Re: GIF conversions (was: Re: History)
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
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· 21 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:59:04 +1200, Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote: >Colin Douthwaite wrote: >> >> Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote: >> >... >> >---- > ,. _ > |J /J > ,') n F > |( __J. ,-----------------------------------. > | `- ] | `Let us therefore brace ourselves | > _> .:;J | to our duties, and so bear our- | > | ``"'. | selves that if ASCII art and its | > )_' _,' | Usenet groups last for a thousand | > ,MMMMMMF ,..___,. | years, men and women will still | > MMMMMMM MMMMMMMJ | say, "this was our finest hour".' | > JMMMMMME MMMMMMMML `. ,--------------------------------' > MMMMMMM[ ,aJhmmmmmmmmMMM. |/ >JMMMMMMM[ `"*MMM**H*MMMP*" / >MMMMMMMME (,-=ms:mn-J' ' >MMMMMMMMMn_ mt-2 :._.'_\:.J >YMMMMMMMMMO+n._ `;:`---(.[ > "*MMMMMMMMhh++MMMLhn;;::.J. > "*MMMMMMMMO+O"*OMMM++-"'.Mhm,. > "*MMMMMMMO+++`**MMMP**"'MMMO, > "*MMMMMOO+++OOMhMh YM\OOO > "MMMMMOO++OO`MhOO\/MMM\+/L > |MMMMMOO++OO`MhOO\OMMM\+|| > JOMMMMMMOOOO.MMMO+\**OM\|JL > FOMMMMMMMOO.'MMMOO+A+OMM|OO, > /OOMMMMMMMOO*!MMMMOJ+\+O'|MOL > /++OOMMMMMMo |M\MMO/m==|+O|OMM > '">++OOOMMMMM/MMM"-"O++oAO+|OMOh >>---- >> >> 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b95c078a91be9537 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fd588,b95c078a91be9537 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Subject: Re: GIF conversions (was: Re: History) Date: 1998/08/21 Message-ID: <35d...@news.southern.co.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 382945188 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <903...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <35D...@spamfree.land> <903...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <35D...@spamfree.land> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Southern InterNet Services Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: cfb...@southern.co.nz Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation
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