Collection of useful text art tools

Per Boing Boing, a new curated collection showcases how far text art has evolved beyond ASCII art. Heikki Lotvonen assembled websites and applications for creating text-based graphics and animations: PabloDraw for RIPScrip editing, Telepaint for Teletext animation, and Textual Paint, a terminal version of Microsoft Paint, among many others. The collection offers a surprisingly rich toolkit for anyone interested in creating art through text.

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