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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Dec 2002.
Re: jpeg2ascii

Re: jpeg2ascii

Harry Mason <spa...@no.spam> wrote in message news:<slr...@servalan.ecs.soton.ac.uk>...
> Rob Bowmaker <rob...@dse.gen.nz> wrote:
> > "JD Neff" <ban...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I have created a jpeg2ascii image converter.
> >> It is written in PHP and can be viewed at my site here:
> >>
> >> http://www.jdneff.com/index.php
> >
> > That isn't ASCII. That's HTML.
> > 
> > ASCII art is a plain text file, without color tags.
> 
> I was about to recommend "lynx -dump", then I saw the output. It's a neat
> idea, but I can't actually see what it looks like at the moment as I'm on a
> black-and-white text terminal. That is why on this group only plain text art
> is called "ASCII art" and other techniques (HTML, ANSI, extended character
> sets) are called "text art".
> 
> Why not provide an alternative output style, which uses different characters
> instead of colours?
> 
> I promise I'll try your program properly as soon as I'm on a graphical
> terminal :)

Actually I am working on a version which will do true ascii-art i will
definitely post a follow up once it is ready.

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