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Block Mosaic

The image drawn in Unicode block characters: square cells, curated ramps, ink and paper colour.

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TYPE
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Controls with options
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A picture made of block characters

Each cell is drawn with a block character chosen for its tone, so dark areas take the heavy blocks and light areas the thin ones. The grid is square and geometric, which suits a graphic, screen-like look.

Styles and colour

Style chooses the ramp of characters: Steps uses the stepped blocks, Dots the dotted ones, Dice a pattern of pips, and Pixel Quad the quarter-cell blocks, among others. Colour sets the cells in Mono, in the picture's own colours (Source), in two tones (Duo), or in the 16 colours of a terminal (ANSI).

Every option, from the app

Generated from the registry the app publishes, so this list is whatever the current build actually ships — not a copy of it.

Style
StepsEighthsQuadrantsVerticalDiagonalArcTerminalDotsShapesDicePixel Quad
Colour
MonoSourceDuoANSI
  • ASCIIImage to text art: per-cell luminance mapped through nineteen character ramps via a font atlas, with mono, source-colour, duotone and ANSI-16 colour — or laid out as a page of code instead of a grid.
  • Half-BlockTwo colours in every cell: the BBS-era ANSI art trick that doubles the vertical resolution of text.
  • Box ArtA schematic or blueprint drawn in box-drawing characters, with each cell matched to the line that fits.

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