Made this many years ago in the usenet days. It took a little work to figure out how to get the words to pop cleanly.
A group for fans, collectors, and creators of ASCII art.
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII). The term is also loosely used to refer to text-based visual art in general. ASCII art can be created with any text editor, and is often used with free-form languages. Most examples of ASCII art require a fixed-width font (non-proportional fonts, as on a traditional typewriter) such as Courier for presentation.
Yes. The key thing is to find words that meet a very specific rule. You need a word that you can add a letter to the front and get a valid word. And it also needs to be a word where you can add a letter to the end and still have a valid word. For example "rat" can become "brat" and "rats".
Depending on the size of the finished piece you are probably only going to be able to get two to four words of 3d text per line. Place the "brat" and "rats" word on either side of it.
The text that is going to pop needs to repeat across the whole line of text. Use the example here to figure out how many times. Put the buffer words on each side of each repeat
Work on just the popping text first. Figure out what spacing of repeats works best. Then add the lorem lpsum junk text equivalent to fill in the blanks. That should get you started.