Rodin's The Thinker ASCII Art

AndrewHorne's photograph of Rodin's bronze sculpture at the Musee Rodin: a seated figure leans forward with chin resting on one hand, against blue sky

Rodin's The Thinker: follow the bowed head, hand beneath the chin and diagonal forearm before the bent legs. Bronze highlights become small light patches at 100 columns; the sky, tree and building remain part of the photograph. The bundled source already has the photographer's color adjustments. Photograph: AndrewHorne; ASCII conversion by this site.

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Source and reuse rights: documented; owner review pending

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Original source: Wikimedia Commons photograph of a sculpture, not a faithful two-dimensional reproduction. Evidence link Evidence: Exact file record checked October 26, 2026 UTC. Downloaded unchanged: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/The_Thinker%2C_Rodin.jpg.
File creator: Sculpture: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Photograph: AndrewHorne. Evidence link Evidence: The exact Commons file record identifies the photograph and its author separately from the sculpture..
License or terms: Public-domain sculpture; the photograph was separately released into the public domain by its photographer. Evidence link Evidence: Rodin died in 1917, more than 100 years ago. The Musee Rodin dates this enlarged bronze to a 1904 Alexis Rudier cast and records the work's individual exhibition in 1888: https://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/musee/collections/oeuvres/thinker . The underlying sculpture predates 1931 and is out of copyright; this is not a later sculptor's adaptation. The exact photo record contains the photographer's worldwide public-domain release, with an unconditional any-purpose permission fallback where a public-domain release is not legally possible. Credits are retained voluntarily. The photo release is not used as evidence for the underlying sculpture's status. No museum or photographer endorsement is implied..
Preparation: The bundled JPEG is the unchanged Commons original, including its existing framing and color adjustments. Sharp applies orientation and sRGB/Lanczos3 sampling for thumbnails and the 100-column Standard preview. The ASCII is a lossy conversion by this site, not a museum-supplied rendering; 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 photograph release and separate underlying-work basis are documented for owner review; this does not clear unrelated photos, later sculptures or promotional uses implying endorsement.

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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