Create and explore cellular automata in ASCII. Design custom rulesets, watch characters evolve into mesmerizing patterns, and generate unique textmode art in your browser.

A curated list of awesome textmode resources. Contribute to humanbydefinition/awesome-textmode development by creating an account on GitHub.

A classic Commodore 64 one-liner that builds a maze one character at a time.

Someone paid four figures for this on mainnet.

Convert images, GIFs, and videos into ASCII and textmode art privately in your browser. Customize and export in nine formats.

A Lissajous-curve entity floating around water, causing wave displacement.

seeing my ingredients constantly appear in your work over the years is really painful, honestly.

wtf

Select any visible canvas or video. Render it live as ASCII. Tune the signal. Export the frame.

textmode.js is a lightweight creative coding library for creating real-time ASCII art on the web.

Draw textmode art together in real time with Unicode glyphs, shared weekly event canvases, custom bitmap fonts, live chat, gallery archives, and community statistics.