Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 9 Oct 2003.
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ATI Catalyst 3.8 renders ascii-art ! :)
alt.ascii-art
· 4 messages · 9 Oct 2003 - 9 Oct 2003
And so does every other videodriver on the planet .. but this new catalyst is special. For the coolness of it , the devolper team have added the option to select between a number of pixelshaders that will be applied to any 3D scene. For OpenGL you can (amongst others) choose ASCII - And guess what .. it renders the entire scene in ascii-art :) I just beat Xaero (the masterbot) in Quake 3 while running the ASCII shader :) It was . . weird .. intriguing .. and hard since you loose quite a lot of detail this way. It would be more playable if their ASCII conversion was better, it has a lot of room for improvement. Heh .. they should have consulted Markus Gebhard *g*
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:40:11 +0200, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote: > For OpenGL you can (amongst others) choose ASCII - And guess what .. > it renders the entire scene in ascii-art :) > > I just beat Xaero (the masterbot) in Quake 3 while running the ASCII > shader :) It was . . weird .. intriguing .. and hard since you loose > quite a lot of detail this way. Screenshots? -- When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In message <8a3hb.26$_U....@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> John Fettig <jfe...@NOuiuc.SPAMedu.invalid> wrote: >On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:40:11 +0200, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote: >> For OpenGL you can (amongst others) choose ASCII - And guess what .. >> it renders the entire scene in ascii-art :) >> >> I just beat Xaero (the masterbot) in Quake 3 while running the ASCII >> shader :) It was . . weird .. intriguing .. and hard since you loose >> quite a lot of detail this way. > >Screenshots? Yes, please post them!
>>I just beat Xaero (the masterbot) in Quake 3 while running the ASCII >>shader :) It was . . weird .. intriguing .. and hard since you loose >>quite a lot of detail this way. > Screenshots? OK .. I posted one in alt.binaries.pictures.ascii for you. I think it's easy to see that the quality of its conversion isn't exactly stellar. But it's extremely fast .. I can't feel any slowdown when using a smartshader effect.
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