created 2025-03-27, & modified, =this.modified

tags:y2025graphicsart

Text-based semigraphics, pseudographics, or character graphics is a primitive method used in early text mode video hardware to emulate raster graphics without having to implement the logic for such a display mode.

There are two methods, create block graphics or to use instead glyphs (letters and figures) that appear as if drawn in raster graphics mode.