Re: ASCII Art Editor

.----- On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:47:18 +0100, Michael Cieslik posted:
|
|I do not have hints for your program, but I'm interested if there is any
|tool, which uses an picture - bitmaps e.g - for creating asciii-art. This
|tool could lay a grid over the image and calculate which ascii-character
|fits the best...
|
|So, anyone knows a program like th�s?
|
'-----------------------

I experimented with this idea a few months ago, but the results weren't as
good as I had hoped.
I called it lineGIFscii, and the outputs were like this...

      \////////////////////////         
      /                        \        
      / |         \|     |     \        
      / ||       \||    \\/    \        
      / | |     \| |    / /    \        
      / |  |   \|  |    | /    \        
      / |   | \|   |   \_  /   \        
      / |    ||    |   \////   \        
      / |          |   \   /   \        
      / |          |  /     \  \        
      / |          |  |     |  \        
      / |          |  _     /  \        
      / |          | /       / \        
      / |          | |       | \        
      /////////////////////////\        

I think the program is bugged, too, since it doesn't use most of the
characters I have given it to use. Maybe once all my school work is sorted
I'll have time to fiddle with it, but not for a few months yet.
Someone else made a very good program that did this, bit I can't remember
their name. Their program's far superiour output was like this...

            ____
          ,(4,',XF\O"""b**o*_
        _/,O,'*/'**'\,/'**(\0,
      _/'d/'","\*-\**'+*=+**'*_
     ,'/9/   "\_4**'\+-"**'\+-",
   ,/,4/       \_\'*-"+*''*-"+*",
 _/,d/'         )_)'+*-"*o'+*-"*o(
]'/'/   _/"")\_  ",)P"=P''4_"=P''4\_
"###4  (__,'  ]_  "\'P''9P'"}'"9P'"4_
    |  |  |    |  | )"XOO,OX,XX,,OX,b-
    |  |  |    ]  |  '--------------'
    |  |  |    ]  |  ,F""\_\   |
    |  |  |    ]  | _F    ( )_ |
    |  |  |    ]  | |     |  F | 
    |  |  |    ]  | |     |  | |______________________________
    |  ''"'===+-  | |     |  | [/___\__/___'__/___'__,,__'__|""\_
    |             | '--------' [__/__,\__/__,\__/__,\__/___\__/__,\
    |    ****-    |            ]O/___'__/-__'__/-__'__/\__'__/\____),_
    |    ****-    |            ]-O\,-__/\__-___\__-___\__/___'__/\__'_},
    | **********- |            | -\_'\_'__/\__'__/\__'__/\__'__/\__-_/\_b_
    | **********- |            | "\_'o/+__-\_/'__-\_/'__-\_/'__-\_/'__+\_X,
    |    ****-    |            |    \_'o/\,/'__+\__'__/\__'__/\__-\_/'__-\_\
    |    ****-    |            |     "\_'o'\,/'--(\,/_--_\,__--_\-__*od\o/0
    |    ****-    |            |       |\___'__XXXXO,,,,,,,)------------''|'
    |    ****-    |    ______,,]_      | '''''                _,,_        |
   _/    ****-    ]"4P"'*o''*-"*o_     |       ,*F"\_       _/"*, \_      |
 _/''    ****-     "FX+P''4-"+*''4_    |      /"  \__\      [    \__\     |
/_                   X"(=o''}("=o'"\   |     |     [  ]     |    ]  ]     |
'|      ,**oo,_       )/\_4X,XP*00XX+  |     |     [  ]     |    ]  ]     |
 |     (  /   "\_      ]**'''"''  |    |     |     [  ]     |    ]  ]     |
 |    (--{      ";     |          |    |     |     [  ]     |    ]  ]     |
 |    [  [       |     |          |    |     |     [  ]     |    ]  ]     |
 |    [  [       |     |          |    |     |     [  ]     |___,],,]     |
 |    [  [       |     |          |    |     |_____[,,]     '''           |
 |    [  [       |     |          |    |      '''                         |
 |    [  [       |     |          |    |                                  |
 |    [  [       |     |          |    |                           __,,,--=
 |    [  [       |     |          |    |                  __,,+--=9""'
 |    [  [       |     |          |    |        ___,,--='""'
 "---,[_,[_      |     |        __d,,__|__,o--P""''
      ''''""---,,|__   |  __,--"''   ''"'
                   '""'''"'
(clipped off right hand side to make it fit)

This program, if I remember correctly, traces lines rather than using the
grid method like mine, and has many more characters to choose from.
Unless someone knows who made the above program, I can't be of any further
help.

-Martin
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