Re: Graphics to ASCII
From S. Oversteegen <leg...@caihwk.nl>
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· 18 May 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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Veronica Karlsson wrote in message <374...@earthling.net>... >Jorge F. Hung wrote: >> Veronica Karlsson wrote: >> > Jorge F. Hung wrote: >> I'm new to this kind of art, and I thought that it'll be nice to have a >> program that will generate the patterns from another graphic format. >> > >One of the best ways to sort-of-automate the process is to take a clear >plastic bag (or OH philm) and draw the picture on that. Then you take >the bag and tape it to your monitor and then you know roughly where to >put the characters to get the rough shapes of the image. It sounds >silly but it works. :-) It isn't silly, in the old days i used to draw 'normal' pictures on my MSX (home computer) with this method. I took a a piece of very thin paper and draw outline. I worked fine. Later on i tried this on ascii art, but it's a little harder, but it works good enough for a rough sketch. -S.Oversteegen leg...@caihwk.nl
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