Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 18 Aug 1998.
Gif to ASCII art converter
alt.ascii-art
· 17 messages · 18 Aug 1998 - 9 Sep 1998
Hi Im trying to find a program that will convert .GIF .BMP or.TGA files into ASCII art images. Idealy one that will be able to batch convert a groupe of images at once. It dosnt matter if it is PC or Mac. Thanks Adam Dransfield begin: vcard fn: Adam Dransfield n: Dransfield;Adam org: Wellington Polytechnic, Video Studio adr;dom: ;;Private Box 756;Wellington;;; email;internet: Ada...@design.wnp.ac.nz tel;work: +64 4 801 2794 x8416 tel;fax: +64 801 2799 tel;home: 021 455997 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard
Adam Dransfield a �crit dans le message <35D...@design.wnp.ac.nz>... >Hi >Im trying to find a program that will convert .GIF .BMP or.TGA files >into ASCII art images. >Idealy one that will be able to batch convert a groupe of images at >once. It dosnt matter if it is PC or >Mac. >Thanks Adam Dransfield > http://users.skynet.be/pascalbe/ascii.html But it's not really user friendly :-) ------------------------------------------ pal*nos...@bsb.be Please remove *nospam before sending email
.----- On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:40:20 +1300, Adam Dransfield posted: | |Hi |Im trying to find a program that will convert .GIF .BMP or.TGA files |into ASCII art images. |Idealy one that will be able to batch convert a groupe of images at |once. It dosnt matter if it is PC or |Mac. |Thanks Adam Dransfield | '------------------------- I have a small program simply called 'asciiart' which does just that (for BMP files). Do you want to to email you a copy, and if so uuencode or MIME? If you`re using netscape (which I suspect you are) then it really doesn`t matter which you choose! Have a great day! Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:07:36 +0200, "Alberty Pascal" <pal*nos...@bsb.be> wrote: > >Adam Dransfield a �crit dans le message ><35D...@design.wnp.ac.nz>... >>Hi >>Im trying to find a program that will convert .GIF .BMP or.TGA files >>into ASCII art images. >>Idealy one that will be able to batch convert a groupe of images at >>once. It dosnt matter if it is PC or >>Mac. >>Thanks Adam Dransfield >> > >http://users.skynet.be/pascalbe/ascii.html > >But it's not really user friendly :-) Here's a list of conversion tool locations. All the GIF to ASCII convertors seem quite crappy and don't give good pictures in my opinion: To locate the most convenient copy of the following listed programs try a simple search on www.altavista.com by typing in the name of the actual program. ==================================================================== From: "J. Melusky" <wha...@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ASCII rendering Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:11:33 -0800 Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970402201039.107420B-100000@homer35. u.washington.edu> Conversion programs List: (Available Feb 22 1997) For: Dos, PC, MAC, VAX, (45-58K) Host: ftp.wwa.com Address: 198.49.174.1 Path: pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% or (Available Feb 22 1996) Search http://www.shareware.com's Macintosh directory for "emaileffects.sit.hqx (458K) for an ascii program. or 'sig95_2g.zip' 'sigpro2d.zip' (Win3.1) for signature alphabet programs. or 'pixch020.zip' or 'emailasc.zip'for Bitmap to Ascii conversion programs. or (Available Feb 15 1997) Search http://www.shareware.com's Amiga directory for "AsciiArtP_F.lha" (152K) Ascii Painting Program V2.1 or %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% (Available Feb 22 1997) Two BMP2TXT.zip programs can be found at: http://www.bsoftware.com/ssearch.htm Operating System: DOS. or pixch020.zip - WIN3+: Bitmap to ASCII conv. (VBRUN200.DLL req) Size of file: 17335 Operating System: Windows3+ or achart12.zip - WIN3: ASCII chart, ANSI/IBM-PC/EBCDIC charsets Size of file: 18367 Operating System: Windows3+ or sigpro2d.zip - Generates .sig file ASCII-Art letters. Win3.1 Size of file: 199861 Operating System: Windows3+ or xascii2.zip - Help File with Windows ASCII Char Sets Size of file: 20846 Operating System: Windows3+ or asciia11.zip - Convert GIFs into ASCII art for BBSs,etc. Size of file: 96464 Operating System: DOS or asciiart.zip - Creates and Edits ASCII art, mouse interface Size of file: 199762 Operating System: DOS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% (Available Feb 22 1997) BMP to ASCII program: Win 3.1 http://ring.aist.go.jp/openlab/fumio/www/charac/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~pal/ascii.html GIFA.EXE (3/25/97) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% (Worked Feb 22 1997) http://www.webserve.com/gateways/figletgateway.pl FIGLET DIY %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% (Available Feb 15 1997) ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming /mac/graphics/graphicsutil/asciipaint1.0b4.sit.hqx 82 5/15/95 BinHex4.0,StuffIt3.50 (Nifty paint program draws ascii pictures useful for online chat, sig files, etc.; free!) or /mac/graphics/graphicsutil/pict2asciiart.sit.hqx 88 8/6/95 BinHex4.0,StuffIt3.5 (Converts picture data into ASCII art; requires some use of ResEdit 2.1 or later to create the art) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% http://home.sol.no/ekveland/download/Ascii/ has these Mac apps: ASCIIArtMaker.hqx 19-Feb-97 17:14 84k ASCIIPaint10.hqx 19-Feb-97 17:15 127k EmailEffects10.hqx 19-Feb-97 17:17 357k FIGlet211m001.hqx 19-Feb-97 17:17 39k Gifscii.hqx 19-Feb-97 17:17 25k %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/cgi-bin/figlet/service FIGLET FONTS (3/97) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The Draw Fonts ftp://archie.au/pc/coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/simtel/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.web.ad.jp/pub/mirrors/Coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.nic.surfnet.nl/mirror-archive/software/simtel-msdos/ screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/mirror/Coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.agt.net/pub/Simtel/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5997/tdrawfnt.zip (Feb 6 1997) Take care, Jon Melusky ==================================================================== There is also a Windows program in a self-extracting archive named B2T110E.EXE. It converts greyscale bitmap files into ascii files. Bye,
.----- On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:54:42 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|
|Is it just as crappy as ASCGIF and GIFSCII which are very user unfriendly,
|yield garbage pictures of unuseful size, will not process GIF 89a files?
'---------------------------
Well first, it`s a BMP2ASC converter, so no it won`t do GIF89a. <g>
It`s user friendly though, it`s a windows program with a nice simple
interface. However, look at the output:
.- Sample output from ASCIIART ----.
| ;$XXHXXXXXXX+. |
| :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$. |
| /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/ |
| /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH% |
| .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH; |
| ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX. |
| .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX; |
| =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$ |
| /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX- |
| %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/ |
| XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$. |
|.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.|
|,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@|
|-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@|
|=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@|
|=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@|
|=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@|
|-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@|
| //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@|
| %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@|
| =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/|
| $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......|
'------------------- for Windows! -'
Not particularly good.
BTW, guess who that is... It`s someone famous!
.---------------------------
|
|Yeah, I know, if only I will buy and install Windoze 95 or 98, and buy
|a new powerful computer to run them then there are wonderful GIF -> ASCII
|convertors that will make me Top Ascii Artist of this century!
|
'---------------------------
Not neccesarily... It`s the artist that`s ultimately skilled, not the
software he/she uses. Remember the undisputed queen of ascii art uses one of
the crappest text editors in the world... it won`t even let you
right-cursorkey along blank lines unless you fill them with spaces!
I`m gonna stick with TextPad. <g>
|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@--
| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:11:45 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: >.----- On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:40:20 +1300, Adam Dransfield posted: >| >|Hi >|Im trying to find a program that will convert .GIF .BMP or.TGA files >|into ASCII art images. >|Idealy one that will be able to batch convert a groupe of images at >|once. It dosnt matter if it is PC or >|Mac. >|Thanks Adam Dransfield >| >'------------------------- >I have a small program simply called 'asciiart' which does just that (for >BMP files). Do you want to to email you a copy, and if so uuencode or MIME? >If you`re using netscape (which I suspect you are) then it really doesn`t >matter which you choose! Is it just as crappy as ASCGIF and GIFSCII which are very user unfriendly, yield garbage pictures of unuseful size, will not process GIF 89a files? Yeah, I know, if only I will buy and install Windoze 95 or 98, and buy a new powerful computer to run them then there are wonderful GIF -> ASCII convertors that will make me Top Ascii Artist of this century! Bye,
Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote: >.----- On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:47:40 +0200, Silja Jensen posted: >|> .- Sample output from ASCIIART ----. >|> | ;$XXHXXXXXXX+. | >|> | :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$. | >|> | /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/ | >|> | /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH% | >|> | .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH; | >|> | ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX. | >|> | .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX; | >|> | =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$ | >|> | /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX- | >|> | %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/ | >|> | XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$. | >|> |.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.| >|> |,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@| >|> |-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@| >|> |=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@| >|> |=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@| >|> |=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@| >|> |-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@| >|> | //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@| >|> | %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@| >|> | =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/| >|> | $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......| >|> '------------------- for Windows! -' >|> >|> BTW, guess who that is... It`s someone famous! >| >|Ooooh I know. Its Jennifer Love Hewitt!!! Or Fran Drechner. >| >'-------------------------- >.------------ Colin Douthwaite answered: >| It`s bill gates >'---------------- >(or words to that effect) >.------------ and then later said: >| It`s bill gates in the nude >'---------------- >(or words to that effect) >I`m sorry, but you are all wrong :o/ >In fact the picture was converted from a .jpg of Victoria Adams from the >Spice Girls. Just shows you really how crap the program is! I'm absolutely astonished...I was certain it was Bill Gates in the nude. Who else would put "for Windows!" as the author's name in the picture? Hmm...on second thoughts don't answer that question...I can think of someone! *8-) Bye,
Martin Atkins wrote: > > .----- On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:54:42 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted: > | > |Is it just as crappy as ASCGIF and GIFSCII which are very user unfriendly, > |yield garbage pictures of unuseful size, will not process GIF 89a files? > '--------------------------- > Well first, it`s a BMP2ASC converter, so no it won`t do GIF89a. <g> > It`s user friendly though, it`s a windows program with a nice simple > interface. However, look at the output: > > .- Sample output from ASCIIART ----. > | ;$XXHXXXXXXX+. | > | :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$. | > | /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/ | > | /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH% | > | .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH; | > | ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX. | > | .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX; | > | =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$ | > | /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX- | > | %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/ | > | XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$. | > |.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.| > |,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@| > |-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@| > |=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@| > |=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@| > |=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@| > |-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@| > | //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@| > | %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@| > | =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/| > | $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......| > '------------------- for Windows! -' > > Not particularly good. > > BTW, guess who that is... It`s someone famous! Ooooh I know. Its Jennifer Love Hewitt!!! Or Fran Drechner. -- ___ _ _ / _ \ / |/ | "Don't go changing, rearranging, hold on to a ( (_) |- |- | Love Sensation" \__, || || | dls...@online.no / / | || | http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/1231/ /_/ |_||_| http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/5769/
.----- On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:47:40 +0200, Silja Jensen posted: |> .- Sample output from ASCIIART ----. |> | ;$XXHXXXXXXX+. | |> | :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$. | |> | /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/ | |> | /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH% | |> | .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH; | |> | ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX. | |> | .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX; | |> | =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$ | |> | /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX- | |> | %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/ | |> | XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$. | |> |.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.| |> |,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@| |> |-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@| |> |=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@| |> |=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@| |> |=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@| |> |-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@| |> | //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@| |> | %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@| |> | =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/| |> | $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......| |> '------------------- for Windows! -' |> |> BTW, guess who that is... It`s someone famous! | |Ooooh I know. Its Jennifer Love Hewitt!!! Or Fran Drechner. | '-------------------------- .------------ Colin Douthwaite answered: | It`s bill gates '---------------- (or words to that effect) .------------ and then later said: | It`s bill gates in the nude '---------------- (or words to that effect) I`m sorry, but you are all wrong :o/ In fact the picture was converted from a .jpg of Victoria Adams from the Spice Girls. Just shows you really how crap the program is! Have fun, Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
I would be interested in this program too? Where can I find it? On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:11:45 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: >.----- On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:40:20 +1300, Adam Dransfield posted: >| >|Hi >|Im trying to find a program that will convert .GIF .BMP or.TGA files >|into ASCII art images. >|Idealy one that will be able to batch convert a groupe of images at >|once. It dosnt matter if it is PC or >|Mac. >|Thanks Adam Dransfield >| >'------------------------- > >I have a small program simply called 'asciiart' which does just that (for >BMP files). Do you want to to email you a copy, and if so uuencode or MIME? >If you`re using netscape (which I suspect you are) then it really doesn`t >matter which you choose! > >Have a great day! >Martin > >|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- >| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com Kind Regards, Bill Krahmer, ElectraSoft Get newest version of [FaxMail for Windows], [FaxMail Network for Windows] or [32bit Fax], free trial: http://www.ElectraSoft.com/ To read what users are saying about ElectraSoft's fax software, go to http://www.ElectraSoft.com/10GoodReasons/
.----- On 24 Aug 1998 20:00:17 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|
|I'm absolutely astonished...I was certain it was Bill Gates in the
|nude. Who else would put "for Windows!" as the author's name in the
|picture?
|
|Hmm...on second thoughts don't answer that question...I can think of
|someone! *8-)
|
'------------------------
'For Windows!' as in the program that converted it is for windows :o)
(And I added that border, not the program. The output straight out of
ASCIIART (the program, that is) looks like this...
..,,,
.:$$$XHX%;,
;$XXHXXXXXXX+.
,+XXXHHXXXXXXXX$,
:XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$.
;XXXXHHHXHHHHHHXXXX%
/XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/
,X$XXXXHHXXHHHHHHHHXHHX=
/XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH%
$XXXXHHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHX-
.XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH;
=XXXXXHHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHX%
;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX.
%XXXHX+//++////$HHHHHHHXXX=
.$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX;
,XXXHX/;;::::::;/+$HHHHHHXH+
=XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$
:XXXH$//;;;::::;;;+XXHHHHHHX.
/HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX-
+HXXH%/;;;;::::;/+%$XHHHHHXX:
%HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/
$XXXH%////////%X$XHHHHHHHHHX%
XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$.
.XXXXHH$$%++/;///++%%$HHHHHHHX:
.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.
.X$XXHX+;;;//://;;;;/$XHHH@HHHH@@H=
,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@@;
-X$XXH@$;;/+/;/+/;;/+$XHHH@HHHH@@@@@/
-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@@@@:
=$$XXH@@$+%++/+++//+$XHHHH@HXHH@@@@@@H.
=$$XXH@@H%%+///////%$XHHHH@HXHH@@@@@@@;
=$$XXH@@@X%$%/;//++%$XHHHHHHXH@@@@@@@@X
=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@@@@@@-
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=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@@@@@@@+
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Bye Bye,
Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@--
| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
.----- On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:36:04 GMT, Martin Atkins posted: | |In fact the picture was converted from a .jpg of Victoria Adams from the |Spice Girls. Just shows you really how crap the program is! | '------------------ That is, A .jpg converted to a .BMP first :o) You get best results if you reduce the pic to 16 colours and then greyscale it... or the other way round, which I guess would be better giving you 16 shades of grey. Then of course you size the pic to about 70 pixels wide and then half the height to make up for the weird shape of the character boxes. |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:01:53 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: >.----- On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:54:42 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted: >| >|Is it just as crappy as ASCGIF and GIFSCII which are very user unfriendly, >|yield garbage pictures of unuseful size, will not process GIF 89a files? >'--------------------------- >Well first, it`s a BMP2ASC converter, so no it won`t do GIF89a. <g> >It`s user friendly though, >it`s a windows program with a nice simple >interface. A Windoze program? Bleah! I just lost interest. >However, look at the output: > > .- Sample output from ASCIIART ----. > | ;$XXHXXXXXXX+. | > | :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$. | > | /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/ | > | /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH% | > | .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH; | > | ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX. | > | .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX; | > | =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$ | > | /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX- | > | %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/ | > | XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$. | > |.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.| > |,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@| > |-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@| > |=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@| > |=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@| > |=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@| > |-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@| > | //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@| > | %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@| > | =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/| > | $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......| > '------------------- for Windows! -' > >Not particularly good. >BTW, guess who that is... It`s someone famous! It could only be BILL GATES, the Windoze Maestro hisself! 8-) >.--------------------------- >| >|Yeah, I know, if only I will buy and install Windoze 95 or 98, and buy >|a new powerful computer to run them then there are wonderful GIF -> ASCII >|convertors that will make me Top Ascii Artist of this century! >| >'--------------------------- >Not neccesarily... It`s the artist that`s ultimately skilled, not the >software he/she uses. Remember the undisputed queen of ascii art uses one of >the crappest text editors in the world... it won`t even let you >right-cursorkey along blank lines unless you fill them with spaces! That's all a load of crap Martin! *8-( She may be a great artist but that does not make her great at anything else! Hah! She actually has to use that crappy and clunky old Windoze editor "Notepad". YUK! Bye,
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:47:40 +0200, Silja Jensen <dls...@online.no> wrote: >Martin Atkins wrote: > Well first, it`s a BMP2ASC converter, so no it won`t do GIF89a. <g> >> It`s user friendly though, it`s a windows program with a nice simple >> interface. However, look at the output: >> >> .- Sample output from ASCIIART ----. >> | ;$XXHXXXXXXX+. | >> | :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$. | >> | /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/ | >> | /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH% | >> | .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH; | >> | ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX. | >> | .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX; | >> | =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$ | >> | /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX- | >> | %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/ | >> | XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$. | >> |.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.| >> |,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@| >> |-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@| >> |=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@| >> |=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@| >> |=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@| >> |-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@| >> | //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@| >> | %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@| >> | =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/| >> | $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......| >> '------------------- for Windows! -' >> >> Not particularly good. >> BTW, guess who that is... It`s someone famous! >Ooooh I know. Its Jennifer Love Hewitt!!! Or Fran Drechner. Nah...anyone can see that it's Bill Gates in the nude! Bye,
Hi all,
This is my first venture into alt.ascii.art and I 'm pretty impressed
with some of the stuff I've seen here.
I have just got a small question ,would someone be kind enough to point me
to an URL where I can get hold of this BMP -> ASCII converter, It'd be
really appreciated.
Cheers
Dave
(who has no sig at this point - soon...)
email address is dia...@uscom.com thx alexisis Adam Dransfield <Ada...@design.wnp.ac.nz> wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >--------------09AA775651AAF8417E3C27FD >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Hi >Im trying to find a program that will convert .GIF .BMP or.TGA files >into ASCII art images. >Idealy one that will be able to batch convert a groupe of images at >once. It dosnt matter if it is PC or >Mac. >Thanks Adam Dransfield >--------------09AA775651AAF8417E3C27FD >Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: Card for Adam Dransfield >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" >begin: vcard >fn: Adam Dransfield >n: Dransfield;Adam >org: Wellington Polytechnic, Video Studio >adr;dom: ;;Private Box 756;Wellington;;; >email;internet: Ada...@design.wnp.ac.nz >tel;work: +64 4 801 2794 x8416 >tel;fax: +64 801 2799 >tel;home: 021 455997 >x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 >x-mozilla-html: FALSE >version: 2.1 >end: vcard >--------------09AA775651AAF8417E3C27FD--
.----- On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:01:11 +0100, David Southall posted: |Hi all, | This is my first venture into alt.ascii.art and I 'm pretty impressed |with some of the stuff I've seen here. |I have just got a small question ,would someone be kind enough to point me |to an URL where I can get hold of this BMP -> ASCII converter, It'd be |really appreciated. |Cheers | Dave | |(who has no sig at this point - soon...) | '----------------------- I`m hopefully getting some more webspace soon, so I can stick this ASCIIART proggy on there instead of keep writing this message. There`s a BMP > ASCII ART proggy for Windows called ASCIIART. If you want a copy, drop me an EMail - and please state if you need it uuencoded or MIME encoded specifically... if you don`t say I`ll just use uuencode. Hope this helps, Martin. |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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