Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 9 Jun 1994.
where can i get gifscii?
alt.ascii-art
· 4 messages · 9 Jun 1994 - 10 Jun 1994
I've been looking for this gifscii program forever. Does anyone know where I can find it? I'm also wondering if I can get it in Unix format, if not...i need a DOS version. Thanx for any help.... Travis
: I've been looking for this gifscii program forever. Does anyone know
: where I can find it? I'm also wondering if I can get it in Unix
: format, if not...i need a DOS version. Thanx for any help....
:
: Travis
Gifscii can be found at:
ftp.ncsu.edu:/pub/ncsu/chking/Archive/Gifscsii
These are the possible formats:
ALPHAGifscii.exe <- Digital Alpha
Gifscii.exe <- msdos
Gifscii.lha <- Amiga
Gifscii.ux <- unix (Sun)
MacGifscii.hqx <- Macintosh
VAXGifscii.exe <- Digital VAX
Gifsciiv2.2src <- latest c-source
Have fun,
Chris
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In article <10J...@pavo.concordia.ca>, DAN THE FUNKY MOOSE MAN <dl_...@pavo.concordia.ca> wrote: >Both programs convert only to black-and-white. >Actually, gif-to-ascii is ripe for research into better algorithms. If anyone is interested, I wrote a "ppmtoascii" converter that does output in (fairly crude) color. It's what I used for my second ASCII movie (bige.txt) .... (ppm is a lowest-common-denominator picture file format; them pbmplus utilities have a lot of converters for it, including a giftoppm program) It's not nearly as sophisticated as gifscii in terms of trying to match a character based on its shape; it merely has a list of 'nice' characters ordered by 'brightness' and selects from this based on the average intensity over the character cell. It's not clear, however, that gifscii's trickiness gains very much, at least for the images I was working with. My quick hack also lacks gifscii's very nice contrast/brightness controls. I actually found that animation buys a *lot* in terms of perceived image quality and clarity; probably not much of a surprise. Dan
In article <2t89o1$p8...@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu>, tho...@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu (Travis Hoyt) writes... > >I've been looking for this gifscii program forever. Does anyone know >where I can find it? I'm also wondering if I can get it in Unix >format, if not...i need a DOS version. Thanx for any help.... > >Travis The original gif->ascii converter is ascgif, author John Ferrell. It works by replacing a pixel in the image with an ascii character that approximates the 'brightness' of the pixel, using a table of 16 ascii chars. A revised version was released as Gif2Ascii. Both programs are non- compatible with gif89 files. I made an attempt to improve the conversion of pixels to ascii with Gifscii. It is structured and runs a lot like ascgif, using some of the original code for reading the gif into memory. Gifscii uses a larger set of characters and attempts to mimic several pixels with each char. Some work was also done to allow compilation of Gifscii on multiple platforms, which is why the program looks the same no matter what machine you run it on - except on those which it crashes :-) Both programs convert only to black-and-white. Actually, gif-to-ascii is ripe for research into better algorithms. Anyway, here's where you can find Gifscii: ftp.ncsu.edu in the /pub/ncsu/chking/Archive/Gifscii directory: ALPHAGifscii.exe <- Digital Alpha Gifscii.exe <- msdos Gifscii.lha <- Amiga Gifscii.ux <- unix (Sun) MacGifscii.hqx <- Macintosh VAXGifscii.exe <- Digital VAX Gifsciiv2.2src <- latest c-source The executables are compressed by the program of the donor's choice. Paul Kline @c@ pk6...@acad.drake.edu - ignorance exceeded only by inquisitance -
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