Periodic Table of the ASCII Characters

I've been on a bit of a PostScript kick lately, creating digital things just for the sake of it, rather than to achieve some other purpose.

I'd been thinking for a little while about creating an ASCII chart, perhaps something with the chars in a 3D grid, perhaps indicating their status w.r.t the C isprint(), isdigit(), etc, functions.

But then I thought of my original Periodic Table of Keys and my recent digital version.

I'm not sure what's up with all the Periodic Tables. It's not like I enjoyed chemistry back in school, far from it. That Periodic Table shape is iconic though, and I seem to enjoy playing with it.

So, the table is a re-interpretation of the traditional one. It shows the character, it's name and value in decimal, hex and binary. Also it's escape char and control char. The colours don't relate to the C character classification functions directly (apart from anything else, they overlap) but they do break the table up.

 

A PDF (with a colour and monochrome version) is available here, if anyone's interested.

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