Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 10 Jul 2012.
scanned from Rolling Stone, 1972
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· 2 messages · 10 Jul 2012 - 3 Oct 2012
Large piece, printed on a wide line printer, then used in Rolling
Stone in 1972. This uses overprinting to get dark colors, but does
not, say, advance by half-lines or use tightly spaced characters.
Regular page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elithebearded/7497705348/
2048 pixel (scaled down to) image to make out individual characters:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8009/7497705348_a76e2a8e6b_k.jpg
The image in Rolling Stone is bigger than my scanner, so, this is
cropped to the scanner size.
The article it goes with has nothing about how the image was made,
but does talk a lot about computers. Good read to see some
predictions that came true, eg:
Since huge quantities of information can be computer-digitalized
and transmitted, music researchers could, for example, swap
records over the Net with "essentially perfect fidelity." So
much for record stores (in present form).
Earlier in the article the size of the "Net" is estimated at 20
computers in 1972.
Elijah
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a world where IPv4 was never going to run out of address space
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Eli the Bearded wrote: > Large piece, printed on a wide line printer, then used in Rolling > Stone in 1972. This uses overprinting to get dark colors, but does > not, say, advance by half-lines or use tightly spaced characters. Read a book once (late 80s and it was an older book then) that used a 3-d model to calulate the Fourier transform image, printed it to a line printer, overstrikes & all, photographically reduced it & presto! instant hologram! 3ch
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