Holmes at Reichenbach Falls ASCII Art

Sidney Paget's 1893 illustration The Death of Sherlock Holmes: Holmes and Professor Moriarty locked together on a narrow cliff path above the Reichenbach Falls, a hat falling into the spray

The tall plate becomes 83 rows. The two struggling figures sit in a dark # cluster in the upper middle, the falls keep a pale column of dots to their right, and the cliff on the left breaks into heavy # and * texture. It is a busy conversion; fewer columns flatten the figures into the rock. Illustration: Sidney Paget; ASCII conversion by this site.

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Original source: Wikimedia Commons reproduction of a historical published illustration. Evidence link Evidence: Exact file record and SHA-1 checked October 27, 2026 UTC. Downloaded unchanged: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Sherlock_Holmes_and_Professor_Moriarty_at_the_Reichenbach_Falls_-_Sidney_Paget.jpg.
File creator: Illustration: Sidney Paget (1860-1908), published with the caption "The Death of Sherlock Holmes" in Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem", The Strand Magazine, December 1893. Subjects: Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty. Scanned from the printed magazine. Evidence link Evidence: Illustrator, date and publication are taken from the exact Commons file record..
License or terms: Public-domain illustration and faithful two-dimensional reproduction. Evidence link Evidence: The illustration was published in December 1893 and Sidney Paget died in 1908, so it is out of copyright under any life-plus-70 or pre-1931 rule; the exact record is tagged PD-old-auto-1923, and the scan is a faithful two-dimensional reproduction. Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty are characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories; Doyle died in 1930 and these stories are public domain. No affiliation with or endorsement by the Conan Doyle Estate is implied. The exact file record lists no additional restrictions. Credits are retained voluntarily. Use as an educational conversion example implies no endorsement or affiliation; this does not clear later film, television or other adaptations of the same characters..
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Owner review: PENDING. The exact-file illustration evidence is documented for owner review; it does not clear later adaptations, 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

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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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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