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Hey I was wondering I saw in an aim chat room (or a chat room somewhere) someone drew a big train in letters, numbers, and symbols and I thought it was really cool. I didn’t know if it was real talent or a program. I need some help with this one. Any help would be much appreciated
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I think what you’re talking about is commonly referred to as ASCII Art. It has a long history, dating way back to the ’60s at least.. before most computers had any sort of graphics capability. I believe there might be programs out there that will attempt to convert an image into ASCII art, but I haven’t run across one.
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“$$$””””UPDATE! I found a shareware program called Email Effects that is to ASCII art what Photoshop is to raster images. You can create ASCII art within Email Effects, or convert an existing image. It’s available for both Mac and PC.
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S@@@KG @#7sounds good except that u have to download it. but that really isnt a problem. and before i download it, is there ways to make it not so big? i dont think ne1 would want something as big as that aol guy u made in their profile.
Yes, you can control the size. Of course, with ASCII art, the smaller the picture, the more difficult to make it look very accurate.
You should also make sure that you use a monospaced font like Courier New, otherwise the pictures get all messed up.
Nice, nice…..I’ve always wanted an ascii image converter. Ascii art is great, nothing like a little bit of ascii art to spice up the header of some document, or program…or conversation gone bad. :p
Quote:quote:Originally posted by HybridShinobouwow that’s awesome
Please keep these “mindless” posts to a minimum, If you have nothing helpful to add to the topic, please don’t post.
As I mentioned above, it’s shareware. This means it’s free for you to download and try, and if you like it, you’re asked to send the author $15.
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