9 Oct
2008
9 Oct
'08
8:31 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:34:31AM -0500, John Foust wrote:
At 09:59 PM 10/8/2008, Ethan Dicks wrote:
No, but for what I was trying to do, it does the job nicely. I'm
more going for the general effect than 100% authenticity to 1970s
methods. I now have a nice ASCIIfied version of myself, which
was the point of it all.
I only ever had one overstrike ASCII art file back in the day,
anyway - the really detailed picture of a cat. I have that
file somewhere on an OS/8 floppy, and probably on an RL01 pack,
but I'm pretty sure that particular file is not "lost". It
was one of the more interesting things I ever printed out on my
LA-180. I think everything else I had was simple (or not so
simple) one-glyph-per-cell ASCII art.
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:51:55PM -0700, Al
Kossow wrote:
Thanks, Al. That's just the sort of thing I was looking for.
I don't think that does overstrike, does it? Illustrator will handle overstrike as well as let you
choose a suitable
font. You could print from there, or if you really wanted a bitmap,
then PhotoShop will rasterize Illustrator at whatever resolution for printing.
I don't have those applications at hand, so unfortunately, that path
won't work so well for me.
A long time ago, I wrote a simple filter to take old
overstrike ASCII
art and convert to .AI format: http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/
I'll have to check it out when the satellite comes up next.
For that matter, certainly some of the old 70s picture
booths used
dot-matrix as dots and not fonts, and not teletype or Diablo, so they
generally had easy-to-compute fixed dithering to make gray.
Thinking of that OSI rig owned by that family friend, ISTR it was dithered
dot-matrix, but the visual effect was similar to machine-crafted
ASCIIfication - up close - chaotic jumble, far away - a smooth looking
greyscale.
Thanks,
-ethan
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