A while back I wrote Asciimg, a minimalistic tool that can display images within a terminal. The tool implements a rudimentary dithering algorithm to translate colour intensities to ascii characters. I was recently playing around with it and thought of a few creative ways to put it to use. If you wish to try the examples below yourself, the source code for Asciimg is available at github. The experiments presented below are of limited practical value, and the way they are implemented is not pa...
