Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this. One of the ...

A Twitter user has uncovered a trick to turn some Facebook or Instagram photos into nostalgic works of text-art. Mathias Bynens, a ‘web standards fanatic’ according to his profile, recently revealed ...

Amid all the fuss over DeepSeek, OpenAI has pushed out o3-mini, a new AI reasoning model available to all ChatGPT users. The mass roll out means people are already putting it to intriguing uses, which ...

Developer Victor Widell has created an automated script that searches through the web and automatically detects ASCII art hidden within its pages. Developer Victor Widell has created an automated ...

The folks behind Facebook's image upload software are revealed to have been translating images into ASCII art automatically. While we're not certain how web standards enthusiast Mathias Bynens ...

We all use text-based fields at one time or another, and being limited to ASCII only can end up being a limitation. That’s what led [Luke Wren] to create asciiwave, a fantastic tool that turns ...

While AI chatbots are, in general, trained to not provide responses that could cause harm to the user or others, researchers have discovered that many chat-based large language models including GPT-4 ...

Peter Nitsch of Teehan+Lax has been experimenting with new ways of interacting with ASCII art that go well beyond static text images. His latest project combined a projector and a computer too allow ...