Ascii to Icon

June 17, 2016 10:18 AM

Happy Friday! Enjoy this neat little toy that let's you make symbols and icon by typing out a grid characters. Brought to you by xqt2, a nobody.

There's a variety of neat things on this site, including an encrypted host-free page maker. (which I don't think is listed on the site)

posted by numaner (10 comments total)

Here's a neat little toy that lets you make a Chaos Magic(k) Sigil online to actualize your magical will! actualized results may vary
posted by FatherDagon at 11:31 AM on June 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

Wow, 23 favorites and one comment! That's a good ratio.
posted by JHarris at 2:35 PM on June 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

d================e
=................=
=....1...3.7+++8.=
=....#...#.+.....=
=....#..##.+.....=
=....#..##.+.....=
=....#..##.+.....=
=...##..##.+.....=
=...##.#.#.a+b...=
=...##.#.#+......=
=..#.#.#.#+......=
=..#.##.#.+......=
=..#.##.#.+......=
=..#.##.#.+......=
=..#.#..#.+......=
=.0. 2..4.6......=
=................=
g================f

Huh, it's kind of like Markdown, Nethack and ImageMagick had a threesome that somehow resulted in a child.
posted by lore at 2:39 PM on June 17, 2016 [6 favorites]

...........
.....ba....
...........
.....#.....
.....#.....
.... 2.....
a....#....a
.....#.....
.1...#...3.
.....#.....
.....ba....
...........
posted by fhaugen at 9:41 PM on June 17, 2016 [2 favorites]

b....................c
......................
.............v........
......u...............
............5.P.......
.............P.R.w....
..........4...R.......
........pp.oo...7.....
...t.3................
.........m.n..........
........mm.nn..6..x...
......................
......................
D..C..............J..I
........j...l.........
....s.....k...........
......2........8......
........g....9...y....
..........1..h...K....
......................
E....r...............N
eF...Gq.g....h..zL..Md

It's almost like a puzzle. It's a shame it's not possible (as far as I can tell) to get another open path after you run out of numbers.
posted by lucidium at 12:38 PM on June 19, 2016 [2 favorites]

Nice one, lucidium! We need more people contributing art here, I think.
posted by JHarris at 12:48 PM on June 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

lore, thank you for saving me the effort on that since it was exactly what came to mind.
posted by cortex at 2:44 PM on June 19, 2016

And yeah, the puzzle-ish nature of it is an interesting part of the odd constraints, lucidium. Here's a real simple Sierpinski Carpet, done in one of what seems like a variety of possibly hacky styles:

0.......1
c ei kf d
.G.....G.
.q.   .u.
. .   . .
.s.   .w.
.h.   .h.
c eo mf d
3.......2

posted by cortex at 2:59 PM on June 19, 2016

And a Sierpinski Triangles:

       A      .
      B C
     E   I
    F G J K
   a       m
  b c     n o
 e   i   q   u
f g j k r s v w

An isometric cube:

   b .c...
  .    1

a  d     2
E  F     3

       4
   H  G  

FIAMO:

..........
xy D......     

         E


   F     




wz

posted by cortex at 3:31 PM on June 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

hail Satan btw

0       0

 
 .e   b.
.    .
...  ...
. .  . .
 c .. .d
  .
  ..a
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posted by cortex at 3:38 PM on June 19, 2016 [1 favorite]