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From: guckes@banach.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: how do u do ....?
Date: 1997/02/05
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cabrig@essex.ac.uk (Briggs C A):
> do ASCII artists type all the pictures or do they create them from software,
> converting from a b/w image or something?  I mean, it's really amazing to
> make these pictures. I'm just curious to know. Maybe the answer is top secret.

It's not that secret.  Actually, it's pretty simple:

(1)  Take your camera and shoot some pics.
(2)  Scan the photos.
(3)  Convert them to JPEGs.
(4)  Convert the JPEGs to GIFs.  (tough)
(5)  Convert the GIFs to TIFFs.
(6)  Convert the TIFFs to Bitmaps.
(7)  Convert the Bitmaps to PostScript.
(7)  uuencode the PostScript.
(9)  Use an editor to fine-tune the uuencoded data.
(10) Post it ice-cold to alt.ascii.art.

Ta-dah!

Sven  [easy as pie]