Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this. One of the ...

In case you grow tired of clear-written, understandable code, obfuscation contests provide a nice change of scenery, and trying to make sense of their entries can be a fun-time activity and an ...

Peter Nitsch of Teehan+Lax has been experimenting with new ways of interacting with ASCII art that go well beyond static text images. His latest project combined a projector and a computer too allow ...

A Twitter user has uncovered a trick to turn some Facebook or Instagram photos into nostalgic works of text-art. Mathias Bynens, a ‘web standards fanatic’ according to his profile, recently revealed ...

The folks behind Facebook's image upload software are revealed to have been translating images into ASCII art automatically. While we're not certain how web standards enthusiast Mathias Bynens ...

When I was a student (circa the late 1970s) and when I started out as an engineer (circa the early 1980s), the printers we used were dot-matrix or line printers of the continuous feed variety. The way ...

As Polaroid cameras make a serious comeback, popular apps like Instagram exchange clarity and focus with filters that give photographs a vintage feel. “[The app converts] the pic to grayscale, and ...