Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.
From aardvarko <*RE...@geocities.com>
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· 14 Feb 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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>Please, take it to news:alt.binaries.clip-art, they _need_ it! It is way >off-topic for this group. Workingear, workingear... :) I had stopped getting alt.binaries.clip-art for a while because of hard disk space concerns, but I'll probably try it again. Sorry about the off-topic, but anything to enlighten another Usenetter... :] >Hehe, I did the same thing... And got it down to 11k Photoshop probably added some overhead... it tends to put in thumbnails and paths and lots of goobly gicky stuff. >(though I suspect >it would have been even smaller if it had been done correctly to begin >with). Yeah, probably. JPEG is a good format, but those artifacts are horrible. -- ._________________________________________________________________. | ._______. | | __ __ o \| Ant | | | / \/\/ \/ ; KRUNCH; | | \__/\/\__/\o | .*@., | | |. . . . . . . . . . . . . . /\ . ./\ rdv .@*. | \=/ | | | aka Turret __ __ |_______| | | ___ ____ ________/ / _____ _____/ /_____ | | / _ `/ _ `/ __/ _ /'|/ / _ `/ __/ '_/ _ \ | | \_,_/\_,_/_/ \_,_/|___/\_,_/_/ /_/\_\\___/ | | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/2672/index.html | |_________________________________________________________________| Veronica Karlsson wrote in message <34E...@on.spammer>... [snip] >Please, take it to news:alt.binaries.clip-art, they _need_ it! It is way >off-topic for this group. > >> On a side note, by taking your JPEG and converting it to a GIF, it went >> down to 15,487 bytes file size. :) That's a lot off 95K. If GeoCities >> lets me upload it, you can get the GIFed version at >> >> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/2672/barn.gif >> > >Hehe, I did the same thing... And got it down to 11k (though I suspect >it would have been even smaller if it had been done correctly to begin >with). > >http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/rubbish/NOT_ascii_6.gif [snip]
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