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serendipity04 In reply to diamondie [2004-05-02 04:46:40 +0000 UTC]

this may be a stupid question but, how do you convert pics to ASCII?

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diamondie In reply to serendipity04 [2004-05-02 08:52:46 +0000 UTC]

There are many different converters, the most famous one probably being GIF2ASCII (there are also BMP2ASCII, PNG2ASCII and many others). Searching for an ASCII converter in Google will give you several examples, some of which can even be used online, without downloading. Some of the programs convert every pixel into a character, some use several pixels for one character. Usually you just open the program, open the picture file and it gives you the text file in a few seconds.

For experienced ASCII artists it's usually very easy to distinguish an unedited converted picture from a hand-drawn one, because the character maps the program use are often rather similar and most of the time there's no antialiasing (the edges look jagged and rough). If people use converters, they should at least hand-edit the result. I don't really see how converting a picture into ASCII is different than applying inverse colors or emboss to a photo - it's just a single effect picture manipulation and everyone can do that.

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serendipity04 In reply to diamondie [2004-05-02 19:38:35 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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