Re: Ascii-art resizer!
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 15 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:39:31 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: >.----- On Sun, 09 Aug 1998 11:31:09 GMT, miK posted: >| >|>Ok, prolly not the best examples. The best way might be for the program to >|>turn the ASCII artwork into a bitmap (perhaps, just a dump of the font >|>shapes and such so that the bitmap looks identical to the ASCII version), >|>re-scale the bitmap using the various averaging and anti-aliasing techniques >|>people use, and then converted back to an ASCII. >| >|>The conversion back to ASCII would be the hardest I guess. Perhaps such a >|>program could create a directly scaled version as in your original, and >|>create an ASCII-to-bitmap-to-ASCII version, and somehow use the first as >|>sort of a "layout" map.. >| >|Now, that's a curious detour... >| >'--------------------- > >I made a resizer for solid style asciis (although at present it only does 50% >reduction) that turns the ascii into a picture (the was ASC2PIC does) and then >resamples (er, probably) to 50%. It then does a kinda GIFscii operation on it >and creates a really weird resize of the pic. MARTIN: Please reduce your line width from 80 down to 76 coloumns or less! Your resizer RESIZE.EXE is actually very good especially with those very big ascii GIF style pics like the nudes because it squeezes them down. It squeezes them a little too much so that they get a slightly squashed look . Bye,
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