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Post by gazzer » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:44 pm

yeah, lalalalalalala....

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Post by Shotokan101 » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:33 pm

Kieran wrote:tut tut, call yourself a mod Jim ;)
Just toooooo gooood an opportunity to miss out on K :wink:

....but personally I've allways thought of myself as more of a "Rocker" :listening:
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Post by gazzer » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:31 pm

That's life Jim, but not as we know it :roll:
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Post by Shotokan101 » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:40 pm

Hmmm..... :?

....I'm sure I've got a proggie knockling around somewhere that takes a piccie and converts it to ASCII Art.....
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Post by gazzer » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:06 pm

yeah i've used one before, it wasn't bad actually, it worked quite well. even generated them in colour and everything, or as character-sized blocks of colour, and in as much detail (more characters, more lines for high detail, less characters, less lines for low detail) as you wanted.
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Post by Shotokan101 » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:52 pm

gazzer wrote:yeah i've used one before, it wasn't bad actually, it worked quite well. even generated them in colour and everything, or as character-sized blocks of colour, and in as much detail (more characters, more lines for high detail, less characters, less lines for low detail) as you wanted.
Can you remember whch one it was ?
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Post by gazzer » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:13 am

no, but i remember it had a really bad inteface, like you were supposed to register it but it still worked if you just clicked the x in the corner of that window or something similarly stupid. i think i just googled for "ascii picture converter" or something like that and downloaded one of the results.
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Post by Shotokan101 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:33 am

NO Problem gazzer - just curious - none of the one's I've found allow the selection of the output resolution so unless you input a really bad resolution photo it takes mega pages of printout :?
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In the past I have used "Ascii Art Generator"
This list might be of use (regular googlers will no doubt have found it already) ;)
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/ASCII_Art/Software/
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Post by Shotokan101 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:19 am

Yep - found that great page - :wink:

...but is the prog. you reference on there ? :?:
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Post by Neo » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:33 am

Shotokan101 wrote:...but is the prog. you reference on there ? :?:
Not necessarily :lol: I was just suggesting an alternative ;)

See this test from img2ascii ;)
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Post by Shotokan101 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:43 am

Neo wrote:
Shotokan101 wrote:...but is the prog. you reference on there ? :?:
Not necessarily :lol: I was just suggesting an alternative ;)

See this test from img2ascii ;)
Barsteward :roll:

...but will have a look :wink:

.....if it works - all I need now is someoene to take a picture of me in the shower - like gazzer did :rofls:
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Post by Shotokan101 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:48 am

Even more of a BS Neo - how the "heck" do you run/install it on Windoze ? :(
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Post by Neo » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:56 am

:naughty:

For img2ascii I already have Appserv (http://sourceforge.net/projects/appserv/) installed for webdev so installing it was fairly easy after that ;)

It's just one example proggie...Ascii Art Generator can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ascgen2 :)
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Post by gazzer » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:52 am

Shotokan101 wrote:
Neo wrote:
Shotokan101 wrote:...but is the prog. you reference on there ? :?:
Not necessarily :lol: I was just suggesting an alternative ;)

See this test from img2ascii ;)
Barsteward :roll:

...but will have a look :wink:

.....if it works - all I need now is someoene to take a picture of me in the shower - like gazzer did :rofls:
8) :lol: you know it ;)

EDIT - btw, congrats on getting my test thread to the second page guys, much appreciated :P who knew a page full of "la" would get so far! :D
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