ASCII curtains
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Today our home rely on a network of cables, pipelines and connections. Most of the information we have access to is passing through these "roots." ASCII-Code curtains, by Dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy, visualize the information network in a tree, using the very codes that represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text.
Via Beton & Garten. I tend not to read blogs written in a language i cannot understand but there are exceptions, Beton and Garten is one of them. |
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Thanks for the honor, and thanks for the translation of the dutch text, I could only guess before!
these are fantastic. they wouldn't happen to be for sale anywhere? i'm having a hard time translating the site.
best is to write the designer
info@nsybrandy.nl
BTW, there's lots of programs out there that will turn images into ASCII text. Stuff based on aalib is probably the highest quality, it uses lots of characters (like the sample here) compared to simple gradient based conversions, and takes into account the shape of the letters.
Printing it on the curtain is a nice application.
Why not encourage them to include languages that you can understand? Or at least provide the frame work for someone who can translate. Check out the work of the Worldwide Lexicon Project and their Wordpress, Moveable Type or Drupal plug-in. Their tools provide a framework for translating web-based content like blogs.
Those characters don't mean anything, they just form a convenient shape. That's not programming code.
Where can I get some of those curtains.