Image pasters

*See background images for instances of full resolution images in OWOT

Image pasters are automated tools that convert images into text so that they can be pasted onto the canvas. A variety of characters and methods can be used for this purpose, and scripters are continuously looking for ways to render images in higher resolutions.

As image pasters are often used for spam, the sharing of such scripts is strongly discouraged.

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Types of Image Pasters

Braille

One of the oldest and most easily accessible forms of image pasters, since image to braille converters are common on the internet. Braille images are generally black and white, but can achieve relatively high levels of resolution using a small amount of characters.

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

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  Some examples of braille images
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  A rare instance of colored braille images. It is unknown if these pictures were manually colored or generated using a specialized image paster.

ASCII

Images rendered entirely using keyboard characters, with characters of different heights and densities being used for shading. ASCII image pastes are among the lowest in resolution and are insufficient to portray more complex details.

Image to text converters are also easy to find on the internet, making them just as accessible as braille pasters.

• Examples of ASCII image pastes
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Full Block(Black and White)

Represents contrasts in color using the full block characters "░ ▒ ▓ █." This method is more common on YWOT.

Full Block(Color)

Using the full block "█," it is possible to render one color in each text cell. Two cells can also 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 introduction of customizable cell colors to the mainpage.

Example of a image rendered using full blocks

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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Quadrant

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Sextant

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  Image paste using uncolored sextants

SLC

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

Emoji

The only pasting method that can render colored images without the need for 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.

From YWOT

Other Methods

More unconventional image pasters, such as ones that combine multiple types of characters.

• An image paster by Waller Ameno that uses a variety of unicode and SLC
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• Black and white full block pastes that also use other symbols
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• An image paste which utilizes a mix of quadrants and triangle unicodes(Created by Caioz)
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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.

Moonrays' Image paster

Created in 2022. Comes with its own interface.

Scar32's Image Paster

Created by Scar32 in February 2023. Coded using Scratch.

An unconventional image paster that scans photos and renders them using SLC slopes.

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Crazy Cat Lady's Image Paster

to expand more upon it, yes it uses 2x4 octants. i want to try and increase the resolution further though and yea, this one adheres to the paste rate because it copies the image to your clipboard so you can paste it yourself, so no worries there

after being on owot for a week or two, i've seen quite a few basic image pasters used (either full unicode block or half-blocks), and i've been thinking basic ones might actually be worse for the site - since the converted images are lower resolution, users will want to paste them really big so the picture is discernible..

although my paster is more advanced, i think it would be less damaging because people wouldn't feel a need to paste such large images (and the conversion process is more complicated, so creating large images will take more time)

i could potentially add a sneaky throttle to make it more annoying to produce very large pastes, but personally i'd rather give out exactly what im using because that feels more fair

anyways, i get the concern of making any image paster easily accessible, so i won't post it unless that sounds okay with everyone!!

— CCL asking for permission to release her image paster to the public

A high quality image paster that renders pictures using octants.

The paster was mainly used to render photos of cats on the canvas, though on several occasions CCL also used it to post face reveals at Spawn.

CCL had planned to release the script to the community, though several users(including FP) advised her not to.

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Catha'vi's Image Paster

Created by Catha'Vi in August of 2025 for the primary purposes of pasting memes at Spawn.

The script can render images using both full blocks and octants, and allows users to customize the dimensions of image pastes.

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Miscellaneous

"Vibe coding makes an image paster."

• Various types of octant pasters
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  (Created by Caioz)
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Massive image pastes in /test, the largest of which is 19 coordinates tall and 38 coordinates wide.

Art created by modifying image pastes

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Text-based Video Players

Main article: Animated Scripts

Videos can be rendered onto the canvas in the same way as static images, though scripts that allow for this are much rarer.

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  Catha'Vi's movie night script rendered films using half blocks. It ran exclusively in a dedicated world, where the higher rate limit allowed footage to be played at a relatively smooth ~5 fps.
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  During September 2024, Mr. Black would use octants to render black and white videos in the Center Console. Frame rate was capped at 2 fps due to stricter rate limits at Spawn.
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  Another octant-based video player which rendered footage in full color, albeit at a much lower frame rate.