Type & code

ANSI blocks

Half-blocks with two inks per cell and a terminal palette.

ANSI blocks: a type & code effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open ANSI blocks in the studio

Controls

cell
Side of one half-block in source pixels. A terminal cell is two of them, one above the other
palette
Sixteen is the CGA inheritance the BBS scene was drawn in; 256 adds the xterm cube; full drops the limit and leaves the block grid
dither
Mixes an ordered threshold in before the colour is matched, so sixteen colours stop cutting gradients into slabs
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.

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