Napoleon Crossing the Alps ASCII Art

Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps, the 1801 Malmaison version: Bonaparte in an orange cloak and bicorne points ahead while his white and black horse rears on a rocky Alpine slope, with names carved into the rocks below

The stormy sky fills the top third with + and =. Bonaparte, his cloak and the horse's head and mane form the densest % and @ cluster in the middle, and the pale body of the rearing horse shows as a patch of : and . below it. The rocks at the bottom return to dense # and %; the names carved into them are too small to read at 100 columns. Painting: Jacques-Louis David; ASCII conversion by this site.

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Original source: Wikimedia Commons reproduction of a historical portrait painting. Evidence link Evidence: Exact file record and SHA-1 checked October 28, 2026 UTC. Downloaded unchanged: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/David_-_Napoleon_crossing_the_Alps_-_Malmaison2.jpg.
File creator: Oil painting: Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), signed L. DAVID YEAR IX (1801), the first of his five versions; Musée national du Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, M.M.49.7.1. A digital reproduction, not new artwork. Evidence link Evidence: Creator, date and source are taken from the exact Commons file record; the subject is not the copyright owner of the portrait..
License or terms: Public-domain painting and faithful two-dimensional reproduction. Evidence link Evidence: The painting dates from 1801 and Jacques-Louis David died in 1825, so the underlying work is out of copyright under any life-plus-70 or pre-1931 rule. The exact record is tagged PD-Art and PD-old-100-expired, and the file is a faithful two-dimensional reproduction. No affiliation with or endorsement by the museum is implied. The exact file record lists no additional restrictions. Credits are retained voluntarily. Use as an educational conversion example implies no endorsement by the subject, estate, photographer, institution or employer; this does not clear other portraits of the same person..
Preparation: The bundled file is the unchanged Commons original. Sharp applies orientation and sRGB/Lanczos3 sampling for thumbnails and the 100-column Standard preview. The ASCII is a lossy conversion by this site; no image regions are reconstructed. Evidence: scripts/build-example-previews.cjs; exact source and sampled-raster SHA-256 hashes in lib/generated/example-previews.json.

Owner review: PENDING. The exact-file portrait evidence is documented for owner review; it does not clear unrelated portraits, merchandise, or uses implying endorsement or affiliation.

Standard ASCII

Standard ASCII Art: 100 columns; rows = max(1, round(columns × source height / source width × 0.55)).

Character ramp: @%#*+=-:. (including a final space).

Brightness 100%, contrast 100%, saturation 100%, hue 0, sepia 0%, inversion off. Dithering: none.

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Edge detection

Edge Detection Only: 100 columns; rows = max(1, round(columns × source height / source width × 0.55)).

Edge Intensity: 1. Uses directional Unicode lines, not the selected character ramp.

Brightness 100%, contrast 100%, saturation 100%, hue 0, sepia 0%, inversion off. Dithering does not apply to this mode.

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Character Optimization matches local glyph shapes in 4x8 cells at 8 px monospace. Compare texture with Standard; it is not a universal quality improvement, and your display font does not change the matching font.

Character Optimization

Character Optimization: 100 columns; rows = max(1, round(columns × source height / source width × 0.55)).

Character ramp: @%#*+=-:. (including a final space).

Brightness 100%, contrast 100%, saturation 100%, hue 0, sepia 0%, inversion off. Dithering: none.

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Mosaic comparisons use 15 symbol columns, not the 100 columns of the character modes. The detailed recipe increases contrast to 150%; choose Coarse mosaic in the editor for the original five-column style.

Detailed emoji mosaic

Emoji Mosaic: sampling width 60, Emoji Size 4, squares set, transparent-cell symbol "⬜". Final columns = ceil(width / Emoji Size); rows depend on source aspect ratio.

Brightness 100%, contrast 150%, saturation 100%, hue 0, sepia 0%, inversion off. Dithering does not apply to this mode.

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