Show HN: Asciilator.com

https://www.asciilator.com/

24•4m1rk•8mo ago

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4m1rk•8mo ago

Created using FastAPI and HTMX.

Ayushmishra23•8mo ago

cool

Simorgh•8mo ago

Is it using a model to generate the ASCII art?

It’s quite clever.

4m1rk•8mo ago

It's gpt-4.1

Simorgh•8mo 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.

mysterydip•8mo ago

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

4m1rk•8mo ago

Yeah, it sometimes doesn't feel like it. I tried different prompts but it's not that smart at generating ascii art.

cadamsdotcom•8mo 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 :)

4m1rk•8mo ago

I like that! Though it's not very smart or consistent at creating ascii art.

dmd•8mo 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.

4m1rk•8mo ago

Even the UI is created by AI :bushes:

dwaltrip•8mo ago

But you didn't, and they did :)

It made me smile, I'm glad they built it.

dmd•8mo 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.

dwaltrip•8mo ago

Object: pizza pie

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

A flying house?? Very curious!

4m1rk•8mo ago

It was too excited ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

shibeprime•8mo ago

Lmao, its so random.

ASCII Art for "bambi":

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

/ \

4m1rk•8mo ago

I'm curious too. Should've make it explain why it generated what generated and as a note :D

b0dhimind•8mo ago

       ___
     _/   \_
    /       \
   |         |
   |         |
   |         |
    \_______/
      /   \
     /     \
    /       \
   /         \
  /           \
  |   ___     |
  |  (___)    |
  |           |
   \         /
    \_______/

1024kb•8mo 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.

voidofpasswords•8mo ago

tried with `goldfish`

           _.-=-._       
        .-`  '---`  '-.   
      /      .-"-.     \  
     |     /  _  \     |  
      \    \ (_) /    /   
       '-._ '-=-'_.-'     
            '---'

im not sure what this is

lunaps•8mo ago

Haha it's so much fun to play around

lunaps•8mo ago

please tell me what this is:

      w  c( .. )o    
       \__(  - )    
             /\       
           /(_|_)\   
          w  / |     
             | |