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Re:ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII r... by minimaxir on Saturday January 17, 2026 @06:41PM (#46663293)
Update: I tested a port of the OP's methodology using Claude Code/Claude Opus 4.5 with some specific performance optimizations, and per the benchmarks, converting a 1024x1024 image to ASCII takes 16 microseconds. I suspect that will decrease after some more polish/iteration but that's enough for potentially real-time generation even on mobile hardware.
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Re:ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII r... by BobbyTables2 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @10:50PM (#46664640)
That doesn’t seem right.

Surely you mean 16 milliseconds ?

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Re:ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII r... by minimaxir on Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:01PM (#46664682)
Benchmark says 15.654 µs. Rendering the text as a 1024x1024 image is 2.8737 ms.

However, the ASCII output quality is nondiverse despite using the same technique, so will need to do significantly more testing and this likely won't be released soon.

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