dmd3 days ago
I'm not sure I understand the appeal of sites that are literally a less-than-a-sentence prompt I could have typed myself.
dwaltrip3 days ago
But you didn't, and they did :)
It made me smile, I'm glad they built it.
dmd3 days ago
Well, no, I have many times typed exactly that prompt, because making a hundred billion dollars worth of computer go "brr" to make ascii art is amusing! I just don't understand what the point is of a dedicated site.
4m1rkop3 days ago
Even the UI is created by AI :bushes:
cadamsdotcom3 days ago
Life is complete, I now have a beautiful 2D ascii elephant!
Random idea: now animate it.
Run the initial generate, keep that result, provide it back to another llm call: “user requested an elephant. you drew this. (object here) generate the next frame of an animation of this.”
Iterate the prompt 2-3 times for cool animated ascii art :)
4m1rkop3 days ago
I like that! Though it's not very smart or consistent at creating ascii art.
voidofpasswords2 days ago
tried with `goldfish`
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dwaltrip3 days ago
Object: pizza pie
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4m1rkop3 days ago
It was too excited ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1024kb2 days ago
Looking at some of the popular suggestions, it can't help with some words, because they are too rude, however, "pen is" returns something rather long.
mysterydip3 days ago
Not quite sure it's working properly. Just saw a shrek face labeled "pikachu", and a column with nothing else labeled "windmill".
4m1rkop3 days ago
Yeah, it sometimes doesn't feel like it. I tried different prompts but it's not that smart at generating ascii art.
Simorgh3 days ago
Is it using a model to generate the ASCII art?
It’s quite clever.
4m1rkop3 days ago
It's gpt-4.1
Simorgh3 days ago
Got it — it’s interesting how a text model can generate compelling visual representations that are essentially style-matching.
Matching styles using vision models is not that easy, especially if you want to capture the core subject of the prompt.
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shibeprime3 days ago
Lmao, its so random.
ASCII Art for "bambi":
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/ \4m1rkop3 days ago
I'm curious too. Should've make it explain why it generated what generated and as a note :D
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4m1rkop3 days ago
Created using FastAPI and HTMX.
Ayushmishra233 days ago
cool
b0dhimind3 days ago
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