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ANSI art

noun

Etymology

ANSI + art. So called because of the use of the ANSI text terminal display standard (ANSI X3.64), from the American National Standards Institute.

  1. derived from artem
  2. derived from art
  3. inherited from art
  4. compounded as ansi art — “ANSI + art”

Definitions

  1. A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150…

    A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150 Personal Computer's (IBM PC) Disk Operating System (DOS), and control codes, which allowed for limited color, graphic block characters, limited sound, limited animation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ANSI art. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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