https://cambboyle.me/notes Notes on what I'm building and learning. https://cambboyle.me/notes/drawing-a-pagoda-in-characters https://cambboyle.me/notes/drawing-a-pagoda-in-characters Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The picture on the home page is a photo shrunk to a grid of 150 by 116 characters. Each cell gets a character from its brightness, or a line character where there is an edge, and a colour from the photo. A script does that once ahead of time and saves the result. The browser only redraws it and adds the movement.