-------/ /-------/ /-------/
/ | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||
* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love
Figure 4.
(1996-02-06)