Re: [DIS] A little history question
look here for program bg_ascii: http://www.mazaika.com/ when used in black/white mode it use sub-cell detail analysis. -boris goo...@inio.org (Ian Rickard) wrote in message news:<ebf...@posting.google.com>... > This may seem like a bit of a weird question, but here we go: > > Does anyone know of ASCII-Art generation software that considered > sub-character source image detail and was publicly available in or > before October 1996? > > The earliest occurrence that I was able to find with a brief search > was ASCIIMac, released in 1998. It did sub-character analysis and > even did it in real time. I'm reasonably sure that if someone was > doing it real-time then, someone else had to have been doing it on > still images long before that. > > > As a sample of what I'm talking about, here's what the output might > look like given an input of a black skewed triangle on a white > background. On the left is what the output from the kind of software > I'm interested would look like. On the right is the output of what > the much simpler algorithms that were around as early as the 70s would > generate. > > sub-cell detail simple brightness > '#$$h, .:MM:. > '#$h, .:M:. > '#h, .::. > '\. .:.
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