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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Aug 1998.
Re: GIF conversions (was: Re: History)

Re: GIF conversions (was: Re: History)

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:59:04 +1200, Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land>
wrote:

>Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>> 
>> Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote:
>> >...
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>  ,MMMMMMF         ,..___,.      | years,  men  and  women  will still |
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>>----
>>
>> I'm intrigued.
>> 
>> Exactly how did you produce that picture of Winston Churchill?

>Well, put it this way: that picture is the main reason why I am so tired
>this morning ...
 
>> My guess is a scanned photograph from a history book followed
>> by a GIF to ASCII conversion.

>Actually, a GIF from http://www.winstonchurchill.org/ (yes, there is
>such a Web site -- although many of its graphics are ridiculously large
>BMPs, yuk), converted by hand (which is why I'm so tired :-). If the
>conversion had been done by computer, there would have been a greater
>range of characters used for different grey scales.

Wow...then that is brilliant...and I think how much I used to grizzle
about horizontal reversals by hand until ASCTOOL.EXE arrived.

Your epic shall go into the upcoming Ascii Art History File due out in
September.

Actually I would like to see what Allen Mullen could do to enhance your
Winston Churchill work...he is an expert with GIF conversions.

Bye,

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From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: GIF conversions (was: Re: History)
Date: 1998/08/21
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