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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 13 Aug 1998.
Re: Ascii-art resizer!

Re: Ascii-art resizer!

.----- On Sun, 09 Aug 1998 11:31:09 GMT, miK posted:
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|>Ok, prolly not the best examples.  The best way might be for the program to
|>turn the ASCII artwork into a bitmap (perhaps, just a dump of the font
|>shapes and such so that the bitmap looks identical to the ASCII version),
|>re-scale the bitmap using the various averaging and anti-aliasing techniques
|>people use, and then converted back to an ASCII.
|
|>The conversion back to ASCII would be the hardest I guess.  Perhaps such a
|>program could create a directly scaled version as in your original, and
|>create an ASCII-to-bitmap-to-ASCII version, and somehow use the first as
|>sort of a "layout" map..
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|Now, that's a curious detour... 
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I made a resizer for solid style asciis (although at present it only does 50%
reduction) that turns the ascii into a picture (the was ASC2PIC does) and then
resamples (er, probably) to 50%. It then does a kinda GIFscii operation on it
and creates a really weird resize of the pic.
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
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From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art resizer!
Date: 1998/08/13
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