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The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

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by panic • 12 days ago

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dang• 10 days ago

Recent and related:

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550569 - June 2026 (28 comments)

california-og• 9 days ago

Author here, thanks for sharing the essay & archive!

gwern• 9 days ago

Very nice. May I make a suggestion? Add a metadata field for the use of red (ie. rubrication https://gwern.net/red ), which is a core technique of this kind of printing, I think, but not typically noted.

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