In case it's of historical interest/amusement, I generated the three HTML images in the node cited above from these ascii art images:
using cog's Acme::AsciiArt2HtmlTable
module.
Actually, I originally had four, but my meditation mysteriously (to me) was not being displayed correctly.
I was cursing and swearing at the time, thinking I'd made some HTML blunder,
not appreciating there's a 64K size limit per node and that I had just exceeded
that limit. When it finally dawned on me what was spoiling all my hard work,
I reluctantly removed the lovely little orange HTML picture of pijll. :-)
At the time, I was not aware of any prior art in this area, other than
cog's little module, so thanks to liverpole and the respondents for
furthering my education in this area.
While creating these HTML images was fun at the time, I don't plan on repeating
it any time soon owing to the bandwidth concerns raised by jdporter.
Fun References Added Later
Obfus:
Secret Operators:
Poetry:
Quips and Quotes:
Other:
Node Size Limit:
HTML Table Emojis (with some bandwidth concerns):
- Good Intentions: Wikisyntax for the Monastery by LanX (Jan 2016)
- Re^3: New Design for Sending + - votes on PerlMonks (Inline Images) by LanX (Jul 2025) - examples of adding images to posts without the bandwidth concerns of HTML tables via Base64 encoding (<img width="50px" height="50px" src="data:image/gif;base64,...), SVG (<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="#000000" width="50px" height="50px" viewBox="0 0 32 32" version="1.1"> <title>perl</title> <path d="M...) and ASCII Graphics
- Re^8: How am i doing? by LanX (Jul 2025) - (<table bgcolor="blue"><tr><td bgcolor="red" fgcolor=blue height="75" width="75" align="center"><P> <big><font color="blue"> <b>Thanks!</b></font> 👍</big> </td></tr></table> <P> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-708738"> <!--nowiki--><p><font color="blue"> <b>SCNR</b></font> Rolf 😜<br> <sub>(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) <br>) 👍 😜
... by harangzsolt33:
... harangzsolt33 also features in these nodes:
Image Macros:
Unicode Emojis: (no bandwidth concerns)
Unicode Emojis were added later to these old nodes:
Egyptian Hieroglyphs:
Ascii Art:
- ASCII art
- AAlib - a software library which allows applications to automatically convert images into ASCII art
- Text::AAlib - Perl Binding for AAlib
- libcaca - a software library that converts images into coloured ASCII art
See also nodes by harangzsolt33 above.
Ascii Art on CPAN:
Terminal Color and RGB Graphics:
Avatars:
CPAN:
Other:
- Image file format
- GIMP - Graphics Editor. Can export to HTML (as a table with coloured cells) and as ASCII Art using a plug-in to represent images with characters and punctuation
- APNG (wikipedia) - Animated Portable Network Graphics
- Animated GIF (wikipedia) - although GIF was not designed as an animation medium, its ability to store multiple images in one file naturally suggested using the format to store the frames of an animation sequence
See Also
Updated: Many Fun References were added long after the original reply was made
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