In a perfect world, everything is generated from ASCII diagram sources: https://github.com/sigvef/sigvehtml .
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Oh, this is amazing.
I wondered how it figured out to use the elephant JPEG from the ASCII art. Well:
def educated_guess_at_image():
return 'http://pensivetoaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/elephant-banner.jpg'
Very xkcd 221.
I guess one could train a Convolutional Neural Network to convert the ASCII art to an actual image. Something like this, but for ASCII: http://sketchy.eye.gatech.edu/
Wow, that works surprisingly well. I drew a terrible cat face, and it managed to get it dead on.
Source: http://xkcd.com/221/
Wow man, sigvehtml is actually used in production!
Source: https://github.com/sigvef/arktis/blob/master/index.sigvehtml
Rendered website: http://arkt.is/
Would make scraping so much easier!