New to Ascii Art !

i'm new to Ascii Art, but i'm really excited. i've enjoyed Ascii Art,
though i didn't know what it was called, for a Long Time. i'm looking
forward to becoming friends with all of you in the Future.

i've read the Faq, but there are still a few questions i might have. if
you could please point me in the right direction i'd really Appreciate
it.

first, i wanted an program to make Ascii Arts out of graphical images
(like Gifs, Jpegs, &c). the Faq and other resources pointed me towards
Gifscii, but all the Urls i found were obsolete, and a copy i did manage
to find (through gopher i think) didn't work right on my unix box--it
displayed the image on only one line and didn't show anything.

second, i want to start making Ascii Art Comic Strips. are there any
programs to make this task Easier? something that would place the
Characters and make quote bubbles automatically and make sure that the
quote bubbles don't bump into each other is what i'm Thinking.

& lastly, are there any collections of Small Ascii Arts?  by Small i
mean smaller than maybe 8 columns by 5 lines. i'm looking for ideas for
Characters and can use all the help i can get.

thanks!!!


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> 
> i'm new to Ascii Art, but i'm really excited. i've enjoyed Ascii Art,
> though i didn't know what it was called, for a Long Time. i'm looking
> forward to becoming friends with all of you in the Future.

Do you like apples?

> i've read the Faq, but there are still a few questions i might have. if
> you could please point me in the right direction i'd really Appreciate
> it.

We'll try.
 
> first, i wanted an program to make Ascii Arts out of graphical images
> (like Gifs, Jpegs, &c). the Faq and other resources pointed me towards
> Gifscii, but all the Urls i found were obsolete, and a copy i did manage
> to find (through gopher i think) didn't work right on my unix box--it
> displayed the image on only one line and didn't show anything.

There are some new ones around but they all suck.The best way to 
convert a graphical fromat to ascii is to do it the hard way,by hand.
There ARE some ways to make this easier,like using a paint program's
text tool to overlay the miage and draw the ascii ontop of the image,or
use the image as a background in netscapes composer and draw the ascii
ontop if the image,or anyother way you can think of allowing you to
use a text processor with the image in the background.

Here is an exam ple ofthat kind of thing. 

,-------------------------------------------------.
|;;;/`.;;;;;-_ `;;;`. `;;;;.   ;;;;_,-"_;;;;;:;;;;|
|;;; ,:;\;;;;;`. `;;;`. `;;;;.  ;;;_-'"  ;;;;;:;;;|
|;; ;'....:-;;;;;-_`-~``-.:;;;;. ;;      ;;;;;:;;;|
|;.........__:-;;;;;-_      `;;;;_;----._ ;;; :;;;|
|;.... ,-""____"-:::..`-._ .::`;;;-""""-.".;;  ;;;|
|;..   .-" :   ;-._::::`"" ::',-" :   ;  ;-;   ;;;|
|;..    "-._`_'--"   ::    :.  ""`-`-'-'"  ;   ;;;|
|;..                .::    :.                  ;;;|
|F..                .::    ::.                 ;;;|
|j . .             ..::     :..                ;;:|
|;F . .           ..:'      `:.             . .;;:|
|;j. . .          .:'        `::           . .,;;:|
|;;F. . .         `:-""-  /""-;'          . . ;;;'|
|;;| . . .          `-  . . -'           . . .;;';|
|;;j. . .           . .  .  . .           . .;;;;;|
|;;j . .         . . .__   __ ..           .;'.j;;|
| `;F . .        ._,-'  "-"  "-._         . . .F;;|
|   J. . .      ,' ,----'`----.  `.      . . .j;;;|
|    \. . .      "\""---""""---""/"     . . ./;;; |
|     \. . .       `-._      _,-'      . . .//    |
|      `. . .          """"""         . . .'      |
|        `. . . .                    . . ,'       |
|        F `. . . .                 . .,' j       |
|       J    `-. . .               ._-'   |       |
|       |       `-._            _,-'      F Krogg |
`-------------------------------------------------'

The main problem with the kind of program you are looking for
is that the only attempts at this kind of programming are
mainly converting color or shade values to ascii characters
based on thier darkness or lightness and that dont really cut the
mustard.



> second, i want to start making Ascii Art Comic Strips. are there any
> programs to make this task Easier? something that would place the
> Characters and make quote bubbles automatically and make sure that the
> quote bubbles don't bump into each other is what i'm Thinking.

I havent ever heard of such a program.The best thing that most
asci artists seee as a feature in a text editor in relation
to the ones you are asking is "block mode".It is where you
can cut and paste text in rectangles in stead of paragraphs.
 

 
> & lastly, are there any collections of Small Ascii Arts?  by Small i
> mean smaller than maybe 8 columns by 5 lines. i'm looking for ideas for
> Characters and can use all the help i can get.

You can see lots of 6 line ascii made during the 6 line challange
here:

http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/junkyard/pics/six_line_challenge.txt

I am sure you will find others.

THe biggest index,that i know of of,ascii webpages can be found here:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2695/links.htm
 


> thanks!!!


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