apehex/ascii-art

ASCII Art

Description

This is a text-to-image dataset, where the images are actually ASCII art.

The ASCII arts come from various sources:

• asciiart: made by independent artists, listed on asciiart.eu
• copypasta: common twitch emotes, listed on twitchquotes.com
• graffiti: text samples styled using various ASCII art fonts with a tool
• images: conversion of a portion of the dataset DataCompDR-12M using a tool

Metadata

• homepage: https://github.com/apehex/scrapscii
• version: 1.0.0

Config	Split	Size	Samples
'asciiart'	'train'	1.8 MB	5293
'copypasta'	'train'	488 KB	909
'graffiti'	'train'	25 MB	21504
'images'	'train'	315 MB	40960

Features

All the features of the dataset are textual:

datasets.Features({
    'caption': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),
    'content': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),
    'labels': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),
    'charsets': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),
    'chartypes': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),})

• caption:
  • a brief description of the "image"
  • for example "Undertale Sans full body"
  • can be empty
• content:
  • the actual ASCII art, in UTF-8 encoding
  • for example "(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ FLIP THAT TABLE.\r\n┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(°□°ヽ) FLIP THIS TABLE."
  • is never empty
• labels:
  • a list of tags, separated by commas
  • the set of tags depends on the dataset
  • for example "Cartoons,Smurfs"
  • can be empty
• charsets:
  • the Unicode sections of the characters in the AA
  • for example "Braille Patterns,ASCII C0"
  • "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" is renamed "ASCII C0"
  • "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" is renamed "ASCII C1"
  • is never empty
• chartypes:
  • the types of characters in the AA
  • for example "Punctuations,Others,Symbols,Letters"
  • is never empty