Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 4 Feb 1999.
Where to get generator?
alt.ascii-art
· 3 messages · 4 Feb 1999 - 7 Feb 1999
Hi, Does anyone know where I can get a ASCII art generator. I want to generate an ASCII image of my name for an e-mail sig. please reply to rse...@hotmail.com or reply to this posting ... RS
Rakinder Sembhi wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can get a ASCII art generator. I want to generate > an ASCII image of my name for an e-mail sig. > To get something like this: ____ ____ .__ \ \ / /___________ ____ ____ |__| ____ _____ \ Y // __ \_ __ \/ _ \ / \| |/ ___\\__ \ \ /\ ___/| | \( <_> ) | \ \ \___ / __ \_ \___/ \___ >__| \____/|___| /__|\___ >____ / \/ \/ \/ \/ or this: __ __ _ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| or some other "ascii art font", try one of these: http://mediacube.datacom.de/cgi-bin/moniteurs/figlet http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/ ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/cgi-bin/figlet They are sites with a program called "Figlet" that "translates" ordinairy text to text "painted" as ascii art. -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
.----- On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:51:05 -0500, Rakinder Sembhi posted:
|Hi,
|
|Does anyone know where I can get a ASCII art generator. I want to generate
|an ASCII image of my name for an e-mail sig.
|
|please reply to rse...@hotmail.com or reply to this posting ...
|
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I think the thing you are after is FIGlet... try:
http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/
where you can put in your name, choose some fonts, and then have your name
rendered in ascii art!
Hope this helps,
-Martin
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