programming is my art

One thing I am really good in is programming.
Painting isn't really the art I have special skills in. So I tried to combine these both.

I wrote a program that reads an image and convert it brightness into characters. That is the result so far:

the card i recently posted

when you zoom in, you see this picture only contains characters

There are still much more possibilities out there how I can make art with programs. I'm looking forward to create a application that paints a image with random stuff (e.g. look at a media player when you listen to a song -> visualizer).