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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 28 Mar 2007.
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ascii art for mac osx

ascii art for mac osx

alt.ascii-art · 5 messages · 28 Mar 2007 - 18 Apr 2007
Anyone know where i can get a half decent Ascii art programme  or
plugin (for photoshop CS)  for Mac OSX (10.4)   the only (non-Windows)
ones ive found are ultra basic with no real controls   very
frustrating !!

viralux wrote:

>Anyone know where i can get a half decent Ascii art programme  or
>plugin (for photoshop CS)  for Mac OSX (10.4)   the only (non-Windows)
>ones ive found are ultra basic with no real controls   very
>frustrating !!

JAVE (Java ASCII Virtual Editor) will work on OSX.

http://www.jave.de/

viralux <vir...@hotmail.com> kirjoitti Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:50:26 +0300:

> Anyone know where i can get a half decent Ascii art programme  or
> plugin (for photoshop CS)  for Mac OSX (10.4)   the only (non-Windows)
> ones ive found are ultra basic with no real controls   very
> frustrating !!

You can draw ASCII art in any text editor. The computer can't do it for
you. Any Photoshop plugins only produce image manipulations that resemble
ASCII art, but look crude and lack detail, not at all comparable to real
ASCII art.

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On Mar 28, 10:50 am, "viralux" <vir...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone know where i can get a half decent Ascii art programme  or
> plugin (for photoshop CS)  for Mac OSX (10.4)   the only (non-Windows)
> ones ive found are ultra basic with no real controls   very
> frustrating !!

This program isn't for Mac or Wintels....
But it's a fine FINE program that allows predigitalized/ prebinarized
images to be photoAsciiized... with a randomized grey scale so that
the same amount of grey pixelation doesn't reoccur over and over
again... this randomization process creates an additioinal layer of
'noise' that genuinely enhances the underlying detail...???
The program was written for the HP48 gx ( handheld programable
calculator...! )
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.hp48/browse_thread/thread/5c53a8aa4f182095/0b4e5d1405adde83?lnk=gst&q=ASCII+&rnum=10&hl=en#0b4e5d1405adde83

TranslucentAmoebae wrote:
> On Mar 28, 10:50 am, "viralux" <vir...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone know where i can get a half decent Ascii art programme  or
>> plugin (for photoshop CS)  for Mac OSX (10.4)   the only (non-Windows)
>> ones ive found are ultra basic with no real controls   very
>> frustrating !!
> 
> This program isn't for Mac or Wintels....
> But it's a fine FINE program that allows predigitalized/ prebinarized
> images to be photoAsciiized... with a randomized grey scale so that
> the same amount of grey pixelation doesn't reoccur over and over
> again... this randomization process creates an additioinal layer of
> 'noise' that genuinely enhances the underlying detail...???
> The program was written for the HP48 gx ( handheld programable
> calculator...! )
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.hp48/browse_thread/thread/5c53a8aa4f182095/0b4e5d1405adde83?lnk=gst&q=ASCII+&rnum=10&hl=en#0b4e5d1405adde83

I prefer Jave ( www.jave.de ) which is a photoshop-like drawing program for
making ascii-art. It's written in Java so it's multi-platform. I've never
tried it on a Mac but it sound run just as well as it does on Windows and Linux.

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