[Taylorious]

This is pretty awesome. I'm surprised that you can get such a detailed and responsive image with just different characters. Very cool.

[userbinator]

YouTube did something like this a few years ago for April Fools. I think on a modern Retina-level display it would look even more impressive due to the higher resolution and smaller character-pixels.

Also reminds me of this: http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption

[mzs]

Forget about retina displays, imagine on a VT340* in glorious sixels!

https://github.com/saitoha/PySixel

*Or even xterm compiled with sixels support ;)