Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 24 Nov 1999.
[PIC] David and Alien
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 24 Nov 1999
To make this picture I first scanned part of a photo of myself taken in a
"Coffee House" in Amsterdam earlier this year and saved the image as a jpg. The
next step was to use IrfanView to resize the image to about 80 pixels wide and
let the height auto-adjust to keep the correct proportions. Then I reduced the
height by half and saved the new image as a gif. I then used the programme GIFA
to convert the gif to an ascii picture. The ascii picture was then inversed and
the contrast increased a couple of times before saving as an ascii file. The
final step was to open the ascii file in Notepad and spend some time tidying up
the details and smoothing the curves. (I converted the spectacles to shades
because I couldn't get the eyes right).
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/_ _\ Whilst I was making the above picture I remembered
|/ \ / \| how everywhere I went in Amsterdam I saw images of
|\__\/__/| Aliens so I dug out this old ascii alien head
\ / picture and pasted it into FigWin. Then I used
\ __ / Notepad to remove all the lines and added shading.
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