Talk-GIF: Zero Assassin conversion

Bob Allison:
>   The above pic is a line drawing.  Conversions are made by turning a
>GIF into an ASCII pic.  The GIF is usually a gray scale or color
>photograph, but sometimes it's a cartoon.  The conversion is done using
>software like Gifscii, ASCGIF, etc.
>   Your line drawing cannot be converted in this manner.  It could be
>used by an artist as a storting point to make a gray scale type of ASCII
>pic by hand.  But that's time consuming.

Just to be ornery, I did a gifscii conversion of that ascii picture,
with a little help from the pbmplus tools and XV.  No hand touchup
involved.  Took me about 15 minutes to produce this mediocre result.
Someday I have to fetch the latest version of pbmplus and see how well
its pbmtoascii works..

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