::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?
::
::I'm not sure about other platforms but Amiga users can do this using
::Personal Paint 6 onwards. There is also a PD utility on Aminet to do the
::job.
I wrote a utility called ppmascii in Perl that does something of the sort but
it turns pixels into entire characters which means on a typical screen you can
only see 80x25 images and the aspect ratio is usually tweaked. I know there
are more sophisticated programs out there but I've yet to find one myself.
I usually send a -pnm -scale 1/8 to djpeg and put *that* output through
ppmascii.
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