ASCII Art from 1934(squareamerica.com)
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ASCII Art from 1934
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I fail to see how this is ASCII art. ASCII didn't even exist before 1934. A more appropriate title might be Typewriter Art.
Lots of forms of art don't get a genera name until after they've started ;). Just because the first "cubist" painting came before the term got coined doesn't mean it isn't a cubist painting. And just because this showed up a few decades before ASCII itself was hammered out doesn't mean we all don't know exactly what it is when it's described as ASCII art.
For that matter, it's not "ASCII art" because it's encoded that way (as opposed to "UTF-16 art"), it's because it's made up of text characters in a grid.
This certainly counts.
This certainly counts.
It is also reminiscent of an embroidering pattern.
Apparently as early as the medieval times people recorded reference embroidery patterns and examples, see this cloth with an assortment of different building blocks: http://home.comcast.net/~mathilde/embroidery/gallery/va0782-...
I agree - I think this is more a cross-stitch pattern than ascii art - especially since it only uses one character (X). It is however quite fancy, and I do appreciate the time it would have taken to produce it.