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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Feb 1999.
Re: graphics --> ascii

Re: graphics --> ascii

Dmitrik Kolesnikov wrote:
> i have to convert graphics to displaying in pure ascii,
> (all graphics presented in vector form), but i don't know how to do it.
> 
> i writes program and it will display graphical results in textmode, using
> default screen font, in ascii. :-|
> 
> raster graphics i can convert - but *very* slowly - to ascii by distributing
> image to grid 8x16 (8x8, 8x14) and searching char image what looks like this
> part of image (but it takes lot of time, or works very draft). because i have
> vector graphics (stored in internal form, all picture contains only several
> monochrome lines (x1,y1) -- (x2,y2), all have width 1 pixel, screen looks
> like (0,0) -- (Xsize-1,Ysize-1) etc.), i think converting vector graphics to
> ascii will be faster and ergh... bigger quality
> 

You may find something like this useful:


     3/1    2/1     1/1     2/3     1/2
|    |      /      /      .'      .'
|    |     |      /      /      .'
|    /     /     /     .'     .'          1/3
|   |     |     /     /     .'         .-'
|   |     /    /    .'    .'        .-'
|   /    |    /    /    .'       .-'       1/4
|  |     /   /   .'   .'      .-'      _.-'
|  |    |   /   /   .'     .-'     _.-'       1/5
|  /    /  /  .'  .'    .-'    _.-'      _.--'
| |    |  /  /  .'   .-'   _.-'     _.--'      1/6
| |    / / .' .'  .-'  _.-'    _.--'    __.--'     1/7
| |   | / / .' .-' _.-'   _.--'   __.--'    __..--'
              _.-'  _.--'   __.--'   __..--'    1/8
               _.--'  __.--'  __..--'   __..--''
                __.--' __..--'  __..--''
                __..--' __..--''
                __..--''
               -------------------------- 0


And something similar for rounded shapes...


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    (,         http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/
    /|__--__                       .                        __--__
    |\ '__                        /|\                        _{ _ 
    `.' / `.,_ _________           |           _________ _,.' (/ `.
    /  ||``._.'             ASCII ART CHAT!             `---'|:||,/
  .'   /|                                                   /|:| \
.'    /\ \         __   __                _                 `/|'\'
 ` `,/ /`,\        \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _         /,'\ \
   .'.'  /|         \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` |        |\  `.`.
 ,' /   / |          \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_|        | \   \ `,
- `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -

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