OT: ASCII art generator

Now I know, the real ascii artist does it by hand, so this might be slightly off
topic ;)

A side product of a project I did

(http://motiontrack.sf.net)

is a pattern detection based ascii art generator

Now its much slower than aalib, but doe to the pattern matching approach, it
IMHO produces better output with line art (white on black) graphic sources

Here is a raven - produced by masciiart after running it on a filtered drawing
the origin picture has been taken from

http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/bird/raven.php
(raven1.gif)

steps to reproduce:
1. blow the image up to a reasonable size for ascii art
> mresize raven1.gif raven2.png -v 400
2. remove the size change artefacts
> mblur raven2.png raven3.png
3. outline the image
> menhance raven3.png raven4.png -s 150
4. search for patterns and translate them to ascii chars
> masciiart raven4.png
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with more optimized filter settings the result could likely be even better ;)

greetings

Corvus Corax

Coud you pleace include win32 binaries? Thanks

Robin

Am 30 Oct 2005 06:18:10 -0800
schrieb "rob...@gmail.com" <rob...@gmail.com>:

> Coud you pleace include win32 binaries? Thanks
> 
> Robin
> 

Hrrr

As if I had nothing better to do than to boot windows, install cygwin, and try
compile stuff - ts ts ts ...

http://motiontrack.sf.net:

> NEW: As per request of some guy in alt.ascii-art:
> motiontrack-0.1.3-win32bin.zip experimental stage windows binaries - not
> thoroughly tested, use at own risk
> MD5sum: a8ef1726b3dddc8d45f3b3b2ce9fba1d

> http://gemia.de/motion/motiontrack-0.1.3-win32bin.zip

I will definitely not create a GUI for it, so dont ask,

Its a bit difficult to use with the windows command prompt, unless you knew
about MS-DOS,
read the readme.txt file in the zip

To get it running, you eill either have to start it from within the directory
where all those DLLs are, or copy all .dll files to C:\windows\system32 first

tell me if it works for you ;)

regards

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