Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 31 Jul 1998.
Ascii-art resizer!
alt.ascii-art
· 36 messages · 31 Jul 1998 - 16 Aug 1998
I needed to slim down an ascii-art I got somewhere so that I could use it,
because it was 27 lines. I'm not too good with ascii-art, so I just wrote
a program to scale down (or up) an ascii-art... example:
ooo$$$$$$$$$$$$oooo
oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o
oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o o$ $$ o$
o $ oo o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o $$ $$ $$o$
oo $ $ "$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$o $$$o$$o$
"$$$$$$o$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$o $$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ """$$$
"$$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$
$$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$o
o$$" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$o
$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$""$$$$$$ooooo$$$$o
o$$$oooo$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$"$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$""""""""
"""" $$$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$$
"$$$o """$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$"$$" $$$
$$$o "$$""$$$$$$"""" o$$$
$$$$o oo o$$$"
"$$$$o o$$$$$$o"$$$$o o$$$$
"$$$$$oo ""$$$$o$$$$$o o$$$$""
""$$$$$oooo "$$$o$$$$$$$$$"""
""$$$$$$$oo $$$$$$$$$$
""""$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$"
"$$$""""
when shrunken to 75% becomes:
o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$ $ o$
oo$ $"$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$o$o$
"$$$$o$ o$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$o $$$$$$
$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
"$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$
$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$o
o$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$
$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$$oooo$$$o
$$$$$$"$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$""""""
""" $$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$
"$$o ""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" $$$
$$o oo o$$"
"$$$o o$$$$o"$$$o o$$$
"$$$$ooo $$$o$$$$$$"""
""$$$$$o $$$$$$$$
"""$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$
"$$"""
Neat, eh? it works like an image scaler, though, so you don't gain detail
as you increase size, and as you decrease size you lose some of the
letters.
Dos:
http://www.bignet.net/~thekid39/resize.exe
Unix (C source):
http://www.bignet.net/~thekid39/resize.c
to run:
resize percent < input file > output file
sTiLe <sti...@mindless.com> wrote: >I needed to slim down an ascii-art I got somewhere so that I could use it, >because it was 27 lines. I'm not too good with ascii-art, so I just wrote >a program to scale down (or up) an ascii-art... example: > ooo$$$$$$$$$$$$oooo > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o o$ $$ o$ > o $ oo o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o $$ $$ $$o$ > oo $ $ "$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$o $$$o$$o$ > "$$$$$$o$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$o $$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ """$$$ > "$$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$ > $$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$o > o$$" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$o > $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$""$$$$$$ooooo$$$$o > o$$$oooo$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$"$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$"""""""" > """" $$$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$$ > "$$$o """$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$"$$" $$$ > $$$o "$$""$$$$$$"""" o$$$ > $$$$o oo o$$$" > "$$$$o o$$$$$$o"$$$$o o$$$$ > "$$$$$oo ""$$$$o$$$$$o o$$$$"" > ""$$$$$oooo "$$$o$$$$$$$$$""" > ""$$$$$$$oo $$$$$$$$$$ > """"$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$$$" > "$$$"""" >when shrunken to 75% becomes: > o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$ $ o$ >oo$ $"$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$o$o$ >"$$$$o$ o$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$o $$$$$$ > $$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > "$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$ > $$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$o > o$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ > $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$$oooo$$$o > $$$$$$"$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$"""""" > """ $$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$ > "$$o ""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" $$$ > $$o oo o$$" > "$$$o o$$$$o"$$$o o$$$ > "$$$$ooo $$$o$$$$$$""" > ""$$$$$o $$$$$$$$ > """$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$ > "$$""" >Neat, eh? it works like an image scaler, though, so you don't gain detail >as you increase size, and as you decrease size you lose some of the >letters. >Dos: >http://www.bignet.net/~thekid39/resize.exe >Unix (C source): >http://www.bignet.net/~thekid39/resize.c >to run: >resize percent < input file > output file Neat indeed, thanks, that is a brilliant little proggie and it works well. 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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:48:48 -0400, sTiLe <sti...@mindless.com> wrote: >I needed to slim down an ascii-art I got somewhere so that I could use it, >because it was 27 lines. I'm not too good with ascii-art, so I just wrote >a program to scale down (or up) an ascii-art... example: > ooo$$$$$$$$$$$$oooo > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o o$ $$ o$ > o $ oo o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o $$ $$ $$o$ > oo $ $ "$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$o $$$o$$o$ > "$$$$$$o$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$o $$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ """$$$ > "$$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$ > [SNIP] >when shrunken to 75% becomes: > o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$ $ o$ >oo$ $"$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$o$o$ >"$$$$o$ o$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$o $$$$$$ > $$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > "$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$ > [SNIP] >Neat, eh? it works like an image scaler, though, so you don't gain detail >as you increase size, and as you decrease size you lose some of the >letters. I'm really sorry but this is one of the poorest (and pointless) programs I have ever seen relating to ASCII. If it re-sampled I could see a vague use but, as is, it simply removes columns and rows of characters.!? Besides, I think this form of "ASCII art" (and I use the term loosely) is utter crap and should be refered to as something else (like: "ANSI art" without any ANSI!). (or talent!) :nathaN P.S. no dis-respect to sTiLe intended.
> > I'm really sorry but this is one of the poorest (and pointless) > programs I have ever seen relating to ASCII. If it re-sampled I could > see a vague use but, as is, it simply removes columns and rows of > characters.!? That's the exact same way your little gif-scalers work, my friend. Say you ant it double sized, it just doubles every pixel and doubles every row. If you want it half size it gets every other pixel of every other row. My program does just that. What's resampling anyway? > Besides, I think this form of "ASCII art" (and I use the term loosely) > is utter crap and should be refered to as something else (like: "ANSI > art" without any ANSI!). (or talent!) You'll note that I mentioned the ascii art there wasn't mine to start with, I'm just not good enough to resize it myself, so I wrote this little thing. > P.S. no dis-respect to sTiLe intended. Oh. Hmm, just disrespect to the program and how I wrote it? ;)
Naughty <nat...@no2spam.virtek.com> wrote: >On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:48:48 -0400, sTiLe <sti...@mindless.com> wrote: >>Neat, eh? it works like an image scaler, though, so you don't gain detail >>as you increase size, and as you decrease size you lose some of the >>letters. >I'm really sorry but this is one of the poorest (and pointless) >programs I have ever seen relating to ASCII. If it re-sampled I could >see a vague use but, as is, it simply removes columns and rows of >characters.!? >Besides, I think this form of "ASCII art" (and I use the term loosely) >is utter crap and should be refered to as something else (like: "ANSI >art" without any ANSI!). (or talent!) >:nathaN >P.S. no dis-respect to sTiLe intended. Oooooh! What an old "Misery Guts" ! What have you got to offer that's better. I'm genuinely interested to see it. ----- / \ ) | :==================: " )/ /|| Waiting for || )_ /* / || || * | || Naughty's prog || (=====~*~======) \ || || 0 \ / 0 ==================== // (====*====) || ............. / \ .......... // * || :\ ############ \ || (=====*======) || : --------------------------------- V * V : | * |__________|| :::::::::: | o (======*=======) o \ | | || ....... | \\ * || --------------------------------- 8 || (=====*======) // 8 V * V --------------------------------- 8 =|=; (==/ * \==) =|= \ ########################### \ / ! \ _ * __ / | \ \ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \ ! ! ! (__/ \__) ! ! ! \ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \ 0 \ \V/ / 0 \________________________________\ () \o o/ () ********************************* () () -After/Targon (Ed Wisniewski)- Bye,
� Er.. after being explained re-sampling, I don't honestly see just how to � do it for ascii. You can't just "average" text together... You can merge some letters--"l" and a hyphen can make a "t" in some fonts.
On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Nate / DAC wrote: > > Er.. after being explained re-sampling, I don't honestly see just how to > > do it for ascii. You can't just "average" text together... What I meant by this was, say you're going to resize it to 33%%.. you're going to have some awful strange stuff going on with a third of this one and half of that one... > > Sure you can... > > A good program might take a 'b' and a double quote '"' and render them > together as the number '8' or a capital 'B', should this need arise. > > Or, perhaps a fes lines of 8's might be redone as: > > 88888888 oooooo > 88888888 resized: 888888 or 50%: 8888 or 25%: oo > 88888888 75% 888888 8888 "" > 88888888 """""" > > Ok, prolly not the best examples. The best way might be for the program to > turn the ASCII artwork into a bitmap (perhaps, just a dump of the font > shapes and such so that the bitmap looks identical to the ASCII version), > re-scale the bitmap using the various averaging and anti-aliasing techniques > people use, and then converted back to an ASCII. That sounds like the way to go, were I to want to do resampling. Perhaps it'd help ascii pictures out some, but all I wanted was a little quickie program, and that's what I got. Take it or leave it :) I don't have time to mess with the bitmap stuff at all :)
Naughty wrote about sTiLes resizer ap: >I'm really sorry but this is one of the poorest (and pointless) >programs I have ever seen relating to ASCII. What excellent ASCII progs are you talking about? >If it re-sampled I could see a vague use but, as is, it simply removes columns and rows of >characters.!? Do you know of an ASCII-art prog which re-samples to your satisfaction? Which ASCII-art prog resizes? Do you know of an ASCII-art prog which re-samples _and_ re-sizes, perhaps? >Besides, I think this form of "ASCII art" (and I use the term loosely) >is utter crap and should be refered to as something else (like: "ANSI >art" without any ANSI!). (or talent!) <p class="utter_crap"> My granddad was some sort of a sysop on a mainframe. They made pretty neat pics of Apollo, Mona Lisa and Playboy bunnies, back then. I used to stick print outs of those to my bedroom wall... When ANSI was released my dad made full-color (wow!) log-in screens for his BBS. Now I draw sigs to put in my mails. Then there was you... </p class="utter_crap"> >:nathaN >P.S. no dis-respect to sTiLe intended. -- no dis intended mic
On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, miK wrote: > What excellent ASCII progs are you talking about? http://www.bignet.net/~thekid39/resize.exe (or resize.c for unix) I wrote it cause I needed it and thought this group might like it. usage: resize percentage < input file > output file > Do you know of an ASCII-art prog which re-samples to your satisfaction? > Do you know of an ASCII-art prog which re-samples _and_ re-sizes, perhaps? Er.. after being explained re-sampling, I don't honestly see just how to do it for ascii. You can't just "average" text together...
> Er.. after being explained re-sampling, I don't honestly see just how to > do it for ascii. You can't just "average" text together... Sure you can... A good program might take a 'b' and a double quote '"' and render them together as the number '8' or a capital 'B', should this need arise. Or, perhaps a fes lines of 8's might be redone as: 88888888 oooooo 88888888 resized: 888888 or 50%: 8888 or 25%: oo 88888888 75% 888888 8888 "" 88888888 """""" Ok, prolly not the best examples. The best way might be for the program to turn the ASCII artwork into a bitmap (perhaps, just a dump of the font shapes and such so that the bitmap looks identical to the ASCII version), re-scale the bitmap using the various averaging and anti-aliasing techniques people use, and then converted back to an ASCII. The conversion back to ASCII would be the hardest I guess. Perhaps such a program could create a directly scaled version as in your original, and create an ASCII-to-bitmap-to-ASCII version, and somehow use the first as sort of a "layout" map.. __________________________________________________________________ | . . | * http://www2.southwind.net/~natedac * | | _ _ _|_ _ _| _ _ |----------------------------------------| | |/ \ _| | /_)/ | _|/ | GCS d- s++:++ a-- C++ UB>++ L>+ E- W++ | | | |(_| \_ \_ \_|(_|\_ | N++ w--- K- M- V- PS PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5 | | at southwind dot net | X+ R tv-(+) b+ DI(+) D+ G e+ h+ r- y- | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.----- On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:08:21 -0400, sTiLe posted: | |That's the exact same way your little gif-scalers work, my friend. Say you |ant it double sized, it just doubles every pixel and doubles every row. If |you want it half size it gets every other pixel of every other row. My |program does just that. What's resampling anyway? | '---------------------------- Resampling is when a pixel colour (or in this case, a character) is chosen that is midway between the pixels that are removed and the pixels that are kept, so that a lot of the detail is retained. Lots of your big paint proggies can do this, like Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop. |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
.----- On Sat, 1 Aug 1998 05:18:15 -0500, Nate/DAC posted:
|Ok, prolly not the best examples. The best way might be for the program to
|turn the ASCII artwork into a bitmap (perhaps, just a dump of the font
|shapes and such so that the bitmap looks identical to the ASCII version),
|re-scale the bitmap using the various averaging and anti-aliasing techniques
|people use, and then converted back to an ASCII.
|
|The conversion back to ASCII would be the hardest I guess. Perhaps such a
|program could create a directly scaled version as in your original, and
|create an ASCII-to-bitmap-to-ASCII version, and somehow use the first as
|sort of a "layout" map..
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X# * XX ## #*
##X #* #X #*
*##*X## X#* #X The Dutch Dude
X###X #X* #*
#X X#
X###X*
**
and feed into ASC2PIC (By Me <g>)
Take screengrab of it and load into Paint Shop Pro 5... resampled to 50% of the
original and then ASCIIfied using BMP2ASC:
:++;
:+++:
++++;
:+ ++++;+
;+; +;++;+
; :++ +++;+;
;+ :;;: :++; ;++++
++: :++++++;;+ + :++;
+++ :+; +;: + :: ++
+;+++; ; ++ :::++++ ++:
+; ;; :+++; +++++; ;+ :+;:
++;+: : ++: :+ ; ;+ ;;;:
;+;;+: ;:; :++;;+; ;+ ;+ +:+
+++++: +:+: +;:;: +; +; ;+ +
: :+: ++: :++ ;+: :++:++ ;;
;+;;;::: +:++++++++: ;++++ ++:: ;+
:++: :::+; ;: :;: :+++++ :+;;++:
;; +: :; +++++::+;;: ++
+; :: :+ :; ;+++ ++ :;:++++
+;:++: ;+; +; ;++++ ;+ :+; +++; +++
+;:+++ +++; ;; ;++++; :;;;; :+;;+ :+;
;+ ++; ;++; ;; ;++++; +++++ ++; :++; +;
;+ : ;+ +; ;+++++; +++++ +;;+: :+
++: :+ ++++++; +++++: :+ ;++++:
+++;;:::;;++; ++++++; :++++: :+ :::
:;++++++;:: +++++: ++++ ++
+: ++++ :;: ++
+: :;;: ;: :+;
+: ;:;+;;;;+;
;+ +: ::+++
;+: : :+ : ;+
+;+;;: :++ ;++;+
+ ;++ ; ++++;: ++::;
:+ ;+: ;+ ;+++;:++; ++
+; ;++; ;++++; +;;++;+::
+; ;+ :+ :+; :++: ++
+ :+: :+ +;
:+ + +; ++
;+ ;++ +: ;+
:+ :+: +: ;+
;++; +: +; ;+:
+; + +;;+:
;+ : ;; ++ +:
++; +: +; +:
:++:;++ ;+: +; =;= /:==; /:;=
;+++; +;: +:
+; ;+
;+++;:
::
I think the resolution I had my DOS window at when I took the screengrab
affected the resize slightly, but you can make out the cow after resize ok so
now all we need is a program that can do this! I might have a go, I`ve already
made the first part of it (Put ascii art on screen as picture) in my ASC2PIC
program.
|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@--
| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
Spunk1111 <spu...@aol.com> wrote: >BTW, just how well does it work on the line style ASCII? (I saw Veronica's >mutation!) >I'm curious as to how it would work on, let's say the cockatoo >on my main index page? Not too good on reductions because it leaves gaps and spaces. It may have a use in very slight enlargements up to 110%. Here's Veronica again resized to 75% : __-----._ ' - - . . / / . `\ \ | `. \ | ` | |><@ ) <@>|` | / || | ((_) | | `` \ | / `--' / `. " . // || `.__.-' | \ /' / | \ ` \ /' --._ \ /. // `. ' | ` .' `. .' `. .' ` / \ / .' |`. . . -. .- J . `. / .' (@ ) ( @) | `. \ \ .' \ / \ `. / \ \ `.___.' `____.' / / \ F J / / \ | | / \ \ | | / / \ | | / / \ `_ F J _' \ J (@ / / F . \. J | ./ \. | \_. ._/ @@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@ @ F | J F | J J | F J | F F | J | ^ | J J F J | F | J | | | | F F F J F F \J F / \ | | | | | | J /F J \ / F F J F F J | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | J J F F J F J F J F J | | | | | | | | | | | | ( | | ) J _ J _ F / __ _/ \ // _ _ _(__(_\__/ \\__(_))_)) ndher arethesadal: | | | | F. _J F_ 'J J .`./_ J _ .'' F / __`./ \ // V.' _ ========= ========= > -joan > (who has no disk space to download it) Huh? resize.exe is tiny...a mere 24004 bytes! I have now used it quite a bit and it seems most useful for reductions in the 75-95% range. A big snag is that it munges/trims any words included or associated with the picture so they have to edited later. It is best with the big solid style pics using mainly just one character like the '$' in this smiley face: Original: ooo$$$$$$$$$$$$oooo oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o o$ $$ o$ o $ oo o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o $$ $$ $$o$ oo $ $ "$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$o $$$o$$o$ "$$$$$$o$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$o $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ """$$$ "$$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$ $$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$o o$$" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$o $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$""$$$$$$ooooo$$$$o o$$$oooo$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$"$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$"""""""" """" $$$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$$ "$$$o """$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$"$$" $$$ $$$o "$$""$$$$$$"""" o$$$ $$$$o oo o$$$" "$$$$o o$$$$$$o"$$$$o o$$$$ "$$$$$oo ""$$$$o$$$$$o o$$$$"" ""$$$$$oooo "$$$o$$$$$$$$$""" ""$$$$$$$oo $$$$$$$$$$ """"$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$" "$$$"""" 75% reduction: o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$ $ o$ oo$ $"$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$o$o$ "$$$$o$ o$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$o $$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$ $$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$o o$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$$oooo$$$o $$$$$$"$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$"""""" """ $$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$ "$$o ""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" $$$ $$o oo o$$" "$$$o o$$$$o"$$$o o$$$ "$$$$ooo $$$o$$$$$$""" ""$$$$$o $$$$$$$$ """$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ "$$""" Not quite so good but reasonable on the more detailed character of NEUMAN and you can see what happens to the words in the Caption: Original NEUMAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .M .:AWMMM: .:AMMMMMHIIIHMMM. .... .AMMMMMMMMMMMHHHMHHMMMML:AMF" .:MMMMMLAMMMMMMMHMMMMMMHHIHHIIIHMMMML. "WMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMH:::::HMMMMMMHII:. .AMMMMMMMHHHMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHMMMMMMMMMAMMMHHHHL. .MMMMMMMMMMHHMMMMMMMMHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMHTWMHHHHHML .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHHHHHMHMMHHHHIII:::HMHHHHMM. .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHHMHHHHHHIIIIIIIIHMHHHHHM. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHMMHHHHHIIIHHH::IIHHII:::::IHHHHHHHL "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHIIIHMMMMHHIIHHLI::IIHHHHIIIHHHHHHHHML .MMMMMMMMMMMMMM"WMMMHHHMMMMMMMMMMMLHHHMMMMMMHHHHHHHHHHH .MMMMMMMMMMMWWMW ""YYHMMMMMMMMMMMMF""HMMMMMMMMMHHHHHHHH. .MMMMMMMMMM W" V W"WMMMMMHHHHHHHHHH "MMMMMMMMMM". "WHHHMH"HHHHHHL MMMMMMMMMMF . IHHHHH. MMMMMMMMMM . . HHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMF. . . . HHHHHHH. MMMMMMMMM . ,AWMMMMML. .. . . HHHHHHH. :MMMMMMMMM". . F"' 'WM:. ,::HMMA, . . HHHHMMM :MMMMMMMMF. . ." WH.. AMM"' " . . HHHMMMM MMMMMMMM . . ,;AAAHHWL".. .:' HHHHHHH MMMMMMM:. . . -MK"OTO L :I.. ...:HMA-. "HHHHHH ,:IIIILTMMMMI::. L,,,,. ::I.. .. K"OTO"ML 'HHHHHH LHT::LIIIIMMI::. . '""'.IHH:.. .. :.,,,, ' HMMMH: HLI' "IIITMII::. . .IIII. . '"""" ' MMMFT:::. HML:::WMIINMHI:::.. . .:I. . . . . ' .M"'.....I. "HWHINWI:.'.HHII::.. .HHI .II. . . . . :M.',, ..I: "MLI"ML': :HHII::... MMHHL ::::: . :.. .'.'.'HHTML.II: "MMLIHHWL:IHHII::....:I:" :MHHWHI:...:W,," '':::. ..' ":.HH:II: "MMMHITIIHHH:::::IWF" """T99"' '"" '.':II:..'.'..' I'.HHIHI' YMMHII:IHHHH:::IT.. . . ... . . ''THHI::.'.' .;H.""."H" HHII:MHHI"::IWWL . . . . . HH"HHHIIHHH":HWWM" """ MMHI::HY""ML, ... . .. :" :HIIIIIILTMH" MMHI:.' 'HL,,,,,,,,..,,,......,:" . ''::HH "HWW 'MMH:.. . 'MMML,: """MM""""MMM" .'.IH'"MH" "MMHL.. .. "MMMMMML,MM,HMMMF . .IHM" "MMHHL .. "MMMMMMMMMMMM" . . '.IHF' 'MMMML .. "MMMMMMMM" . .'HMF HHHMML. .'MMF" IHHHHHMML. .'HMF" HHHHHHITMML. .'IF.. "HHHHHHIITML,. ..:F... 'HHHHHHHHHMMWWWWWW::"...... HHHHHHHMMMMMMF"'........ HHHHHHHHHH............ HHHHHHHH........... HHHHIII.......... HHIII.......... HII......... "H........ ...... W H A T - - M E W O R R Y ? ALFRED E. NEUMAN 75% reduction: .M .:WMMM ... .AMMMMMMMMHHMHHMMM:AM" :MMMMAMMMMMHMMMMMHIHHIIHMMM. "WMMMMMMMMMMMMMH::::HMMMMHI:. .MMMMMMMHHMMMMMMHHHMMMMMMMMMMTWMHHHML .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHHHMHMHHHII:::MHHHMM .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHMHHHHIIIIIIHMHHHH. MMMMMMMMMMMMMHMMHHHHIIHH::IHHI::::IHHHHHL .MMMMMMMMMM"WMMHHMMMMMMMMMLHHMMMMHHHHHHHHH .MMMMMMMMWWM "YYMMMMMMMMMM""HMMMMMMHHHHHH. MMMMMMMM " V "WMMMMHHHHHHH MMMMMMMM IHHHH. MMMMMMMM. HHHHHH MMMMMMM ,WMMMML .. . HHHHHH :MMMMMMM". . F" 'WM. ,:HMM, . . HHHMMM :MMMMMMF. . " W.. MM" " . HHHMMM MMMMMM. .. -M"OT L I.. ..:HA-. "HHHHH :IIILMMMM::. L,,, :I.. . K"TO"L 'HHHHH HT:LIIIMM::.. '"".IH:.. . :.,,, ' HMMH: ML::WIINMI::... :I. . . ' .M"....I. HWINW:.'.HII:. .HI .I. . . . .:M.,, .I: "MI"M': :HII:.. MMHL :::: . .. .'..'HTMLII: "MMHITIHHH:::IW" ""T99' '" '.:II..''.. I.HHHI' YMHIIIHHH::IT. .. ... . . 'THI::'.'.;H"".H" HHIIMHH":IWW . . . . H"HHIIHH":WWM MMI:' 'H,,,,,,..,,.....," .'':HH HWW 'MH:. . 'MML: ""MM"""MM" .'.H'"H" "MH.. .."MMMMM,MM,MMM . .IH" "MHHL . "MMMMMMMMM" . 'IHF HHHML. .MMF HHHHMM. 'HM" HHHHITML. .'F.. 'HHHHHHHMWWWWW::..... HHHHHMMMMM"'...... HHHHHHH......... HHHII........ HII........ HII....... .... LFRD E NEUAN 50% reduction: :WM: .. AMMMMMHHHMMLAF WMMMMMMMMM:::MMMHI. .MMMMMHMMMMHHMMMMMMHWHHHL MMMMMMMMMMMHHHMHHHIIIIMHHM MMMMMMMMHIHMMHIHI:IHHIHHHHM .MMMMMWM "YMMMMMMF"MMMMMHHHH "MMMMM. "HHHHHHL MMMMM . HHH MMMMM. ,WMML . . HHH. :MMMM. " W. AM' " . HMM MMM: M"T I. .:M- HHH T:IIMI: '".H:. .:,, HMH L:WINH::.. :. . .. ' M'..I MIM' HI:.. MH :: .:. '''HM.I "MHTIH:::W" "T9' " ''I:...' 'HII HI:HI:IW . HHHIH"HW" MH:' H,,,,.,,...: ':H"W MH. ."MMM,MHMF IM MML ."MMMM . .HF HHHM. .HF HHHITL. .:.. HHHHMMM".... HHHH..... HI..... H.... LRDE EMN I will find it particularly useful for pictures posted with more than 76 columns where a reduction of between 90-98% is often sufficient to reduce the picture width with minimum munge-ing. RESIZE.EXE is a good little new proggie. I'm already finding it very useful. Bye,
>Message-id: <902...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> >Huh? resize.exe is tiny...a mere 24004 bytes! That's all? I guess I didn't realize that... But I'm the person who has to delete cache files and temp files in order to get online! Oh I can't wait to get a new puter!! Thanks for the info Colin!! -joan -- ___ .' '.__ ( o {__) \ ._.' joan stark /\ ) ( mailto:spu...@juno.com | ``'"'` \ \ {`'- } ASCII Art Gallery: jgs '. '-._ / http://www.ascii-art.com ``^^`^`^`^^`^^^``^`^``^```^^^^`^^^`^^^`^`^^^^^``^^^^`^^^^^^^^
>Message-id: <35c...@news.virtek.com> >I'm really sorry but this is one of the poorest (and pointless) >programs I have ever seen relating to ASCII. Actually I think that this program is kindof nifty. I'm sure that there would be an interest in it... Just look at all the people who are interested in the GIF2ASCII converters... What I think would be most helpful is to have it available on the net-- similar to the figlet programs-- people could just paste their picture into the resizer, click a button and have it done for them-- that would be very useful-- especially when most people would need to resize just one or two pics-- they wouldn't want to download the entire program... what are the chances of that happening?? BTW, just how well does it work on the line style ASCII? (I saw Veronica's mutation!) I'm curious as to how it would work on, let's say the cockatoo on my main index page? -joan (who has no disk space to download it) -- _ \`\ _ \ \ /\ \ \ V /\/ /. .\ joan stark =\_T_/= spu...@juno.com / \ (( )) ASCII ART GALLERY: {/\) (/\ http://www.ascii-art.com __\ /__ jgs (____/^\____)
.----- On Wed, 05 Aug 1998 10:27:22 GMT, I posted:
|
| :++;
| :+++:
| ++++;
| :+ ++++;+
| ;+; +;++;+
| ; :++ +++;+;
|;+ :;;: :++; ;++++
|++: :++++++;;+ + :++;
|+++ :+; +;: + :: ++
|+;+++; ; ++ :::++++ ++:
|+; ;; :+++; +++++; ;+ :+;:
| ++;+: : ++: :+ ; ;+ ;;;:
|;+;;+: ;:; :++;;+; ;+ ;+ +:+
|+++++: +:+: +;:;: +; +; ;+ +
| : :+: ++: :++ ;+: :++:++ ;;
| ;+;;;::: +:++++++++: ;++++ ++:: ;+
| :++: :::+; ;: :;: :+++++ :+;;++:
| ;; +: :; +++++::+;;: ++
| +; :: :+ :; ;+++ ++ :;:++++
| +;:++: ;+; +; ;++++ ;+ :+; +++; +++
| +;:+++ +++; ;; ;++++; :;;;; :+;;+ :+;
| ;+ ++; ;++; ;; ;++++; +++++ ++; :++; +;
| ;+ : ;+ +; ;+++++; +++++ +;;+: :+
| ++: :+ ++++++; +++++: :+ ;++++:
| +++;;:::;;++; ++++++; :++++: :+ :::
| :;++++++;:: +++++: ++++ ++
| +: ++++ :;: ++
| +: :;;: ;: :+;
| +: ;:;+;;;;+;
| ;+ +: ::+++
| ;+: : :+ : ;+
| +;+;;: :++ ;++;+
| + ;++ ; ++++;: ++::;
| :+ ;+: ;+ ;+++;:++; ++
| +; ;++; ;++++; +;;++;+::
| +; ;+ :+ :+; :++: ++
| + :+: :+ +;
| :+ + +; ++
| ;+ ;++ +: ;+
| :+ :+: +: ;+
| ;++; +: +; ;+:
| +; + +;;+:
| ;+ : ;; ++ +:
| ++; +: +; +:
| :++:;++ ;+: +; =;= /:==; /:;=
| ;+++; +;: +:
| +; ;+
| ;+++;:
| ::
|
|I think the resolution I had my DOS window at when I took the screengrab
|affected the resize slightly, but you can make out the cow after resize ok so
|now all we need is a program that can do this! I might have a go, I`ve already
|made the first part of it (Put ascii art on screen as picture) in my ASC2PIC
|program.
|
'----------------------------------
OK, my first step was to make a program that did only one size... it halfs the
size. If people like it, I may be tempted to make a program that does any
percentages like stile's proggy does. It also only really works on solid style
asciis... then again stiles program made line-asciis look funny too (although
mine gives worse results on lineart)
Here`s what the program does:
I used the same example pic:
ooo$$$$$$$$$$$$oooo
oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o
oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o o$ $$ o$
o $ oo o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o $$ $$ $$o$
oo $ $ "$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$o $$$o$$o$
"$$$$$$o$ o$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$o $$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ """$$$
"$$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$
$$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "$$$o
o$$" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$o
$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$""$$$$$$ooooo$$$$o
o$$$oooo$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$"$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$""""""""
"""" $$$$ "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" o$$$
"$$$o """$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$"$$" $$$
$$$o "$$""$$$$$$"""" o$$$
$$$$o oo o$$$"
"$$$$o o$$$$$$o"$$$$o o$$$$
"$$$$$oo ""$$$$o$$$$$o o$$$$""
""$$$$$oooo "$$$o$$$$$$$$$"""
""$$$$$$$oo $$$$$$$$$$
""""$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$"
"$$$""""
becomes:
-:::::::::::::,. . , .
..,.. -:::-,-::::::,,::::- ---:-
.:::, .::::: :::::, ,:::::,,::::
-:=-=::::::-,-::::::,,::::::: .,:.
:. :::::::::::::::::::::::::, .:-
-:..::--::::::::::::::::::.-:::==::-.
--,,.:- ,=:::::::::::::=, -:....
.:- ..,===::=-,, .:.
.=:. .,,.--. .:-
.-==,.,.=::::,---.
.,,,-,:::::.
-::::=
.,..
as you can see the results arn`t brilliant... however I think it would be better
if it used a better GIFscii style 'greyscale' than it does.
All it does is take the pic, do what ASC2PIC does, then resamples the output and
effectivly 'GIFsciis' it... however my algorithm is the one from the ASC2BMP
proggy mentioned in the MINIFAQ which as you can see by the demo doesn`t produce
brilliant results itself... this is the algorithm:
.,-=:;/+%$XH@M#
It goes white>black from left to right. Can anyone help me with a better
algoritm? It needs 16 shades from white to black.
(if anyone wants the program for a demo, email me but bear in mind its still WiP
and there`s a few bugs like the output is always 100x100 chars regardless of
asciiart size.
Seeyas
Mart
|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@--
| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
.----- On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 01:28:16 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted: |Well I know what that sort of situation is like because between 1992/96 |I surfed the Net with a PC/XT with a mere 256K RAM, no graphics, a |green monochrome monitor and only a 20Mb hard disk of which about 8Mb was |taken up by someone elses files leaving me 12Mb to play with. | |So I had to keep a daily watch on free disk space and shift heaps of |files on to 5.25" 360K floppy disks ( I now have zillions of those ). | |Now I have a 486DX with a 500Meg hard disk of which 250Meg is still free |life is much easier but I still transfer a lot of files to floppy disks |of various capacities. | |Freeing useable memory is more difficult because these modern programs, |particularly Windoze is a real memory gobbler. | |I only use Windoze for programs that will only run in Windoze... |everything else I do either from shareware Dos-shell named "FileViewer" |or from the DOS prompt. | |No one ever has enough memory or disk space for long...you just have to |make space somehow. '---------------------- I`m so short of HDD space on my 1Gig drive I`ve got my computer wiping all Temp directories and the internet cache every time I boot up. I have a great big archive of alt.ascii-art (The only newsgroup I don`t wipe every month or so <g>) which takes up a lot of space. My current HDD space readout, although this changes dependant on how many programs I have running etc. is: 9.43MB although when I`m on the web I have to wipe the cache every five minutes or so cos I run out of disk space hyperfast :o) Anyways, Bye Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
In article <35c...@news.vossnet.net>, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: > > .----- On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 01:28:16 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted: > |Well I know what that sort of situation is like because between 1992/96 > |I surfed the Net with a PC/XT with a mere 256K RAM, no graphics, a [snip] > |No one ever has enough memory or disk space for long...you just have to > |make space somehow. > '---------------------- > > I`m so short of HDD space on my 1Gig drive I`ve got my computer wiping all Temp > directories and the internet cache every time I boot up. I have a great big > archive of alt.ascii-art (The only newsgroup I don`t wipe every month or so <g>) > which takes up a lot of space. [snip] > > Anyways, Bye > Martin > > |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- > | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com Martin, why don't you let dejanews http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml be your alt.ascii-art archive? That should free up some space. NOTE: I do not pick up my mail from the idirect address that you see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca _/ | ,^%--- llizard aka ejm |_____| __<_ \ Dejanews is so handy! --- == >/ [_____] __>,^ ASCII-ar+, ASCII & gif anima+ions ejm| | //| | www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334
On 5 Aug 1998 19:06:40 GMT, spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) wrote: >>Message-id: <902...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> > >>Huh? resize.exe is tiny...a mere 24004 bytes! > >That's all? I guess I didn't realize that... >But I'm the person who has to delete cache >files and temp files in order to get online! > >Oh I can't wait to get a new puter!! > >Thanks for the info Colin!! Well I know what that sort of situation is like because between 1992/96 I surfed the Net with a PC/XT with a mere 256K RAM, no graphics, a green monochrome monitor and only a 20Mb hard disk of which about 8Mb was taken up by someone elses files leaving me 12Mb to play with. So I had to keep a daily watch on free disk space and shift heaps of files on to 5.25" 360K floppy disks ( I now have zillions of those ). Now I have a 486DX with a 500Meg hard disk of which 250Meg is still free life is much easier but I still transfer a lot of files to floppy disks of various capacities. Freeing useable memory is more difficult because these modern programs, particularly Windoze is a real memory gobbler. I only use Windoze for programs that will only run in Windoze... everything else I do either from shareware Dos-shell named "FileViewer" or from the DOS prompt. No one ever has enough memory or disk space for long...you just have to make space somehow. Bye,
.----- On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 18:41:31 -0400, llizard posted: | |Martin, why don't you let dejanews | |http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml | |be your alt.ascii-art archive? | |That should free up some space. | '------------------------- That`s all very well, but I quite often need access to the 'archive' offline, for example when I`m compiling an ascii collection or something. I suppose I could delete some *really* old posts... the earliest one I have is 'Caught Unawares' from HayleyJW :o) |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote: >I`m so short of HDD space on my 1Gig drive I`ve got my computer wiping all Temp >directories and the internet cache every time I boot up. I have a great big >archive of alt.ascii-art (The only newsgroup I don`t wipe every month or so <g>) >which takes up a lot of space. All my ascii-art archives are on 5.25" 360K floppies with the exception of the latest additions which arrive daily and await transfer to the disks. There is a huge advantage in transferring data to floppy discs for both space saving and security. I have now had 4 hard disk crashes and every time has required reformatting the hard disk and loss of all data on it. If you like to risk losing your data and archives leave them sitting on your hard disk. Bye,
I hope you're still there... Nate / DAC wrote: sTiLe wrote: >> Er.. after being explained re-sampling, I don't honestly see just how to >> do it for ascii. You can't just "average" text together... >Sure you can... Yep! >A good program might take a 'b' and a double quote '"' and render them >together as the number '8' or a capital 'B', should this need arise. Yeah! But you keep mixing up "resizing" and "resampling". this is a 1-liner --> 8 b " <-- this is a 2-liner Let's define resizing as "adding or deleting rows and cols of chars" (i know that's not an accurate definition). input filter | output delete cols | | | | 88888888 88888888--dr 8888 88888888 88888888 eo 8 8 8 8 8888 88888888 88888888--lw 88888888 88888888 .s 8 8 8 8 Let's define resampling as "lighter/darker" (...) light text on dark background light <-------------> dark @@@@@@@@ 88888888 ++++++++ :::::::: @@@@@@@@ 88888888 ++++++++ :::::::: @@@@@@@@ 88888888 ++++++++ :::::::: @@@@@@@@ 88888888 ++++++++ :::::::: dark <-------------> light dark text on light background >Or, perhaps a fes lines of 8's might be redone as: >88888888 oooooo >88888888 resized: 888888 or 50%: 8888 or 25%: oo >88888888 75% 888888 8888 "" >88888888 """""" ^ | hmmm... fyi this is 25% ---------+ OK, that's cheesy... But I really can't think of a way how to combine the "resizing" and the "resampling" in order to get this output :( >Ok, prolly not the best examples. The best way might be for the program to >turn the ASCII artwork into a bitmap (perhaps, just a dump of the font >shapes and such so that the bitmap looks identical to the ASCII version), >re-scale the bitmap using the various averaging and anti-aliasing techniques >people use, and then converted back to an ASCII. _____,,,,,---==AAaargh===='''''```` </pain> ASCII-art is a "char"-map, not a pixelmap! Did you ever try out what you're propagating? >The conversion back to ASCII would be the hardest I guess. Perhaps such a >program could create a directly scaled version as in your original, and >create an ASCII-to-bitmap-to-ASCII version, and somehow use the first as >sort of a "layout" map.. Now, that's a curious detour... bye, mic
.----- On 8 Aug 1998 18:52:20 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted: | |All my ascii-art archives are on 5.25" 360K floppies with the |exception of the latest additions which arrive daily and await |transfer to the disks. | |There is a huge advantage in transferring data to floppy discs for |both space saving and security. | |I have now had 4 hard disk crashes and every time has required |reformatting the hard disk and loss of all data on it. If you like |to risk losing your data and archives leave them sitting on your |hard disk. | '------------------------- Well I`m soon going to buy myself an iomega zip drive which should help to relieve my hard drive of the strain. Current HDD space: 11.2MB (after installing DJGPP today) |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
In article <35c...@news.vossnet.net>, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: > > .----- On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 18:41:31 -0400, llizard posted: > | > |Martin, why don't you let dejanews > | > |http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml > | > |be your alt.ascii-art archive? > | > |That should free up some space. > | > '------------------------- > > That`s all very well, but I quite often need access to the 'archive' offline, > for example when I`m compiling an ascii collection or something. > > I suppose I could delete some *really* old posts... the earliest one I have is > 'Caught Unawares' from HayleyJW :o) > > |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- > | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com Sorry Martin, I had forgotten that you had a compilation of people's works on your page. Why not let Floppies be your friends then? NOTE: I do not pick up my mail from the idirect address that you see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- llizard aka ejm cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca ,^ ASCII-ar+, ASCII and gif anima+ions ===%^^^^^^^^^^^^ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ " "
Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote: >Well I`m soon going to buy myself an iomega zip drive which should help to >relieve my hard drive of the strain. >Current HDD space: 11.2MB (after installing DJGPP today) A hard disk crash requiring a hard disk reformat would solve all your problems...start with a nice totally clean machine again and you can forget to reload all those nasty memory/diskspace gobblers like Windoze, Netscape, Microsoft Outlook Express, Word for Windows and all the rest of the bloated software jazz with bells and whistles. Back to good old MS-DOS 6.0 and the MSDOSHELL or similar for all your other work. A simple word processor like QEDIT and possibly a web-browser like LYNX if your ISP does not provide a browser on line. That's all you need plus some small utilities to do special tasks like Unix/DOS file convertors, trailing-space trimmer, emailer, resizer.exe and a printer driver proggie. Keep life simple and backup essential material including your software proggies. Bye,
On Sun, 09 Aug 1998 11:47:35 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: >.----- On 8 Aug 1998 18:52:20 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted: >| >|All my ascii-art archives are on 5.25" 360K floppies with the >|exception of the latest additions which arrive daily and await >|transfer to the disks. >| >|There is a huge advantage in transferring data to floppy discs for >|both space saving and security. >| >|I have now had 4 hard disk crashes and every time has required >|reformatting the hard disk and loss of all data on it. If you like >|to risk losing your data and archives leave them sitting on your >|hard disk. >| >'------------------------- >Well I`m soon going to buy myself an iomega zip drive which should help to >relieve my hard drive of the strain. I have considered a Zip drive, US$150 approx and US$12 per 100Mb Zip disk. However I have zillions of 5.25" floppies full of data and I can access those in either my 486DX B: floppy drive or my PC/XT floppy drive...and I use that PC/XT as my standby if the 486DX crashes...which it can and has done so once in February. I'm not certain if I could run the Zip Disk with my old 1986 PC/XT. >Current HDD space: 11.2MB (after installing DJGPP today) DJGPP? What's that? How do I manage to live without it? How much memory does it gobble? And how much diskspace? Bye,
.----- On Sun, 09 Aug 1998 11:31:09 GMT, miK posted: | |>Ok, prolly not the best examples. The best way might be for the program to |>turn the ASCII artwork into a bitmap (perhaps, just a dump of the font |>shapes and such so that the bitmap looks identical to the ASCII version), |>re-scale the bitmap using the various averaging and anti-aliasing techniques |>people use, and then converted back to an ASCII. | |>The conversion back to ASCII would be the hardest I guess. Perhaps such a |>program could create a directly scaled version as in your original, and |>create an ASCII-to-bitmap-to-ASCII version, and somehow use the first as |>sort of a "layout" map.. | |Now, that's a curious detour... | '--------------------- I made a resizer for solid style asciis (although at present it only does 50% reduction) that turns the ascii into a picture (the was ASC2PIC does) and then resamples (er, probably) to 50%. It then does a kinda GIFscii operation on it and creates a really weird resize of the pic. |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
.----- On 9 Aug 1998 19:15:15 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|
|A hard disk crash requiring a hard disk reformat would solve all
|your problems...start with a nice totally clean machine again and
|you can forget to reload all those nasty memory/diskspace gobblers
|like Windoze, Netscape, Microsoft Outlook Express, Word for Windows
|and all the rest of the bloated software jazz with bells and whistles.
|
|Back to good old MS-DOS 6.0 and the MSDOSHELL or similar for all
|your other work. A simple word processor like QEDIT and possibly
|a web-browser like LYNX if your ISP does not provide a browser
|on line. That's all you need plus some small utilities to do special
|tasks like Unix/DOS file convertors, trailing-space trimmer,
|emailer, resizer.exe and a printer driver proggie. Keep life simple
|and backup essential material including your software proggies.
|
'----------------------
EEK! Don`t even suggest that... last time that happened I lost SOOOO much stuff!
I`ve got my system finely tuned to my specs, using a few programs I wrote plus a
few Windoze hacks to speed things up a little. I do keep things simplish, though
not as simple as you suggest!
I have Win95 with MSIE 4.0 and all that Jazz, and other than that it`s pretty
much run of the mill small apps. I use TextPad as a texted, WordPad as a word
processor (or sometimes I do my work in NotePad using HTML and print it from
MSIE *S*) and of course the obligatory mIRC+FTPx+Free Agent combo that makes up
my net apps arsenal.
Believe me, what I have on my hard disk now is almost bare minimum for the work
I do. My job requires me to have an up to date graphical browser (IE of course)
and the other programs sorta come with it!
When I get my zip drive I`ll move all of my backup .zip files (almost my entire
software collection was internet downloaded!) to a zip disk with will releive my
hard disk of..... 34MB plus I can move my work from school and job to another
disk and my 2MB ascii collection+all my other graphics to another which shold
free up quite a lot... then I can purge my newsgroup archive for some more
space..... hell I could have an almost empty HDD soon ('part from the 150MB
windoze takes up!)
Bye,
Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@--
| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:39:31 GMT, Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote: > >I made a resizer for solid style asciis (although at present it only does 50% >reduction) that turns the ascii into a picture (the was ASC2PIC does) and then >resamples (er, probably) to 50%. It then does a kinda GIFscii operation on it >and creates a really weird resize of the pic. >|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- >| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com COOL! Post the program to a web page and give us the addy :) need help with getting it to do other sizes than 50%? -- \_____|_____/ /\____|____/\ Help! I'm stuck in _ / /\__ o __/\ \ the world wide web! ___ ( ) ___ __/_/_/_+-|-+_\_\_\__ _____ | /___\/ \/___\ \ \ \__/^\__/ / / __ | | _ /___( )___\ \ \/___|___\/ / (__ | o | /_\ / ( ) \ \/____|____\/ __) | | |__\_...@mindless.com /~~~\___/~~~\ / | \
In article <slr...@localhost.localdomain>, sTiLe <sti...@bignet.net> writes >COOL! Post the program to a web page and give us the addy :) need help >with getting it to do other sizes than 50%? > >-- > \_____|_____/ > /\____|____/\ Help! I'm stuck in _ > / /\__ o __/\ \ the world wide web! ___ ( ) ___ > __/_/_/_+-|-+_\_\_\__ _____ | /___\/ \/___\ > \ \ \__/^\__/ / / __ | | _ /___( )___\ > \ \/___|___\/ / (__ | o | /_\ / ( ) \ > \/____|____\/ __) | | |__\_...@mindless.com /~~~\___/~~~\ > / | \ I like it -- I skimmed the group for any funny or cute picture but, apart from Joan's horse, that was the only good pic arrived. (Not in any way knocking it, but there are some nicer spiders around if you want one....) This one is particularly neat: In article <6qkf9m$b3...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, James Shufelt <dh5...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> writes > > /\/\___/\/\ >// \(o.o)/\ \ ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Spiders in decreasing order of size...... In article <01bcfdf5$1c2a99a0$ab27a2ce@tripper>, Web_Woman <Web...@msn.com> writes >Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <Dev...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote in >article <l7A...@xemu.demon.co.uk>... >I need a small spider please > : > : > : > * small enough? > >LOL....how about something just a bit bigger, but you have the right >idea. I have this one, but would like something smaller.. > | > / | \ > / / | \ \ > \ \_(*)_/ / Web...@msn.com > \_(~:~)_/ > /-(:)-\ or > / / * \ \ > \ \ / / MsW...@aol.com > \ / (eight line spider) +-............... : / / : \ \ \ \/~\/ / '--[ ]--' .--(:)--. / / O \ \ \ \ / / (six line spider) +-.......... : . / _ \ . \_\|_|/_/ _<:>_ / /@\ \ ' | | ' (narrower five line spider) +-.................................................... : : . : . /. .\ \<o>/ \L0l/ /<">\ /T"T\ ' ' (four line spider) \' '/ +-................................................... : : \<o>/ /<">\ (two line spider) Yes, you can see it has eight legs and is divided into an abdomen plus cephaothorax. In fact the ten characters present map to those ten elements, which is neat. I also think it looks quite cute. |~/ |~/ ~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~ P | Woof Woof, Glug Glug ||____________|| 0 | P O | Who Drowned the Judge's Dog? | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O O | answers on *---|_______________ @__o0 | O L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L and{a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html"}{/a}XemuSP4(:)
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 01:18:12 +0100, Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <slr...@localhost.localdomain>, sTiLe ><sti...@bignet.net> writes >>COOL! Post the program to a web page and give us the addy :) need help >>with getting it to do other sizes than 50%? >> >>-- >> \_____|_____/ >> /\____|____/\ Help! I'm stuck in _ >> / /\__ o __/\ \ the world wide web! ___ ( ) ___ >> __/_/_/_+-|-+_\_\_\__ _____ | /___\/ \/___\ >> \ \ \__/^\__/ / / __ | | _ /___( )___\ >> \ \/___|___\/ / (__ | o | /_\ / ( ) \ >> \/____|____\/ __) | | |__\_...@mindless.com /~~~\___/~~~\ >> / | \ > > I like it -- I skimmed the group for any funny or cute picture > but, apart from Joan's horse, that was the only good pic arrived. > >(Not in any way knocking it, but there are some nicer spiders around > if you want one....) *snip* Cool! I'll take a look, the spider was the hard part :) it was kinda hard puttin the little guy in there too :)
1 line spider, a bit bigger than *. /^/^(**)^\^\
-Sarah
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:39:31 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: >.----- On Sun, 09 Aug 1998 11:31:09 GMT, miK posted: >| >|>Ok, prolly not the best examples. The best way might be for the program to >|>turn the ASCII artwork into a bitmap (perhaps, just a dump of the font >|>shapes and such so that the bitmap looks identical to the ASCII version), >|>re-scale the bitmap using the various averaging and anti-aliasing techniques >|>people use, and then converted back to an ASCII. >| >|>The conversion back to ASCII would be the hardest I guess. Perhaps such a >|>program could create a directly scaled version as in your original, and >|>create an ASCII-to-bitmap-to-ASCII version, and somehow use the first as >|>sort of a "layout" map.. >| >|Now, that's a curious detour... >| >'--------------------- > >I made a resizer for solid style asciis (although at present it only does 50% >reduction) that turns the ascii into a picture (the was ASC2PIC does) and then >resamples (er, probably) to 50%. It then does a kinda GIFscii operation on it >and creates a really weird resize of the pic. MARTIN: Please reduce your line width from 80 down to 76 coloumns or less! Your resizer RESIZE.EXE is actually very good especially with those very big ascii GIF style pics like the nudes because it squeezes them down. It squeezes them a little too much so that they get a slightly squashed look . Bye,
>Message-id: <slr...@localhost.localdomain> >>(Not in any way knocking it, but there are some nicer spiders around >> if you want one....) I made these 5-liners-- I was happy with them. __ | / \ | // \\ \_\\ //_/ _\\()//_ .'/()\'. / // \\ \ jgs \\ // | \__/ | -joan -- \___ \_, ___\_ | __, .'.--. ```-./ `....--'.'''.-p./ ...always buzzin'! ({{ }<=-= ( < .''''--.`...'-b`\ spu...@juno.com jgs `._____...-'\__ *joan stark * ___/ _| ` / / ` ASCII-ART GALLERY: http://www.ascii-art.com
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 01:04:45 GMT, Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> wrote: >.----- On 13 Aug 1998 19:45:43 GMT, sTiLe posted: >| >|COOL! Post the program to a web page and give us the addy :) need help >|with getting it to do other sizes than 50%? >| >'------------------------- > >I`ll get the program onto my 'permanent' website ASAP, but until then if you >can catch me online you could try http://martpws.dyn.ml.org/junk/aschalf.zip >(if I remember to do it after I`ve finished reading the news postings.) >Some help with the sizing would be nice, especially +resampling as that was >what I had most trouble with. Resampling to 50% is easy, but odd sizes are a >bit more involved. :o) > >When I get it uploaded, it will be >http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/aschalf.zip > >but beware: It`s not a very elegant program and was mainly just for my >perposes so isn`t tarted up for 'public use' <g> > >Seeya, >Martin > >|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- >| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com *pokepoke* it's at neither address :) -- \_____|_____/ /\____|____/\ Help! I'm stuck in _ / /\__ o __/\ \ the world wide web! ___ ( ) ___ __/_/_/_+-|-+_\_\_\__ _____ | /___\/ \/___\ \ \ \__/^\__/ / / __ | | _ /___( )___\ \ \/___|___\/ / (__ | o | /_\ / ( ) \ \/____|____\/ __) | | |__\_...@mindless.com /~~~\___/~~~\ / | \
.----- On 13 Aug 1998 19:45:43 GMT, sTiLe posted: | |COOL! Post the program to a web page and give us the addy :) need help |with getting it to do other sizes than 50%? | '------------------------- I`ll get the program onto my 'permanent' website ASAP, but until then if you can catch me online you could try http://martpws.dyn.ml.org/junk/aschalf.zip (if I remember to do it after I`ve finished reading the news postings.) Some help with the sizing would be nice, especially +resampling as that was what I had most trouble with. Resampling to 50% is easy, but odd sizes are a bit more involved. :o) When I get it uploaded, it will be http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/aschalf.zip but beware: It`s not a very elegant program and was mainly just for my perposes so isn`t tarted up for 'public use' <g> Seeya, Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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