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Box Art

A schematic or blueprint drawn in box-drawing characters, with each cell matched to the line that fits.

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Lines made of characters

The edges of the picture are classified into horizontal, vertical, corner and diagonal cells, and each cell is drawn with the box character that fits it. The result reads as a technical drawing made of text.

Four colourings

Mono draws the lines in one colour. Source takes each cell's colour from the picture. Duo uses two colours, and ANSI uses the 16 colours of a terminal.

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.

Colour
MonoSourceDuoANSI
  • EdgesOutline the picture for line art and blueprint looks, with three classic edge detectors.
  • 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.
  • HalftoneA real halftone screen — an angled grid of cells whose ink coverage tracks tone, in dot, line, cross or square, with a separate four-colour process screen for CMYK.

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