Ascii Street View. Ascii Street View Real-time Ascii Art conversion of Google Street View panorama's done in WebGL. You'll need Chrome, Firefox 8+, or another browser that supports CORS WebGL textures. Coded by @peter_nitsch. Inspired by Sol's TextFX library. Built with @thespite's Google Street View Panorama library, and three.js. Read about this at Teehan+Lax Labs. Map data ©2014 Google, ZENRIN Terms of Use Map Satellite. ASCII Google Street View. Digital text as art: 'Ascii Street View' and 'Painting with a digital brush' Peter Nitsch of Teehan+Lax has been experimenting with new ways of interacting with ASCII art that go well beyond static text images of narwhals.
His latest project combined a projector and a computer too allow the characters to "exist in physical space – with light and paint. " With the setup, an artist can paint on a wall and the physical white paint becomes a projected image of ASCII characters. While you probably won't be painting with ASCII with that yourself anytime soon, you can play with the technology behind it. To enable to new project, Nitsch needed to write new code with OpenGL, which just so happens to be a port away from WebGL. Painting with a Digital Brush.