You are very right in your comment. I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard.
If you think you can help with any of this drop me a message on the github.
Re:Asciimo: Online web app to generate Ascii art text
by vog on Sunday June 20, 2010 @08:19AM
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> I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard.
However, automatically generated ASCII images aren't really art, either. It's just the generators themselves which can be called art. ASCII art almost always requires some tough hand work to become really good. For example, have a look at the Star Wars Asciimation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1446358).
Re:Asciimo: Online web app to generate Ascii art text
by marak on Sunday June 20, 2010 @08:11AM
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:-)
i really have to apologize for the hosting. i'm using some experimental hosting software instead of a battle hardened solution. if anyone is having issues with the site you can clone your own repo and just open the index.html in your browser locally without installing anything.
site will become more stable over then next few weeks.
However, real ASCII art is more than a text with a special font.
You are very right in your comment. I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard.
If you think you can help with any of this drop me a message on the github.
Why do you want to code it yourself? There's the all-time favourite AAlib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/). [1]
However, automatically generated ASCII images aren't really art, either. It's just the generators themselves which can be called art. ASCII art almost always requires some tough hand work to become really good. For example, have a look at the Star Wars Asciimation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1446358).
[1] The great BB demo (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/) has been created using the AAlib.
http://github.com/marak/asciimo
For the curious and for the freedom - asciimo
i really have to apologize for the hosting. i'm using some experimental hosting software instead of a battle hardened solution. if anyone is having issues with the site you can clone your own repo and just open the index.html in your browser locally without installing anything.
site will become more stable over then next few weeks.
Actually, I had no idea there were ASCII Art fonts at all.
lets hope the hosting holds up! ^_^