Checkout acerola on youtube, he has a video on that, that leads me to belive its hand made.

If that’s the case, I’d still be impressed that someone could have programmed that

There were / are a myriad of tools to draw and convert to ascii art that were popularized on the Japanese internet.

I’d imagine this was done in a tool like that.

That is what I am thinking. Looking at the larger perspective snowball–flakes, there are 4-5 variations of the same 90° arc going from bottom to middle rjght. I don’t think there are that many of the same arcs at slightly different radii (radiuses?) in ASCII but I could be wrong. Or it could be the low res.

I’m willing to bet it’s hand made. To make sure those lines are exactly what can be represented with ASCII characters, you might as well do it by hand. If it were rendered to ASCII from a drawing you’d likely get tons of artifacts from that process. This is too clean.

Could be, but this type of ASCII art usually is hand-made. Diagonal lines are hard and look off, easily