Show HN: Asciilator.com

4m1rk | 22 points

I'm not sure I understand the appeal of sites that are literally a less-than-a-sentence prompt I could have typed myself.

dmd | 2 days ago

tried with `goldfish`

           _.-=-._       
        .-`  '---`  '-.   
      /      .-"-.     \  
     |     /  _  \     |  
      \    \ (_) /    /   
       '-._ '-=-'_.-'     
            '---'         
 
im not sure what this is
voidofpasswords | a day 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 :)

cadamsdotcom | 2 days ago

Object: pizza pie

       _      
     _|=|__________
    /              \
   /                \
  /__________________\
  |   ________   ___ |
  |  |      |  |   ||
  |  |      |  |   ||
  |  |      |  |   ||
  |  |      |  |   ||
  |  |      |  |   ||
  |  |      |  |   ||
  |  |______|  |___||
  |_________________|
     ( )      ( )
    (   )    (   )
      ( )    ( )

A flying house?? Very curious!
dwaltrip | 2 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.

1024kb | 2 days ago

Not quite sure it's working properly. Just saw a shrek face labeled "pikachu", and a column with nothing else labeled "windmill".

mysterydip | 2 days ago

Is it using a model to generate the ASCII art?

It’s quite clever.

Simorgh | 2 days ago
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| 2 days ago

Lmao, its so random.

ASCII Art for "bambi":

         ,   ,
        /////|
       ///// |
      /////  |
     |~~~| | |
     |===| |/|
     | B |/| |
     | A / | |
     | M |  |
     | B |  |
     | I | /
     |===|/
     '---'
    /     \
   /       \
  /  .-""-. \
 (  /      \ )
  \/        \/
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
   |        |
  /          \
 /            \
/ \
shibeprime | 2 days ago
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| 2 days ago

Created using FastAPI and HTMX.

4m1rk | 3 days ago

cool

Ayushmishra23 | 2 days ago

       ___
     _/   \_
    /       \
   |         |
   |         |
   |         |
    \_______/
      /   \
     /     \
    /       \
   /         \
  /           \
  |   ___     |
  |  (___)    |
  |           |
   \         /
    \_______/
b0dhimind | 2 days ago