Re: Ascii-art resizer!
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
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· 31 Jul 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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sTiLe <sti...@mindless.com> wrote: >I needed to slim down an ascii-art I got somewhere so that I could use it, >because it was 27 lines. I'm not too good with ascii-art, so I just wrote >a program to scale down (or up) an ascii-art... example: > ooo$$$$$$$$$$$$oooo > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o o$ $$ o$ > o $ oo o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o $$ $$ $$o$ > oo $ $ "$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$o $$$o$$o$ > "$$$$$$o$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$o $$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ """$$$ > "$$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$ > $$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$o > o$$" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$o > $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$""$$$$$$ooooo$$$$o > o$$$oooo$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$"$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$"""""""" > """" $$$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$$ > "$$$o """$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$"$$" $$$ > $$$o "$$""$$$$$$"""" o$$$ > $$$$o oo o$$$" > "$$$$o o$$$$$$o"$$$$o o$$$$ > "$$$$$oo ""$$$$o$$$$$o o$$$$"" > ""$$$$$oooo "$$$o$$$$$$$$$""" > ""$$$$$$$oo $$$$$$$$$$ > """"$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$$$" > "$$$"""" >when shrunken to 75% becomes: > o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$ $ o$ >oo$ $"$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$o$o$ >"$$$$o$ o$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$o $$$$$$ > $$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > "$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$ > $$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$o > o$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ > $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$$oooo$$$o > $$$$$$"$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$"""""" > """ $$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$ > "$$o ""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" $$$ > $$o oo o$$" > "$$$o o$$$$o"$$$o o$$$ > "$$$$ooo $$$o$$$$$$""" > ""$$$$$o $$$$$$$$ > """$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$ > "$$""" >Neat, eh? it works like an image scaler, though, so you don't gain detail >as you increase size, and as you decrease size you lose some of the >letters. >Dos: >http://www.bignet.net/~thekid39/resize.exe >Unix (C source): >http://www.bignet.net/~thekid39/resize.c >to run: >resize percent < input file > output file Neat indeed, thanks, that is a brilliant little proggie and it works well. I have written myself a little batch file, and named it SIZE.BAT, to save me typing the command line when I want to use your resize prog: ----------------------------------------------------------- SIZE.BAT : Uses the program resize.exe written by sti...@mindless.com : %1 is the required new percentage size of the picture : %2 is the name of the input file to be resized : %2.%1 is the name of the resized output file produced resize %1 < %2 > %2.%1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Worked like a charm on NEUMAN just recently posted: Original NEUMAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .M .:AWMMM: .:AMMMMMHIIIHMMM. .... .AMMMMMMMMMMMHHHMHHMMMML:AMF" .:MMMMMLAMMMMMMMHMMMMMMHHIHHIIIHMMMML. "WMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMH:::::HMMMMMMHII:. .AMMMMMMMHHHMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHMMMMMMMMMAMMMHHHHL. .MMMMMMMMMMHHMMMMMMMMHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMHTWMHHHHHML .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHHHHHMHMMHHHHIII:::HMHHHHMM. .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHHMHHHHHHIIIIIIIIHMHHHHHM. 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"HHHHHHL MMMMM . HHH MMMMM. ,WMML . . HHH. :MMMM. " W. AM' " . HMM MMM: M"T I. .:M- HHH T:IIMI: '".H:. .:,, HMH L:WINH::.. :. . .. ' M'..I MIM' HI:.. MH :: .:. '''HM.I "MHTIH:::W" "T9' " ''I:...' 'HII HI:HI:IW . HHHIH"HW" MH:' H,,,,.,,...: ':H"W MH. ."MMM,MHMF IM MML ."MMMM . .HF HHHM. .HF HHHITL. .:.. HHHHMMM".... HHHH..... HI..... H.... LRDE EMN NEUMAN.30 ~~~~~~~~~ AMIH. MMMMMM:HMM: MMMMMMMHHHHIIHHH MMMMMMHMMMLHMHHHH "MMM WH"HL MMM. AML . HH MM . ;AL. : HH :IM: "H. .., 'MH LM H:. ML ::.. .HMI YIIH:. . . . 'I.'H"H H' H,,.,.."': W MM .MMM M HHT. '. HHMM".. HI... .. H M R ? I think Bob Allison (Scarecrow) in 1993 use to have access to a utility that did picture size reductions. Do you have a good C Compiler? I have C source code for a proggie that rotates ASCII pictures through 90 degree positions but I cannot cannot get it compiled into an MS-DOS *.EXE executable file. Regards,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4f3887953fc2ae64 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> Subject: Re: Ascii-art resizer! Date: 1998/07/31 Message-ID: <901...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Deja-AN: 376625991 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980731014127.986A-100000@localhost> Organization: Southern InterNet Services User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.4 (sun4m)) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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