title: ASCII "graphics" library?
body: <p>Is there a platform-independent C/C++ library that can draw simple "graphics" in pure ASCII in a console program? For example (VERY roughly) I could call a function in the library like <code>rectangle(3, 6);</code> to get the following output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>******
  *    *
  ******
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Ultimately, I would love to be able to plot simple graphs based on input data tables like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>|
  |*
  |
  |  *
  |     *
  |         *
  |                *
  |                           *
  +---------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And does anyone know if there is a way to specifically render data plots/graphs in ASCII or UTF8?</p>