At 10:53 AM 5/23/00 -0700, Vintage Computer GAWD! wrote:
>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?
There is/was an SGI tool to convert bitmap animations to ASCII.
Back in 1998, you were a participant in the CCC thread on
this topic which said:
It's been done. <
http://www.vuk.org/ascii/film/> has a number of
movie clips converted to ASCII, and then played via a Java applet.
If you aren't on a well-equipped browser on a fast link, forget it.
I do recognize the irony of this situation.
These movies were created with the SGI 'ttyvideo' package,
<
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/cpirazzi_esd/ttyvideo.html>,
which lets you convert a bitmap animation or real-time video capture
(the SGI Indy includes a camera) to an animated or static ASCII version.
- John
Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 17:35:18 BST