Re: images to ascii conversion algorithm ?
"Harm Cuppens" <s23...@mail.nwmissouri.edu> wrote in message news:a38...@posting.google.com... > Hello all, > > I'm thinking of creating a little program that would convert greyscale > bmp's to ascii art. (I know i'm certainly not the first one to do > this, it's just for fun and learning) > > The conversion from pixels to an ascii character troubles me the most. > I was thinking of grouping chunks of pixel data and then select a > character for that group but what particular character should that be? > What determines the choice for a character. > > If anybody has some info that clears my head up a bit, it would be > appreciated very much. > (don't know if this off topic, if so, sorry) > > Greetings, > Harm Cuppens Have you tried the following: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=pixel+algorithm+conversion&btnG=Goog le+Search&meta=group%3Dalt.ascii-art.* ? I don't know if you will find what you are looking for, and I don't believe I can offer any further assistance... But from what I've noticed, the resident ascii-related programming guru (at least the most regularly vocal one) is Markus Gebhart, maybe you can find something usefull at his site: http://www.jave.de . Good luck, -Phydeaux ObAscii: (sig-sized ascii conversion of a snowball in antarctica flying in a snowstorm)
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