I realized 2 days after my post about the 30 years of naked ASCII art that the gallery was not working with Firefox and Safari. No wonder that it died at Digg before it even started. I would be glad, if you could revive it by digging it, if you happen to have a Digg account. Thanks. Much appreciated.I fixed the Gallery and tested it with Firefox 2.0 and Safari for Windows. It works fine now. While I was at it, did I extend the gallery from 20 to 30 pieces of art.I also did significantly improve the interface. I am now showing little thumbnails for the picture selection and also added a little “fading” effect if you hover over a picture, which works for IE and Firefox (not for Safari, sorry). d@$iWWb: ‘8$$$$#$$$k ‘8$$$$ `$$M& X$$$$K `$$XX $$$$$UUo$@$$$. 9$$$$$$$$$9$$$$> W$$$$$$$$P `#$$?B ‘$$$$$”#$h. d$$$X?$c $$$$R /”$$$X$$ ?$$$R~ :/ $$R”””\. $$$$: .xHH9$E ! ‘$”9$$N d$$F ! ‘ M$$$’Ne@$$$!’ ‘ E XR#$>’R P9? k> : E ‘! *f .f’ : 9k -~` `”-. ` : ` > > ~$: .~ `!. ‘L : ~` ~ ! ‘$8 .~ ~\. ? ~ ! . $$$. : `~: `! ‘ %X2 R$$W% .~ `\ !: MM> FL : M5$$ ~ ! `. !$W. xF #buo@$ ‘^$F :$$> .–^`”-. `. !M$$$$* ‘k ‘ d$*##..-~` `: “4:x. `”#5 \. ‘!$$$$$c !. !xx! .! `$$@F` >~ ‘\!?$$$$$X. `M 9 ! ~ ‘!!!> ~ `!!~!!. f ~ ~ A simple click on the current image also closes it[…]
I created today a Google Group titled “ASCII and ANSI Text Art”, but it is open to anything and anybody who and which is related to Text Art. For that reason is the short name and URL to the group “textart” instead of “asciiart” or “ansiart”. ASCII and ANSI text art Visit this group ?? Subscribe to ASCII and ANSI text art Email: Visit this group Those templates were provided by Google hehe. I created already a little resources page and also started a discussion about something that has always been a controversy. I will not tell you what that is, go check out the group and find out for yourself. A number of XML feeds are also available for anybody who can not live without. ?? ?? Atom 1.0 15 New messages50 New messages15 New topics50 New topics ?? RSS 2.0 15 New messages50 New messages15 New topics50 New topics ?? Lets see how it goes. Cheers! Carsten aka Roy/SAC
I came across a nice free tool that converts images to ASCII. It is called Photo2Text.com and produces very decent results. I have looked at a bunch of such converters since the early nineties and the results can vary a lot, depending on the quality of the algorithm that has to decide which text character is the best to get it as close to the original as it possibly can. I was never a fan on image to text converters. Mostly because those converters were and are often used by guys who are cheats and try to “sell” converted images as their own creation, as in made from scratch and by hand. Real pieces of ASCII art are being created without the use of any special tools other than editors that allow to assign text characters to specific keys on the keyboard and let you easier move around to change individual characters (“insert” off and the ability to move with the cursor to the right without the need to create “spaces” manually first). A number of different tools are available for download at my site.Anyhow, I take the converters as what they are, a nice tool to have fun with, nothing serious. Nothing is wrong with good old fashioned fun. The only person who is serious about it, is the coder who spent his time figuring out how to produce the best possible result.To demonstrate the quality of the Photo2Text.com converter, did I use an image of the Google engineer[…]
Except for some activities at deviantART was I not successful after over one year of searching to find much (if any) other blogs that are related to the old ANSI and ASCII underground artscene. Fellow artists who created ASCII art for group NFO files, File_ID.diz or ANSI art for BBS Layouts and Login pictures and logos back in the early to mid 1990’s. It’s sad and frustrating. The lack of community makes me spin off with my blog into other subjects, such as deviantART, Wikipedia and Cirque Du Soleil (or Internet Marketing and in a few cases about video games). I also was writing about internet video and music. Nice stuff, but not text art related. I recenty created a new “Demoscene and Text Art Community” over at BUMPzee! BUMPzee! is a blogger community / feed reader / networking site with some Digg features. I added another blog to the community, which I found at Blogspot, but that blog does not see much activity anymore either. Where are you guys (and few girls) of the text art scene, demo scene and BBS warez scene? Nobody blogging? Nobody writing about things that were forgotten by most people and never learned by todays youth? Come on over and contact me and join the community. Cheers!Carsten aka Roy/SAC
I came across two cool examples of ascii art made entirely out of 7-bit US-ASCII characters only, using only letters, number etc.As a refresher, here is the complete US-ASCII character set. US Charsset – ascii 32 (space) to 126 (tilde ~) ! ” # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , – . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ The first one is a picture of a walking man. The ASCII is pretty small (see full size picture below), but if you size it down to a degree where you can’t see the actual letter anymore (see image to the right), you will notice how detailed the picture actually is. A true piece of art.The second cool piece of ASCII art I came across is a music video by Beck for one of his songs called “Black Tambourine”. I am not a big Beck fan and did not know about the existance of the video until recently. The whole video is in ASCII. A true ASCIImation. Awesome! Check it out! Backup Link to Video at YouTube.That’s it.[…]
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