As I was scrolling through Twitter one evening, I stumbled across an image that caught my eye. It turned out to be Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I), a piece created in 1966 by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon at Bell Labs. One of the earliest examples of computer-generated art, it used text-like symbols to form a grayscale image.
This project recreates that effect using JavaScript, converting images into ASCII in real-time while preserving as much detail as possible.
See the original Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I) here.