You should do the ASCII art again and add a diffuse backlight as suggested but do it with green plastic bad instead of blue so when you light it up it looks like and old green screen terminal! Green will work better with the room lights and white paint as it will still be visible. Might need to tweak the backlight color and brightness to get the old green CRT color down but the transition should be awesome!
ASCII was created around 1961, and officially adopted around 1963. I think you are referring to ASCII ART as being created around 1981, not ASCII itself. Back then you would see ACiD requests all over BBSs, which stands for ASCII Creator In Demand.
I would not consider current ASCII art the same as 80's ASCII art. These days, we have the computing power to render as a shader. None of that existed then. All ASCII art was manually constructed, the algorithms to render in ASCII did not exist til later.
Just as a bit more information, ASCII was standardized well before 1981, I think it was way back in the early 60's because I have PDP-8 computer from the 60's that uses it... and we used to have ASCII graphics on our APPLE II computers back in the late 70's.
There's a little terminology confusion in the beginning where you refer to BBSes using ASCII art and describe ASCII as being released in 1981. (7-bit) ASCII was defined in the early 1960s and many computers used it throughout that time, including consumer devices produced in the 1970s before the IBM PC (eg: Apple ][ series, various Commodore machines, TRS-80, even the ones that predated CRT displays). What BBSes used was called ANSI graphics, which used the ANSI (8-bit) _Extended_ ASCII (see the top of the screen at 1:25) which was released with the IBM PC in 1981. People referred to them as ANSI graphics instead of ASCII to distinguish the old from the new (in a similar manner to how people referred to Sun's BSD based Unix as SunOS and their AT&T based Unix as Solaris, even though the corporation used both terms for both OSes). Key features of the ANSI extended ASCII included escape codes to define colors and set the cursor position, plus many graphical character that (7-bit) ASCII completely lacked. EBDIC is IBM's thing... (I won't even go there)
AWESOME! Feels like watching an episode of Bill Nye; there's so much information here! Excellent work explaining the concepts and history of ASCII, and I love the shot of Young Joel at the end! 😂
As a child of the computer age, a software developer for the last 30+ years, I find this fascinating! I also like the reference to BBS’s. At one time I ran the largest Atari based BBS here in Phoenix AZ. In any case, thanks for the trip back down memory lane!
I’m THAT old that I was doing, what became ASCII art, before ASCII was a thing. I remember seeing works done by some who were infinitely more talented than I was/am. The form predates computers and used to be done on manual typewriters. I’d nearly forgotten about the art form till seeing this 3:45 minutes ago. Computers have come a very long way from my first PC, with a 4K processor. It stored data on a 360 KB floppy disk. For you young’uns a KB was 1/1000 of a MB. 1MB is 1/1000 of GB. The 64GB of storage on my phone would take 1,777,778 floppy disks to hold that data. That would weigh about 49,778 kilograms (110 pounds). I love thinking about how far computers have come since I first used one in 1975.
I'd love to see you create a 3D/multi-layered lithophane using 2-3 sheets of stacked/layered acrylic with a small air-gap in between each sheet and strategically chosen art. I think you could achieve some really amazing art that *speaks* to the observers differently depending on their angles of approach. I'd imagine if you stretch this idea far enough you could create 3D holographic-ish lithophanes... How awesome!?! 🤯 🎉 (Back-lit obviously 😁)
I would print it again but black and leave the back on and light the edges. That should make the ASCII stand out more than lighting it from behind I think. Specially if you use the acrylic that glows. I can't think of what that acrylic is called at the moment.
Next you need to use green acrylic, a black paint mask and an old monitor for your light box. For the ascii model it should be something that would look far too new to ever be on an old monitor with a black screen and green text. It would also be cool if you could make a slot (or some other easy way) to change out what is on the screen. If you do decide to do this idea, be extra careful if you use a CRT tube the insides can carry lethal voltages that need to be discharged safely.
I remember ASCII as being a big improvement. I started in 1969 with Baudot Code - 5 digit bianry that was uppercase and a few control characters. This was used to control teletype input/ output. So many changes and improvements over the past 50 years. I spent over a year on out Y2K team preparing for Jan 1 2000. I guess everyone did their job as nothing happened.
I was programing in BASIC in 1974 in the Dartmouth KEWIT computing center on a teletype. ASCII was in use at that time. The Wiki entry also indicates ASCII was developed in the 60's, so not sure where you get the 1981 date you keep repeating. Confused as you are usually better prepared. As for the computer past, I am happy to NOT have to use punched tape or punch cards for programming or magnetic tape (reel-to-reel or cassette) for mass storage, or even 8 inch floppy disks! Yes I and many "boomers" lived through the formative days of computing and am happy (most of the time) to have the computers and capabilities we have today. Kudos for exploring this "new" medium but I don't think I'll spend any time on it myself. Those that want to experiment with it may find something mind-blowing down the road; who knows?
Ok hear me out…. With the upcoming obi-Wan, you should ASCII art the scene from Epi III when the fighting over the lava and obi-Wan yells I have the high ground. Then when you go to cut it paint it all in black and only the two of them are cut out. To finish it up with lights you can put a blue light for Jedi and a red light for sith. Epic scene for a upcoming epic show of a epic universe which was made popular at the same time as ASCII. Ok ok I know I used way to many epics……
You should 3D print some translucent petg sheets in various translucent colors and do the painted lazer etching on those. It will combine your two devices. You could even dual color print the sheets or combine them like puzzle pieces or other ways.
AscII and BBS, boy that takes me back to my junior high and high school days. I miss those old ascii based games running around in dungeons as an @ character.
A Xenomorph head done in ASCII cut into green acrylic with black or dark grey paint would look awesome and would be very appropriate to the style of that film.
With the acrylic sheet try edge lighting it? Put an LED strip on one edge and the laser cut parts will glow. I’ve done this with a display holder that has an LED strip recessed into the base, this one LED strip could then light multiple sheets stacked and produce an even better effect?
I was thinking "Oh, that's neat!" until you put the light behind the blue paint acrylic setup, that looked reallly nice! I feel like it could look cool with a light that moves/rotates/changes behind it, or if you did one with green instead of blue and went the whole Matrix vibe.
Hi Joel, not sure if it has already been mentioned in the comments, but try the ASCII Lithophane on one of your resin printers in white resin. I have gotten amazing detail on photos in the past using resin printers, and I wonder if it will even show the characters clearly. Also, try reversing/inverting your lithophane and I think the light vs. dark will look better with the back light. Awesome content as always! Thanks for all your fun videos!
It'd be neato to re-create some iconic old hacker screens (i.e. from WarGames) in an appropriate color acrylic with black-painted front. You could have backlit wall art with the "WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?" on it.
The really 'deep' ASCII art was done on printers where you could overstrike the characters on each line - much better density plots. This was done by using the "Carriage Return" character but NOT the 'Newline' - the carriage on the printer would return to the left side but not advance the paper. Getting 256 levels of grayscale was pretty reasonable. Andrew's program is really cool - going the next level to add the overstrike lines would be fun :) Lithophanes are super fun - I used a picture of a stained glass window; wrapped 3 of them around a cylinder and printed shades for my front porch lights - they really came out great!!
If you're doing recognizable computer things, what about making a laser etch on acrylic of the Windows XP wallpaper "Bliss" in a green and blue lower and upper half with the ASCII generator.
It seems that your lithophane may be inverted in color as the lights are dark and those darks are light. I find I also get better results anyway when not inverted. Best of luck and love your videos!
ASCII dates from the 1960's, not 1980. From Wikipedia: "ASCII was developed from telegraph code. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on the ASCII standard began in May 1961, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's (ASA) (now the American National Standards Institute or ANSI) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963..."
You are exactly right. The DEC PDP computers, Commodore Pet Computers and TRS 80s all used ASCII and that was all in the 70s. 1981 was probably the time when IBM admitted ASCII was a thing.
Great fun! Try ░▒▓█ as the ASCII for a different look (the generator seems to add a few characters but it still looks cool). I wonder if a text render of maybe 2000 lines of a tiny (say 1 point) font size would look like, would it have the effect of increased resolution visually?
The Seattle City Skyline would be both classic and modern. That Benchie/Benchy The 3D printed piece would make a great piece to a LED lampshade. This whole video has exploded ideas into my head. Thanks.
Since your awesome Mini-Joel was done in acryllic, wouldnt it be possible to make a lightstand from which it would lit up the plate itself instead of backlight? I know my local shop does this on his glowforge and I have seen some pretty cool stuff done like that incl a few GI Joe logos that I need for my display ;)
Idea: laser-cut an acrylic wheel of the largest diameter possible on your GlowForge with a hole in the center around which the wheel could be spun (use a bearing if you want to get fancy). Before cutting, laser etch progressive images around the outer area of the disc, maybe 30mm tall, which, if the wheel was spun with the outer area backlit by a fixed light source, would create the illusion of your "model" moving.
Here's an idea: An ASCII printed Pic of Bob Bemer, which you then gift to one to his family, of course. Interesting look into the possibilities. Fun Video Joel.
Lithophanes are great but take ages to print. I made a 4x6 one as a gift and it took 8 hours. You should definitely play with it more but I would use real photos that have lots of contrast.
Since you like this so much, you should look up ASCII Stereograms. You could make a field of ASCII text that becomes a 3D MiniJoel when you look at it just right. Remember those magic eye pictures from the 90s? Same idea, but with ASCII. I made some of these when I was in college and they are super fun. There is a program out there that will take your text plus a depth map and create a document with the text shifted slightly to form the stereogram. If you need or want help, let me know. I should still have my old notes somewhere, and if not, I'll recreate them. This sounds fun. Update: omg omg omg it actually worked! Lots of things to improve, but it actually printed and I can see the "Hi". I have a 3D printed ASCII autostereogram! TH-cam keeps eating my comments when I post imgur links. I don't know how to show you the results. I don't have any social media accounts to post on.
Yes, it is a rabbit hole. Written character mapping to number values (aka codepoints) has a rich, complicated history culminating in the UNICODE standard of today that attempts to map all our known universe of written text even including emojis. For backwards compatibility, the first 128 values in UNICODE point to ASCII characters and control codes, more or less.
Joel. JOEL!!! This is rad man. I'm soldering litho lights right now. (Every time I watch your videos, I'm at my work bench working on something. Every time) There is money in Lithos. Anyhow I know what you can do... I think. You know those glass cubes you can get with like swans in them in 3D? It's like etched in to the middle of the transparent cube. ""Sub-surface Laser Engraving or a 'Bubblegram.'"" PUT MINI JOEL IN A CUBE OF GLASS! a... ASCII mini Joel!
What if you used your gmax to scale up the benchy to a point where the ascii is readible using fdm? Maybe switch to a 0.3 or 0.4 nozzle to get text detail. However just scaling it up should make the text clearly readable!
Dwarf Fortress is an old video game. If you've seen the Matrix code and understand how characters in the movie can see events happening in the world just by seeing the code, that is also how players of Dwarf Fortress "see" that game too. A deep rabbit hole indeed. Pun not intended. (Or was it?) Also, ASCII was the precursor to ANSI and then Unicode which we now use today. ASCII is technically a subset of Unicode I think.
Ha! The _original_ Mini Joel (12:15). Great job man. Definitely want to see a green Mini Joel done in a slightly higher resolution ASCII to STL with only hexadecimal characters. Think 3D printing meets The Matrix. OR... an orange Microbee logo with an ASCII to STL of a Microbee terminal. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBee
I have a suggestion for the laser engraved mini joel image, you could design a frame using a character extruded like & or @ or a combination or a few. did I explain that ok ?
Yes, make a light box. They're not hard. I imagine you will find lots of uses for it in the future. Derek from Make Anything can probably give you some pointers. Maybe consider a collaboration?
Can I just thumbs up 100 for all the things?! You make this hobby so much more interesting if that's even possible. I love the cross platform ideas. Let tech design new ideas it's great!
I would like to see more litho art, specifically showing what can be done to improve it. Use photos of family members to motivate you to produce something you want to keep.
I used to run a BBS back in the day and some of the most popular ASCII files on my board were always the more... ahem... risque photos. It was AMAZING the detail you could get from just ASCII characters! and if you printed these out - on dot matrix printers with continuous feed paper, of course! - some of these images could span two or three sheets! Too mad you can't use those images here... or could you? lol :)
There was also a popular strip poker game floating around the C64/Apple 2 world back then. Pre-internet we had to go to great lengths to see anything risque. ASCII ... 8,16 colors, didn't matter, it was vaguely the correct shape. lol, to be 14 again.
You should do the ASCII art again and add a diffuse backlight as suggested but do it with green plastic bad instead of blue so when you light it up it looks like and old green screen terminal! Green will work better with the room lights and white paint as it will still be visible. Might need to tweak the backlight color and brightness to get the old green CRT color down but the transition should be awesome!
Yes I was also thinking black paint instead of white.
I love the green crt idea. Make it Bob Bemer's face to pay homage to its creator :)
I like the black paint idea, then it's sort-off hidden when it's not turned on.
ASCII was created around 1961, and officially adopted around 1963. I think you are referring to ASCII ART as being created around 1981, not ASCII itself. Back then you would see ACiD requests all over BBSs, which stands for ASCII Creator In Demand.
I would not consider current ASCII art the same as 80's ASCII art. These days, we have the computing power to render as a shader. None of that existed then. All ASCII art was manually constructed, the algorithms to render in ASCII did not exist til later.
Just as a bit more information, ASCII was standardized well before 1981, I think it was way back in the early 60's because I have PDP-8 computer from the 60's that uses it... and we used to have ASCII graphics on our APPLE II computers back in the late 70's.
What model of PDP-8? I maintained a bunch of PDP-8 E units. Wore out a lot of erasers on the board and top connectors.
@@woodwaker1 8-L from about '68... I also have a 11/05 from '72.
Yeah, just checked because I was curious. Started in 1961, published in 1963, and majorly revised in 1967.
There's a little terminology confusion in the beginning where you refer to BBSes using ASCII art and describe ASCII as being released in 1981.
(7-bit) ASCII was defined in the early 1960s and many computers used it throughout that time, including consumer devices produced in the 1970s before the IBM PC (eg: Apple ][ series, various Commodore machines, TRS-80, even the ones that predated CRT displays).
What BBSes used was called ANSI graphics, which used the ANSI (8-bit) _Extended_ ASCII (see the top of the screen at 1:25) which was released with the IBM PC in 1981. People referred to them as ANSI graphics instead of ASCII to distinguish the old from the new (in a similar manner to how people referred to Sun's BSD based Unix as SunOS and their AT&T based Unix as Solaris, even though the corporation used both terms for both OSes).
Key features of the ANSI extended ASCII included escape codes to define colors and set the cursor position, plus many graphical character that (7-bit) ASCII completely lacked.
EBDIC is IBM's thing... (I won't even go there)
AWESOME! Feels like watching an episode of Bill Nye; there's so much information here!
Excellent work explaining the concepts and history of ASCII, and I love the shot of Young Joel at the end! 😂
As a child of the computer age, a software developer for the last 30+ years, I find this fascinating! I also like the reference to BBS’s. At one time I ran the largest Atari based BBS here in Phoenix AZ. In any case, thanks for the trip back down memory lane!
Take some green acrylic, paint it black and then laser engrave the hulk on it, put some leds behind and BOOM there is the magic.
I’m THAT old that I was doing, what became ASCII art, before ASCII was a thing. I remember seeing works done by some who were infinitely more talented than I was/am. The form predates computers and used to be done on manual typewriters. I’d nearly forgotten about the art form till seeing this 3:45 minutes ago.
Computers have come a very long way from my first PC, with a 4K processor. It stored data on a 360 KB floppy disk. For you young’uns a KB was 1/1000 of a MB. 1MB is 1/1000 of GB. The 64GB of storage on my phone would take 1,777,778 floppy disks to hold that data. That would weigh about 49,778 kilograms (110 pounds).
I love thinking about how far computers have come since I first used one in 1975.
I'd love to see you create a 3D/multi-layered lithophane using 2-3 sheets of stacked/layered acrylic with a small air-gap in between each sheet and strategically chosen art.
I think you could achieve some really amazing art that *speaks* to the observers differently depending on their angles of approach. I'd imagine if you stretch this idea far enough you could create 3D holographic-ish lithophanes... How awesome!?! 🤯 🎉
(Back-lit obviously 😁)
I would print it again but black and leave the back on and light the edges. That should make the ASCII stand out more than lighting it from behind I think. Specially if you use the acrylic that glows. I can't think of what that acrylic is called at the moment.
"what was once old, is new again" I feel like some company had that quote, and it fits here! So cool to see this coming back!
Next you need to use green acrylic, a black paint mask and an old monitor for your light box. For the ascii model it should be something that would look far too new to ever be on an old monitor with a black screen and green text. It would also be cool if you could make a slot (or some other easy way) to change out what is on the screen. If you do decide to do this idea, be extra careful if you use a CRT tube the insides can carry lethal voltages that need to be discharged safely.
I remember ASCII as being a big improvement. I started in 1969 with Baudot Code - 5 digit bianry that was uppercase and a few control characters. This was used to control teletype input/ output. So many changes and improvements over the past 50 years. I spent over a year on out Y2K team preparing for Jan 1 2000. I guess everyone did their job as nothing happened.
I was programing in BASIC in 1974 in the Dartmouth KEWIT computing center on a teletype. ASCII was in use at that time. The Wiki entry also indicates ASCII was developed in the 60's, so not sure where you get the 1981 date you keep repeating. Confused as you are usually better prepared. As for the computer past, I am happy to NOT have to use punched tape or punch cards for programming or magnetic tape (reel-to-reel or cassette) for mass storage, or even 8 inch floppy disks! Yes I and many "boomers" lived through the formative days of computing and am happy (most of the time) to have the computers and capabilities we have today. Kudos for exploring this "new" medium but I don't think I'll spend any time on it myself. Those that want to experiment with it may find something mind-blowing down the road; who knows?
Ok hear me out…. With the upcoming obi-Wan, you should ASCII art the scene from Epi III when the fighting over the lava and obi-Wan yells I have the high ground. Then when you go to cut it paint it all in black and only the two of them are cut out. To finish it up with lights you can put a blue light for Jedi and a red light for sith. Epic scene for a upcoming epic show of a epic universe which was made popular at the same time as ASCII.
Ok ok I know I used way to many epics……
You should 3D print some translucent petg sheets in various translucent colors and do the painted lazer etching on those. It will combine your two devices.
You could even dual color print the sheets or combine them like puzzle pieces or other ways.
I tried it :-D uploaded a quick vid to TikTok and tagged you. Pretty cool.
AscII and BBS, boy that takes me back to my junior high and high school days. I miss those old ascii based games running around in dungeons as an @ character.
A Xenomorph head done in ASCII cut into green acrylic with black or dark grey paint would look awesome and would be very appropriate to the style of that film.
I would LOVE to see you explore this more! Building a light box for these would be soooooo AWESOME! :D
With the acrylic sheet try edge lighting it? Put an LED strip on one edge and the laser cut parts will glow. I’ve done this with a display holder that has an LED strip recessed into the base, this one LED strip could then light multiple sheets stacked and produce an even better effect?
I was thinking "Oh, that's neat!" until you put the light behind the blue paint acrylic setup, that looked reallly nice! I feel like it could look cool with a light that moves/rotates/changes behind it, or if you did one with green instead of blue and went the whole Matrix vibe.
Hi Joel, not sure if it has already been mentioned in the comments, but try the ASCII Lithophane on one of your resin printers in white resin. I have gotten amazing detail on photos in the past using resin printers, and I wonder if it will even show the characters clearly. Also, try reversing/inverting your lithophane and I think the light vs. dark will look better with the back light. Awesome content as always! Thanks for all your fun videos!
It'd be neato to re-create some iconic old hacker screens (i.e. from WarGames) in an appropriate color acrylic with black-painted front. You could have backlit wall art with the "WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?" on it.
I can’t believe that’s your first lithophane 😵. Definitely make more! Now I’m wondering if you can belt print a lithophane…?
I’ve been wondering that too. I’ve got the CR-30 and infi-20 and Christmas ornaments are very popular!
The really 'deep' ASCII art was done on printers where you could overstrike the characters on each line - much better density plots. This was done by using the "Carriage Return" character but NOT the 'Newline' - the carriage on the printer would return to the left side but not advance the paper. Getting 256 levels of grayscale was pretty reasonable. Andrew's program is really cool - going the next level to add the overstrike lines would be fun :)
Lithophanes are super fun - I used a picture of a stained glass window; wrapped 3 of them around a cylinder and printed shades for my front porch lights - they really came out great!!
Very cool, you've definitely kept your edge. Great content! Cheers my man.
The obvious usage would be to take a modern STL and print it on an 90s 9 pin matrix printer in text mode.
If you're doing recognizable computer things, what about making a laser etch on acrylic of the Windows XP wallpaper "Bliss" in a green and blue lower and upper half with the ASCII generator.
For more of this art watch the music video "Black Tambourine" by Beck.
I have been working on designing light sources for lithophanes. Made christmas ornaments last year.
It seems that your lithophane may be inverted in color as the lights are dark and those darks are light. I find I also get better results anyway when not inverted. Best of luck and love your videos!
Andrew is super clever! This project is just so fun.
ASCII dates from the 1960's, not 1980. From Wikipedia: "ASCII was developed from telegraph code. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on the ASCII standard began in May 1961, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's (ASA) (now the American National Standards Institute or ANSI) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963..."
You are exactly right. The DEC PDP computers, Commodore Pet Computers and TRS 80s all used ASCII and that was all in the 70s. 1981 was probably the time when IBM admitted ASCII was a thing.
The ASCII middle finger has always been my favorite.
Great fun! Try ░▒▓█ as the ASCII for a different look (the generator seems to add a few characters but it still looks cool). I wonder if a text render of maybe 2000 lines of a tiny (say 1 point) font size would look like, would it have the effect of increased resolution visually?
The Seattle City Skyline would be both classic and modern. That Benchie/Benchy The 3D printed piece would make a great piece to a LED lampshade. This whole video has exploded ideas into my head. Thanks.
Ik there are quite a few games made with ascii characters. One thats still being worked on, its Dwarf Fortress
Since your awesome Mini-Joel was done in acryllic, wouldnt it be possible to make a lightstand from which it would lit up the plate itself instead of backlight? I know my local shop does this on his glowforge and I have seen some pretty cool stuff done like that incl a few GI Joe logos that I need for my display ;)
Idea: laser-cut an acrylic wheel of the largest diameter possible on your GlowForge with a hole in the center around which the wheel could be spun (use a bearing if you want to get fancy). Before cutting, laser etch progressive images around the outer area of the disc, maybe 30mm tall, which, if the wheel was spun with the outer area backlit by a fixed light source, would create the illusion of your "model" moving.
Here's an idea: An ASCII printed Pic of Bob Bemer, which you then gift to one to his family, of course. Interesting look into the possibilities. Fun Video Joel.
Lithophanes are great but take ages to print. I made a 4x6 one as a gift and it took 8 hours. You should definitely play with it more but I would use real photos that have lots of contrast.
Since you like this so much, you should look up ASCII Stereograms. You could make a field of ASCII text that becomes a 3D MiniJoel when you look at it just right. Remember those magic eye pictures from the 90s? Same idea, but with ASCII.
I made some of these when I was in college and they are super fun. There is a program out there that will take your text plus a depth map and create a document with the text shifted slightly to form the stereogram. If you need or want help, let me know. I should still have my old notes somewhere, and if not, I'll recreate them. This sounds fun.
Update: omg omg omg it actually worked!
Lots of things to improve, but it actually printed and I can see the "Hi". I have a 3D printed ASCII autostereogram! TH-cam keeps eating my comments when I post imgur links. I don't know how to show you the results. I don't have any social media accounts to post on.
added link in the discord WIP channel
I'd like to see what the glow forge can do with a lithophane on white acrylic with just a normal scenery.
Yes, it is a rabbit hole. Written character mapping to number values (aka codepoints) has a rich, complicated history culminating in the UNICODE standard of today that attempts to map all our known universe of written text even including emojis. For backwards compatibility, the first 128 values in UNICODE point to ASCII characters and control codes, more or less.
Joel. JOEL!!! This is rad man. I'm soldering litho lights right now. (Every time I watch your videos, I'm at my work bench working on something. Every time) There is money in Lithos. Anyhow I know what you can do... I think. You know those glass cubes you can get with like swans in them in 3D? It's like etched in to the middle of the transparent cube. ""Sub-surface Laser Engraving or a 'Bubblegram.'"" PUT MINI JOEL IN A CUBE OF GLASS! a... ASCII mini Joel!
What if you used your gmax to scale up the benchy to a point where the ascii is readible using fdm? Maybe switch to a 0.3 or 0.4 nozzle to get text detail. However just scaling it up should make the text clearly readable!
1981??? ASCII has been around since the early 60s. I was using ASCII in 1975 when I built my home brew 8080A.
Heh, yeah I realize that. My quick mouth as faster than my brain :)
@@3DPrintingNerd All this ASCII talk sure brings back some old memories! Really fun that ASCII graphics are being 3D printed.
Yep, Joel needs to do a little better research.
ASCII art was already old in year 2000. Man you remind me of the days of dial up BBS
Very cool, liked the laser project a lot. mixing it up a little!
Dwarf Fortress is an old video game. If you've seen the Matrix code and understand how characters in the movie can see events happening in the world just by seeing the code, that is also how players of Dwarf Fortress "see" that game too. A deep rabbit hole indeed. Pun not intended. (Or was it?)
Also, ASCII was the precursor to ANSI and then Unicode which we now use today. ASCII is technically a subset of Unicode I think.
Not even a single mention of ASCII Doom / 1337d00m? I am disappointed :)
You should have had a side by side shot with the laser engraver and a ribbon paper dot matrix printer printing Joel.
Use the glowforge to make a 3-D puzzle print in place cutout and it would be cool
Ha! The _original_ Mini Joel (12:15). Great job man. Definitely want to see a green Mini Joel done in a slightly higher resolution ASCII to STL with only hexadecimal characters. Think 3D printing meets The Matrix.
OR... an orange Microbee logo with an ASCII to STL of a Microbee terminal.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBee
I have a suggestion for the laser engraved mini joel image, you could design a frame using a character extruded like & or @ or a combination or a few. did I explain that ok ?
Look at Luban3D it will do lithophanes on models. Lujie is a great small developer! Lithophanes for the win!
This is the 3D equivalent to running text back and forth in Google translate to see what ridiculousness comes out the other end. And I love it!
Yes, make a light box. They're not hard. I imagine you will find lots of uses for it in the future. Derek from Make Anything can probably give you some pointers. Maybe consider a collaboration?
Can I just thumbs up 100 for all the things?! You make this hobby so much more interesting if that's even possible. I love the cross platform ideas. Let tech design new ideas it's great!
Ooh I have a yellow 2!
hey Joel, this is awesome! your backdrop looks like it could use a giant channel banner! ;-)
Instead of a backlight, how about edge lighting Mini Joel and hanging it on the wall behind you... Engraved acrylic takes edge lighting really well.
Going back to the 90's... You HAVE to do a Mona Lisa!
it actually goes further back with telex/teletype, and military use back in the 60s, and further back.
there is tons of art on reddit like this but never seen it printed
Need to make display box🖐👍
Absolutely make all of the things!
That’s the nerdiest thing I’ve ever seen. I love it! ASCII art takes me way back…
The light box would be really cool also have you looked into Bo tech chat nozzles I have a 1.8mm one on my prusa (Sir Haribo)
Great idea and project but the name does not really tell what it is.
Can you 3d print a text picture of a ascii?
how do you get it to show stls that you upload?
I would like to see more litho art, specifically showing what can be done to improve it. Use photos of family members to motivate you to produce something you want to keep.
Designing a lite box would be cool.
Tried 3d printing an ASCII file once, ended up with a bunch of Alphagetti instead.
😂😂😂
I had a high school classmate that would do ASCII art on the school's teletype. Yes, I'm old. Lol.
Light box would be really cool
I'd love to see more Litho art on the channel, I've tried it once and it was lacking lol
Rick Astley would be cool
all the ideas! my glowforge is gonna be busy!
Yes yes yes please do lithophanes.
Also yes on the lightbox.
Omg, I thought the binary code you put in the video was the time code from futurama. I almost died LOLOL
Also, make a light box for it. Please, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE make it.
You forgot the "n" in "control" on the title card.😁 It was a fun goof!
Lithos rock please show us more oh magical being gifted to us from the 3D gods… 80085
Maybe a Lithophane window cover?
more lithophane for sure... how about how to use python/blender to create lithophanes? and share the script afterwards :)
I keep thinking, lamps.
wow definitely a blast from the past... of the dialup board days...
This is an amazing website as an ASCII appreciator, obviously the mini joel is the better one.
You could explore the lithophanes a little too.
Maybe it is possible with a super high resolution resin printer.
Light box-- YES!
Ascii is a cool remnant from the old ages with low memory and processing power, which is sadly in use even today and messes things up constantly 😅
Seems like you are missing ascii 110 in control.
This is technically super nerdy and I love it.
You should make another laser art of Dwayne Johnson's head. With a light box, of course.
Veramente eccezionale ragazzo 🔥 bel video interessante 🧞
You need to edge light the acrylic.
I used to run a BBS back in the day and some of the most popular ASCII files on my board were always the more... ahem... risque photos. It was AMAZING the detail you could get from just ASCII characters! and if you printed these out - on dot matrix printers with continuous feed paper, of course! - some of these images could span two or three sheets! Too mad you can't use those images here... or could you? lol :)
There was also a popular strip poker game floating around the C64/Apple 2 world back then.
Pre-internet we had to go to great lengths to see anything risque. ASCII ... 8,16 colors, didn't matter, it was vaguely the correct shape. lol, to be 14 again.
I like to see more of this.
Do the backlight box ,,,,,, and thanks for reminding me how old I really am lol
Can you in the future teach us how to convert 3d ultrasounds into baby models. I think this would be beneficial to a lot of us.
Light Box . For Sure!