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I Tried Turning Games Into Text

Acerola

I Tried Turning Games Into Text

Acerola explores building a shader that turns games into ASCII art, walking through techniques such as brightness mapping and edge detection to see whether it looks good.

Pointed to as a nice overview of implementing ASCII rendering as a post-processing shader.

4 Hacker News mentions · 2024–2026

Topics

  • Computer graphics & rendering
  • Creative coding & generative art

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