23 May
2000
23 May
'00
2:50 p.m.
The pbmplus package on unix systems used to have a program for converting
raster images to ascii art. you should still be able to serach for it
on the web. Possibly netpbm might also have it.
Those images I put on the web site were scannen in back in the 60's/70's or
so, and who knows how the guys at princeton did it.. probably used a
video camera or something.
-Lawrence LeMay
There's a library and a bunch of apps for *nix
called aalib, look for it on
freshmeat or icewalkers, or at a sunsite mirror. On faster machines it can
render stuff realtime, there's a demo that fills your screen with
real-time-rendered ascii fire. The *nix X-Windows rendering appy XaoS can
render fractals in ascii using aalib as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vintage Computer GAWD!" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 1:53 PM
Subject: Question about ASCII art
I am making the assumption that most of these ASCII art files were scanned
from actual pictures and then rendered by some software?
If so, is this software still around??? And what hardware was used to
scan them?
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and
Danger
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