Making pictures on your computer with symbols?

How do you do pictures with your computer, like what is that called. Example, if you wanted to do a flower, you would do this,





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Just say thats a flower and leaf, i dont know, but it looks like that, any picture! Thanks if you understand what im saying!!

Making pictures on your computer with symbols?
ascii art, though they work better in webpages and blogs that use center html tag.


http://www.chris.com/ascii_art_menu.html





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