Does this look like garbage (& golden gate bridge)
From Linwood Taylor <lin...@worldnet.att.net>
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· 8 Aug 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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You can get these if you stand 10+ feet away and look ... I'd hazard a guess that Doug is scanning pictures in and then converting using some pretty standard imaging tricks. Grab an n by k chunk of pixels from scanned picture and determine the relative intensity (b&w) level of that chunk and replace it with the ASCII that has the most similar intensity. Cute and clever looking pictures ... but it is my impression that this is not quite the intent of this news group. BTW ... I've seen some great ... great pics here ... thanx from one who gets to enjoy the fruit of your labor. Apologies for not having a 'cool' sig ... > > In article <5rvdqo$oqn$1...@clarion.carno.net.au>, nob...@nowhere.com (Doug) > > wrote: > > > > > ----,--,,,,-,,---,,,,,.,..,,--,-,------=-=--=-=-=-=-= > > > --=-------,-,,---,,,,-,,,,,,,,,---,,,,,,-=-=--------- > > > ==--,,,,,,,------=,--=----,,,----=---,---=--=-====-== > > > ====-=--====-===-==-=-===-=-=-----=---==-===-===-==== > > > =--=----=----/$XHHMMMMMMM##M#M##MH,--=-==-=-=-=-===== > > > ===-=-=----%%+X%%#M@@@@@@@MM#M#M#@MM====-======-===== > > > =--==-----@++X%+%M@@@@H@HH#M#MM#M#@MM/===-======-===- > > > ===-----=@X+/X%X+#XXHHHHH@MM@XHMHM#@HM#=-======-===== > > > ---=---/XXXX@H#M+MM$M@@@HMM#####M#M#@@M#M@=========== > > > ---=,;%X@HXH$XX$@@@@MMMMMMMM#MMMMM@MMMMM$MHH+//++%/:: > > > ;---:$$X@@MH$$$XXHHHHHM#MMMMM###M#M#%MM##MM#MMH++/+/+ > > > .....=/X+++=+@M@MM@H@MXHH$MH@@H@,@H@@M#MM@:/X:H .. . > > > ....-$H@%%+%%%%%%%XMM@H$..--%/// =#MM M#M@/XH+M$ > > > ,....;=-HX@@HH@HHX++.,@@%/$XH@MM#HH@MMM#MMMMMMMM@ .. > > > ... .=.=H%%%%%$$%$@=/=X@@@@MMM@+@HHMMMMM@@@@M@@@+ .. > > > ,..,...=M++X+%%$%$@/,= XH$+ #M/@##M#M##M#@#M#MMH... > > > ... ./=XXX//H../%$. /XMHXMMMMMMMMMMMM##MMM#M#@M,::;: > > > . . . . -$M=@@H@@M@@#@M@#@@@@M$####MM$%%%%$ > > > -,..... .. . .. ..., ..,.,,,-,-,..... ..,,,,-,,-, > > > ... .,.,....,,,,.,.,,., . ... ,... . .......,,,,.., > > > -,.,,,,,,,,.,,.,,....... .,.. .. ..,.,..,.,...,..,,. > > > ,.,,.,.,,,,,,,,...,,,....,.,,,,,.,,-,,,,,,,. .... ... > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a519e4d91b512104 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Linwood Taylor" <lin...@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Does this look like garbage (& golden gate bridge) Date: 1997/08/08 Message-ID: <01bca32a$ba7dece0$624992cf@Linzee>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 262843942 References: <5rvdqo$oqn$1...@clarion.carno.net.au> <nos...@lab2-130.cs.waikato.ac.nz> <33E...@worldnet.att.net> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Reply-To: no_...@geocities.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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