"This Vista de Valencia, composed of 5031 individual pieces of type, has a distinctly digital quality to it.
It's made almost 100 years before the advent of ASCII art, but the image's construction, the trees in particular, bear an uncanny resemblance to the semigraphic style of Commodore PETSCII art."
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Also via @waxy