Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 21 Aug 2005.
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· 9 messages · 21 Aug 2005 - 31 Aug 2005
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For the curious that think "oh, he just loaded this into aview and
copy/pasted", this is what I actually did:
* Loaded <http://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy37.gif> into The GIMP.
* Cropped down to just the words.
* Took out the rainbow background (that took a good 5-10 minutes, even
with The GIMP's selection tools.
* First attempt to get something usable with aview fails.
* Reload into The Gimp.
* Crop a bit tighter (I had left black space the first time).
* Resize a bit vertically to get better detail (otherwise the "B" and
"D" didn't look right).
* Second attempt using aview gets something a bit more usable.
* Touched up using gvim, including re-drawing the bottom line which
looked terrible straight out of aview.
Total time: about 30 minutes.
I probably should have made it a couple of columns narrower, as this is
a full 80 columns.
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|___/_|\_\__\_\ |*| Houston, TX, USA
"Shawn K. Quinn" <skq...@speakeasy.net> wrote: > > > _J"^{s ===--:_\ .-'':. -+====x. _#Xs XS2SS > )X' Xs =| ==. = :: ==. =: :`-{X, .SoS22 > ]o( S2 =| :=. := : ==. :=: )2( |^^^#X > _Se S2 _ __ . __ =| :=. :=: ==. -== )r - <( > JS( So "#r/{X _J']L "1X`/{X =| .:/ ===. ==. =;. _x[ J` >.SS( _S2 _Se` X2 .X( xe o(- ]2 ====:.. -====: ==. ==: {S2( X >]N2 ]2r )n( :S do _X _Xc 22 =| :=\ -===` ==. =;` -X( _[ >)OO S2' Jo` ]n oS=! ]n( =Sr =| :== :== ==. == {[ ]( >]M( )o7 2e )S`)o[ )o ]o` =| :== : == ==. :=: %% S > 3( .S" X( _X' -Sc / Xr u7 . =| :=/ -. =: ==. =; % % .2 > -S, _J^ ]oc_2' 1Xs/ <2[ Xo/ _=====:` :....: :=====^^ S2;_' ** [ > ""' ]o ""` ** - > Xr >######### _2( #############################################################SKQ# > > >For the curious that think "oh, he just loaded this into aview and >copy/pasted", this is what I actually did: > >* Loaded <http://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy37.gif> into The GIMP. >* Cropped down to just the words. >* Took out the rainbow background (that took a good 5-10 minutes, even > with The GIMP's selection tools. >* First attempt to get something usable with aview fails. >* Reload into The Gimp. >* Crop a bit tighter (I had left black space the first time). >* Resize a bit vertically to get better detail (otherwise the "B" and > "D" didn't look right). >* Second attempt using aview gets something a bit more usable. >* Touched up using gvim, including re-drawing the bottom line which > looked terrible straight out of aview. > >Total time: about 30 minutes. > >I probably should have made it a couple of columns narrower, as this is >a full 80 columns. So you did just convert it. Fuck offfffffffffffffff.
begin quotation from Bateau <Gam...@work.stomping.aza> in message <kjb...@4ax.com> posted at 2005-08-22T10:54 > "Shawn K. Quinn" <skq...@speakeasy.net> wrote: >>Total time: about 30 minutes. [...] > So you did just convert it. Fuck offfffffffffffffff. So half an hour of work to get it to the point where I could actually get something usable that still needed hacking on in vim is nothing to you? Let's see you make a better one, then. -- ___ _ _____ |*| / __| |/ / _ \ |*| Shawn K. Quinn \__ \ ' < (_) | |*| skq...@speakeasy.net |___/_|\_\__\_\ |*| Houston, TX, USA
_.-In alt.ascii-art, Shawn K. Quinn wrote the following -._ >> So you did just convert it. Fuck offfffffffffffffff. > > So half an hour of work to get it to the point where I could actually > get something usable that still needed hacking on in vim is nothing to > you? I can see your work. I would try to clean up the Open part a touch but the rest looks nice. > Let's see you make a better one, then. He just posts here, which is different from contributing. -- .-')) fauxascii.com ('-. | It's a damn poor mind that ' ..- .:" ) ( ":. -.. ' | can only think of one way to ((,,_;'.;' UIN=66618055 ';. ';_,,)) | spell a word. ((_.YIM=Faux_Pseudo :._)) | - Andrew Jackson
"Shawn K. Quinn" <skq...@speakeasy.net> wrote: >begin quotation > from Bateau <Gam...@work.stomping.aza> > in message <kjb...@4ax.com> > posted at 2005-08-22T10:54 >> "Shawn K. Quinn" <skq...@speakeasy.net> wrote: >>>Total time: about 30 minutes. >[...] >> So you did just convert it. Fuck offfffffffffffffff. > >So half an hour of work to get it to the point where I could actually >get something usable that still needed hacking on in vim is nothing to >you? LOL All you did was this: >######### _2( #############################################################SKQ# All that photoshop shit and fiddling with conversion settings was a time sink but it wasn't art or skill. >Let's see you make a better one, then. Why? It's crap and no one will ever use it.
begin quotation from Bateau <Gam...@work.stomping.aza> in message <cno...@4ax.com> posted at 2005-08-23T08:54 > "Shawn K. Quinn" <skq...@speakeasy.net> wrote: >> So half an hour of work to get it to the point where I could actually >> get something usable that still needed hacking on in vim is nothing to >> you? > > LOL All you did was this: > >> ######### _2( #############################################################SKQ# Wrong. I did much, much more than that. > All that photoshop shit I never used Photoshop. I used The GIMP. Learn to read. > and fiddling with conversion settings was a time sink but it wasn't > art or skill. Again, let's see you make a better one. -- ___ _ _____ |*| / __| |/ / _ \ |*| Shawn K. Quinn \__ \ ' < (_) | |*| skq...@speakeasy.net |___/_|\_\__\_\ |*| Houston, TX, USA
begin quotation from Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@gmail.com> in message <9fjOe.23323$Ie.7621@lakeread03> posted at 2005-08-22T12:08 > _.-In alt.ascii-art, Shawn K. Quinn wrote the following -._ [Bateau wrote:] >>> So you did just convert it. Fuck offfffffffffffffff. >> >> So half an hour of work to get it to the point where I could actually >> get something usable that still needed hacking on in vim is nothing to >> you? > > I can see your work. I would try to clean up the Open part a touch > but the rest looks nice. Cool. I'm considering doing another one by chopping off the version number and then adding the version number as appropriate using e.g. Figlet. -- ___ _ _____ |*| / __| |/ / _ \ |*| Shawn K. Quinn \__ \ ' < (_) | |*| skq...@speakeasy.net |___/_|\_\__\_\ |*| Houston, TX, USA
"Shawn K. Quinn" <skq...@speakeasy.net> wrote: >begin quotation > from Bateau <Gam...@work.stomping.aza> > in message <cno...@4ax.com> > posted at 2005-08-23T08:54 >> "Shawn K. Quinn" <skq...@speakeasy.net> wrote: >>> So half an hour of work to get it to the point where I could actually >>> get something usable that still needed hacking on in vim is nothing to >>> you? >> >> LOL All you did was this: >> >>> ######### _2( #############################################################SKQ# > >Wrong. I did much, much more than that. > >> All that photoshop shit > >I never used Photoshop. I used The GIMP. Learn to read. It's a verb not exclusive to Adobe Photoshop. >> and fiddling with conversion settings was a time sink but it wasn't >> art or skill. > >Again, let's see you make a better one. I could but it's a huge waste of time.
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > > _J"^{s ===--:_\ .-'':. -+====x. _#Xs XS2SS > )X' Xs =| ==. = :: ==. =: :`-{X, .SoS22 > ]o( S2 =| :=. := : ==. :=: )2( |^^^#X > _Se S2 _ __ . __ =| :=. :=: ==. -== )r - <( > JS( So "#r/{X _J']L "1X`/{X =| .:/ ===. ==. =;. _x[ J` > .SS( _S2 _Se` X2 .X( xe o(- ]2 ====:.. -====: ==. ==: {S2( X > ]N2 ]2r )n( :S do _X _Xc 22 =| :=\ -===` ==. =;` -X( _[ > )OO S2' Jo` ]n oS=! ]n( =Sr =| :== :== ==. == {[ ]( > ]M( )o7 2e )S`)o[ )o ]o` =| :== : == ==. :=: %% S > 3( .S" X( _X' -Sc / Xr u7 . =| :=/ -. =: ==. =; % % .2 > -S, _J^ ]oc_2' 1Xs/ <2[ Xo/ _=====:` :....: :=====^^ S2;_' ** [ > ""' ]o ""` ** - > Xr > ######### _2( #############################################################SKQ# > > > For the curious that think "oh, he just loaded this into aview and > copy/pasted", this is what I actually did: > > * Loaded <http://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy37.gif> into The GIMP. > * Cropped down to just the words. > * Took out the rainbow background (that took a good 5-10 minutes, even > with The GIMP's selection tools. > * First attempt to get something usable with aview fails. > * Reload into The Gimp. > * Crop a bit tighter (I had left black space the first time). > * Resize a bit vertically to get better detail (otherwise the "B" and > "D" didn't look right). > * Second attempt using aview gets something a bit more usable. > * Touched up using gvim, including re-drawing the bottom line which > looked terrible straight out of aview. > > Total time: about 30 minutes. > > I probably should have made it a couple of columns narrower, as this is > a full 80 columns. 1) Cropped using Irfanview 2) converted using Jave 3) Quick cleanup using Jave's watermark feature to make sure it came out close to the original ..--. .------. ,.--.-----.._ .-. ,----. ,' ,-. \ _ ___ ___ ___ __'| |) )( `:`\|\ |"\ `. :-. )|.--./ / / / || .. )/, _)`, '. )| '< < `. `.\| | | | ::< `' // ( (_.' / //_/ /| -' / // /[| | | )|.'-, )| |_,'_' `.) .// _`-._.-' / |--'_`--'''-':`-'::__::-' |':::' :__::-' _ :.:'[_,/__ '========/__|====================================================' Time : About 15 minutes. Add another 30 to that and I think I could rediddle it to perfection. I just wanted to prove a point .. though I have forgot what it was now ..oh nevermind .. enjoy the picture - Rediddle further if you want
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