Making art with text

My latest experiments have been with online tools for creating art from text. This picture was made using an ascii art generator at http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/

It was made with a photograph of a cat. I was not really happy with this. Next I tried some different options at http://www.text-image.com/convert/. I decided to see what it would do with the same image.
Here is the ascii version:



This website also has a version that looks like the text from the movie "Matrix". Here's a picture of the same cat using that version:



And finally an html version:

I like the html version the best, because it looks like most a cat. I don't think I'd really want to make many pictures out of these programs. The ascii pictures generated with this don't look like ascii art to me. Maybe these programs are capable of something else that I just didn't think to try, but my idea of ascii art is more like that on the website Chris.com.