DOT to ASCII Art Online

ASCII art diagrams have a long history in software documentation — from Unix manual pages to RFC diagrams to kernel comments. They work in any terminal, any text editor, and any version control diff. A DOT-to-ASCII converter lets you use Graphviz's expressive graph description language to generate these diagrams without writing the ASCII by hand.

Paste any digraph or graph block and the tool renders it as a box-and-line ASCII diagram. Directed graphs use arrows (> v ^ <) to show edge direction; undirected graphs use plain lines. Edge labels are placed near the midpoint of each edge.

The three layout engines offer different visual results: "dot" produces clean top-down hierarchies ideal for dependency trees and flowcharts, while "neato" and "fdp" use spring-force algorithms that cluster connected nodes and work well for network topology diagrams.