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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Jun 1998.
Re: Ascii art program

Re: Ascii art program

Vasilis Antoniadis <ba6...@blake.sunderland.ac.uk> wrote:

>I am kind of new in this Ascii art thing. I found an interesting
>programm which converts greyscale gif to ascii art .txt's. the programm
>is called asciiart.com or .exe. try a search engine. Does enyone know
>another programm which does this work?

ASCGIF.EXE and GIFSCI.EXE are both the same program with a different
name. Both reject 89a type GIFs and will only convert 87a GIFs.

In my opinion they make horrid conversions of GIFs like this one of the
NZ Flag:

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Ascgif Ver 1.9
Signature = "GIF87a", Width = 326, Height = 170
Global colour map contains 256 entries.
Image #1 encountered.
Xpos from 0 to 325, Ypos from 0 to 169, not interlaced.

Ascgif19 (vi)ew (fF)ocus (zZ)oom (c)opy (l,r,u,d)=PAN (q)uit (h)elp:

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WW+WWW;;;W++W;;;W++WW::;;:;;;:::;;:::;;;W
W;;::W+WWW++W+WWW;;;;;;;:;;:::W;:;:;;:;;W
W++++++++++++++++++++;:;:;:;;W:;::::::::W
W;;;WWW+WW++WWW+VW;;;;::;;:;::;::WWW:;:;W
WWV+W;;;:W++W:::;WWW+;;::+W;:;;:;;;:::;:W
W;;;:;;::;::;::;::;;:::::;:::;;:;::;::;;W
W;;;;;;;::::::::::;:;::;:;;:::;:;;:::;:;W
W;;;;;;:;;:;:::::;::;;;:::;;WW+W;:;;:;;;W
W;;:;;;:;;;:::::;:;::::;:;:;;;:;;;;:::;;W
W;;;;;;;:;;;::;;;;:;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;W

Ascgif19 (vi)ew (fF)ocus (zZ)oom (c)opy (l,r,u,d)=PAN (q)uit (h)elp:

.........................................
..V...RRR.VV.RRR.VV..BBRRBRRRBBBRRBBBRRR.
.RRBB.V...VV.V...RRRRRRRBRRBBB.RBRBRRBRR.
.VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVRBRBRBRR.BRBBBBBBBB.
.RRR...V..VV...V+.RRRRBBRRBRBBRBB...BRBR.
..+V.RRRB.VV.BBBR...VRRBBV.RBRRBRRRBBBRB.
.RRRBRRBBRBBRBBRBBRRBBBBBRBBBRRBRBBRBBRR.
.RRRRRRRBBBBBBBBBBRBRBBRBRRBBBRBRRBBBRBR.
.RRRRRRBRRBRBBBBBRBBRRRBBBRR..V.RBRRBRRR.
.RRBRRRBRRRBBBBBRBRBBBBRBRBRRRBRRRRBBBRR.
.RRRRRRRBRRRBBRRRRBRRRBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

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Wonderful conversion ?  :-(

I've never had much success with GIF to Ascii convertors.

Bye,

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From: Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Ascii art program
Date: 1998/06/20
Message-ID: <898...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>#1/1
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