Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 10 May 1997.
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· 8 messages · 10 May 1997 - 2 Jul 1999
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01BC5415.18229FE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi does any one have a convert to convert any pictures or bmp to ascci please send if you have or know of any sites that do mousey ------=_NextPart_000_01BC5415.18229FE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head></head><BODY bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF"><p><font size=3D2 = color=3D"#000000" face=3D"Arial">Hi does any one have a convert to = convert any pictures or bmp to ascci<br>please send if you have or know = of any sites that do<br><br><br>mousey</p> </font></body></html> ------=_NextPart_000_01BC5415.18229FE0--
is there a tool to convert a grafik file (jpg, bmp, or whatever) to a ascii art ? thanx Markus
Markus Huber <max...@young-world.com> wrote in message news:377...@young-world.com... > is there a tool to convert a grafik file (jpg, bmp, or whatever) > to a ascii art ? > thanx > > Markus > > Yes, Markus, there are several. I have never really found the results all that impressive, so I don't use the things. There is a little Windows-based program called Email Effects that will convert a picture file, and also allow you to "freehand" some ascii text-art... sort of. You might try searching for it, or another one called Ascii Editor4. Good luck with them. You will probably still end up having to do a lot of work on the coversions, but you may find them helpful. JRO
JRO wrote: > > is there a tool to convert a grafik file (jpg, bmp, or whatever) > > to a ascii art ? > Yes, Markus, there are several. I have never really found the results all that > impressive, so I don't use the things. There is a little Windows-based program > called Email Effects that will convert a picture file, and also allow you to > "freehand" some ascii text-art... sort of. You might try searching for it, or > another one called Ascii Editor4. thx... i have found one for windows, but do you know, if there is a programm for linux, like this ? thanks Markus
Markus Huber wrote: > > JRO wrote: > > > > is there a tool to convert a grafik file (jpg, bmp, or whatever) > > > to a ascii art ? > > > Yes, Markus, there are several. I have never really found the results all that > > impressive, so I don't use the things. There is a little Windows-based program > > called Email Effects that will convert a picture file, and also allow you to > > "freehand" some ascii text-art... sort of. You might try searching for it, or > > another one called Ascii Editor4. > > thx... i have found one for windows, > but do you know, if there is a programm for linux, like this ? > Create a picture where one pixel will end up as one character in the "conversion" (a good size is max 80 characters wide and max 60 lines high). Try to make it as few colours as possible. You can use xv for this. Then save the picture in the "XPM" format (can also be done with xv) and open in a text editor (e.g. emacs). Remove all the junk from the bottom of the file and then use Search-and-Replace (Excape^% in emacs) to change from the default one-colour = one-character to some more appropriate characters. Then you'll probably need to do some hand editing too. Another method is to use the "HTML editor" in Netscape, include the picture as background image, set the font to monospaced, and try to draw a picture with the background image as a guide. Then copy-paste to emacs. (yes, this is a variation of the plastic bag method) -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
Markus Huber wrote: > > JRO wrote: > > > > is there a tool to convert a grafik file (jpg, bmp, or whatever) > > > to a ascii art ? > > > Yes, Markus, there are several. I have never really found the results all that > > impressive, so I don't use the things. There is a little Windows-based program > > called Email Effects that will convert a picture file, and also allow you to > > "freehand" some ascii text-art... sort of. You might try searching for it, or > > another one called Ascii Editor4. > > thx... i have found one for windows, > but do you know, if there is a programm for linux, like this ? > > thanks > Markus Meph or Martin Atkins posted one here a while ago that was done in Java with a page that opens in Netscape. It works fine under Linux. If you want I can send it to you as a gunziped tarball.
.----- On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:41:39 GMT, Markus Huber posted: |JRO wrote: | |> > is there a tool to convert a grafik file (jpg, bmp, or whatever) |> > to a ascii art ? | |> Yes, Markus, there are several. I have never really found the results all that |> impressive, so I don't use the things. There is a little Windows-based program |> called Email Effects that will convert a picture file, and also allow you to |> "freehand" some ascii text-art... sort of. You might try searching for it, or |> another one called Ascii Editor4. | |thx... i have found one for windows, |but do you know, if there is a programm for linux, like this ? | '-------------------------- Look for a program called 'gifscii' ... I don't have a URL, sorry. -Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
Martin DiViaio writes >>Markus Huber wrote: >> >JRO wrote: >> > >Markus Huber wrote: >> > > is there a tool to convert a grafik file (jpg, bmp, or whatever) >> > > to a ascii art ? >> >> > Yes, Markus, there are several. I have never really found the results all >that >> > impressive, so I don't use the things. There is a little Windows-based >program >> > called Email Effects that will convert a picture file, and also allow you to >> > "freehand" some ascii text-art... sort of. You might try searching for it, >or >> > another one called Ascii Editor4. >> >> thx... i have found one for windows, >> but do you know, if there is a programm for linux, like this ? >> >> thanks >> Markus > >Meph posted one here a while ago that was done in Java >with a page that opens in Netscape. It works fine under Linux. If you >want I can send it to you as a gunziped tarball. [][ hi ... if you have Netscape then IMO Meph's pic2ascii.htm webpage is the best solution ... it does gif and jpg files i have a copy of the source-code for Gifscii 2.2 which i got from the net somewhere or other ... with a pre-compiled a.out binary GIFSCII 2.2 Source Please direct all questions to the author: Paul Kline pk6...@acad.drake.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gifscii version 2.2 (c) 04/94 - Added edge detect toggle Gifscii version 2.1 (c) 03/94 - Moved platform-dependent code to top of source attempting source portability. - Much-needed c-code cleanup plus memory-related changes for MSDOS environment - provided by Phil Stracchino ala...@netcom.com - Added code skip extension/comment blocks to process gif89 format. - Added brightness & contrast controls - Added large/small increment panning - Improved small-image conversion - Improved 2-color gif handling - Changed command codes for more flexibility - Animated vt100 screen-reveals - Switch between full and reduced character sets - Error message improvements Gifscii version 1.0 (c) 02/15/94 Paul Kline pk6...@acad.drake.edu ascgif version 1.6 (c) May, 1992 John Ferrell jwf...@juts.ccc.amdahl.com This program converts graphics stored in gif format to ascii text Syntax is 'gifscii filename columns lines' If run without command-line arguments, program will ask for them. if you have difficulty finding them on the net then mail me and i'll pass them onto you [][ see yuz [][ colin -- . /\_/\ ( () /_ / /\) _/ /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_ :( a a( CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk ' \___") <---<< --=oOo=-- >>--->
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