ASCII Art has been around as long as computers have, this directory is
just a small collection of 'simple' art I saved for later use.

When I mean 'simple' I mean basic ASCII, such as can be put in code, or emails.
Nothing fancy.



That said ASCII Art can get very complex.

* for printing on impact or dot matrix printers, with multple characters
  overlayed (using backspace) typically to darken the overall character.

* use of color in the output

* ANSI Terminal codes (such as graphic modes)...

* Animations using screen clear and ANSI codes, to redraw frames.
  (output may need slowing and flushing to make this work properly)

* Unicode, taking it well beyond norman ASCII
  The Box Drawing Graphic Characetrs for example are very usful here.



On top of this there are special and specific uses of ASCII Art...


* Large Multi Line ASCII fonts for titles and headings.
       _ _ _          _   _     _
      | (_) | _____  | |_| |__ (_)___
      | | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __|
      | | |   <  __/ | |_| | | | \__ \
      |_|_|_|\_\___|  \__|_| |_|_|___/

  See programs such as "Figlet".
     http://www.figlet.org/


* Box drawing around text, to generate 'comments', 'email signatures',
  or just highlight some element.

               ___       ---     ___________________________
   |   _______/__ \____/  ||    /                           |
   |-=|  \_\_\_           ||---<  Your message goes here... |
   |   \_________\ + \ ____|    \___________________________|
                     \___\

  See "boxes" program, though this does not support Unicode at this time.
     https://boxes.thomasjensen.com/about.html
     https://github.com/ascii-boxes/boxes

  Or my own 'simple' shell script
     https://antofthy.gitlab.io/software/#box_text
  And basic shell functions in the collect...
     https://antofthy.gitlab.io/info/shell/small_functions.txt

  Also see in this directory...
     https://antofthy.gitlab.io/info/ascii/Signatures.txt


* Small "Spinner" and "Heartbeat" animations, such as the classical
  spinning line, which is used to denoting that the program is either still
  actually working, or still recieving input.

  For more details see in this directory...
     https://antofthy.gitlab.io/ascii/Spinners.txt

  Warning a number of programs are available to do this, though these
  often run in parrellel, and thus are not true 'activity indicators'
  showing that the program is actually still working.