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moritzwarhierlast Friday at 7:58 AM1 replyview on HN

Always loved this example, what do you think of ASCII art vs SVG?

Since it's not a formal encoding of geometric shapes, it's fundamentally different I guess, but it shares some challenges with the SVG tasks I guess? Correlating phrases/concepts with an encoded visual representation, but without using imagegen, that is.

Do you think that "image encoding" is less useful?

It's a thing I love to try with various models for fun, too.

Talking about illustration-like content, neither text-based ASCII art nor abusing it for rasterization.

The results have been interesting, too, but I guess it's less predictable than SVG.


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simonwlast Friday at 12:16 PM

I've had disappointing results with ASCII art so far. Something I really like about SVG is that most models include comments, which give you an idea of what they were trying to do.

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