Image pasters

By Guest-1052

*See Displaying Images in OWOT for instances of full resolution images in OWOT

An image paster is an automated tool to paste images onto the OWOT canvas.

Image pasters are often used for spam, and the sharing of such scripts have been compared to handing out nuclear launch codes.

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  Photorealistic image pastes from /bcolor that make use of the ability to change cell background colors.
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  Image paster by CCL(Colors disabled)

Types of Image Pasters

Braille

The oldest and most easily accessible form of image pasters, since image to braille converters are common on the internet. Braille images are generally black and white.

Braille pasters are the primary form of image pasters in OWOT's sister website Your World of Text.

Some examples of braille images

Full Block

Using the full block "█" it is possible to render one color in each text cell. Two cells can then be combined to form a square pixel.

Full block pasters used to be the primary form of image pasters in OWOT, but have grown out of fashion ever since November 2024, when a variety of higher resolution methods were made possible by the enabling of customizable cell background colors in the mainpage.

Half Block

By using the half block symbols "▀" and "▄," it is possible to divide each text cell into two pixels of different colors, with one color being the half block itself and the other being the cell background color.

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Octant

Using octant characters, it is possible to divide each text cell into eight pixels, though only two colors can be present in any given cell. Octants allow for higher resolution images than half blocks, though the two color limitation means that some amount of distortion will be visible at smaller scales.

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SLC

Images can also be rendered using Symbols for Legacy Computing, giving them a blurry but stylistic appearance.

Emoji Pasters

The only pasting method that does not require text colors.

Emoji-based image pasters are more common in YWOT, where they are the only way to render multi-colored images on the canvas.

Other Methods

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Notable Image Pasters

PinkiePie's Image Paster

Back in ~2022, notorious user PinkiePie created an especially powerful image paster that could not be disabled due to it being a chrome extension rather than a regular script.

The paster had several other unique features, such as pasting all characters instantly, being able to paste around protected areas(whereas other pasters would stop the moment they touch an uneditable tile), and allowing the user to perform other actions with their cursor while the paste is in progress.

PinkiePie used this tool primarily for the purpose of spamming MLP porn at spawn.

Miscellaneous

"Vibe coding makes an image paster."