OT: ASCII art generator
From Corvus <aut...@cybertrench.com>
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· 23 Oct 2005 17:04 · View full thread
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Now I know, the real ascii artist does it by hand, so this might be slightly off topic ;) A side product of a project I did (http://motiontrack.sf.net) is a pattern detection based ascii art generator Now its much slower than aalib, but doe to the pattern matching approach, it IMHO produces better output with line art (white on black) graphic sources Here is a raven - produced by masciiart after running it on a filtered drawing the origin picture has been taken from http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/bird/raven.php (raven1.gif) steps to reproduce: 1. blow the image up to a reasonable size for ascii art > mresize raven1.gif raven2.png -v 400 2. remove the size change artefacts > mblur raven2.png raven3.png 3. outline the image > menhance raven3.png raven4.png -s 150 4. search for patterns and translate them to ascii chars > masciiart raven4.png _ , #_ "A d , `A P[ I[ W[ ]] t] EL [ ,l u]. M[ _ w_ | ]1 #Mtpf '_0 `^,| M ,c!+Hm[Im KJM' I # .[|#^ U] `+ ! U B',' !'b ' , ` 'd'_[,f.wUW U~ , `U[,@jH&WO 5L j"m.' -_!jLi`/ (q Im , L/W0}' f'' ' [` . ' ^/f" / wc 4 ' _f a , "' 0, U "r , r~ _L a@l ,nw h_` . ,_ nBf , .L..O5" |,_ ., K' J' ' _wz[ /TYk/ ^[ j5T'"QN ' n e ' 5'dL#D/ ' juf~ _Dz_=. ,w-~~E\4jLJ'` ,46e _ |0M\ ^9 j /"'_, enef#r! ^_J7"' /C^ ' ,' [ JW75MC_Z1,^r' " "' ,,zRZ2zn_ ].'' sew M#VR_"z^' , ,/' _,wA"0M!4""APM ~'e 4#m __### d@|~ X' _nxgW "{ sw / | ,w,ee]D"M~ "'_ \ ,zD\~~~ ___mwJpo 4 _____Jm"~~~ . ~ ~ ,_wnA#0UC`/~~ __nl ,d~ . ' ~?#pr^~~~ ._BM#W+' _w~7T . _' , __j_,"N9 *4M'_L _gQ~ , *,*m\ ~. ' ,aqJMc~ "` /m#' jy##-*w "'.I#p _ `__ _____,##M' `~ ]i_' "f q ~, " ~\VQ#MQ#UUjP!~7L _mHT' + .,, , +w, _____pjUM@ ,#WJ"#ip, / _ g !_ `W p_ ^"MY*M4M~ M"~ ~mdX'_` \ ' ' , ^W\ __ gd#0_ -_ `+qq,_+ ___j 7' ,t_J_ '^'' | ~w___ ~vgj_a~"#M#9M' _/ ` `' '\w+'w,\, _f ~\W~\d_M2b`Dml ,' _ ~`-- _~ "*mj/ ~~"~' _/ `_ ~ ,, ,._.e| f ' ; __ *" 4py/ f' , ~~j, ' . ~ ' . . y,] | , : . - QW ##, g #qjMqAndA [ , _ .. J J##Lj#WEj#"qMWL4' f, '_ m -+_ ' t H' "" ` ""'` "'"' N ,I , _^ |; _` ' 4Mn4! |Q "qW~ [Y `. j .[ f+ l jm | ' ` j' f ' l C2' ] ` ' l i " P' ,'| ` " `, QP ,/' , , ' 1 ! / _,m^_ ' ' . ,7 a0m*5M~ A' | . \. + _m"' 41] _..e"_.w [ e-' `---^"',< i \`.| / e _ q@|9TR' .s"'./9' r9 |.Ii`` " `" ' J',^ | jT@' s ^,^ [ '|7 |k^ '' ' < with more optimized filter settings the result could likely be even better ;) greetings Corvus Corax
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