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| 1 | 1 | laforge | h1. ANSI Artwork |
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| 3 | ANSI artwork is a kind of low-resolution graphics that is created using the ANSI character set and its related color capabilities. It is typically made for the traditional 80 columns x 24 rows character mode display available on PC graphics cards. (24 rows as the 25th bottom row was usually occupied by the status line of the [[Terminal_Program]]. |
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| 5 | ANSI artwork can exceed far beyond its ancestor of ASCII artwork. |
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| 7 | See also |
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| 8 | * "wikipedia on ANSI art":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art |
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| 9 | * "An Abbreviated History of the Underground Computer Art Scene":http://cd.textfiles.com/darkdomain/www/html/history-art_scene.html |
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| 10 | * "16colo.rs - Collection of ANSI art work":https://16colo.rs/ |
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| 12 | h2. Editors |
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| 14 | ANSI artwork can be created entirely by hand in a text editor, but it is relatively cumbersome to do so. |
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| 16 | Over time, dedicated software for the creation of ANSI art was established. |
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| 18 | The most well-known software at the time is probably "TheDraw":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw |
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| 20 | TheDraw is long unmaintained/abandoned. |
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| 22 | Today, there are open source alternatives such as |
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| 24 | * "pablodraw":https://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/ (.NET) |
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| 25 | * "moebius":https://github.com/blocktronics/moebius (node.js / Javascript) |
