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_at_siconic.com>
> To: <classiccmp_at_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?
> >
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