X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c8b65d22e2af41ee X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-25 16:35:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsxfer.eecs.umich.edu!panix!news.panix.com!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Image2Ascii Competition update Date: 25 Jun 2001 23:35:14 GMT Organization: Some absurd concept Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <3B33257D.C78C9AA1@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <3b3465ed.1607084@news.ntlworld.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 993512114 10092 166.84.0.226 (25 Jun 2001 23:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jun 2001 23:35:14 GMT X-Files: Used for sharpening claws and teeth on your hawk and hacksaw X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB X-Usenet-II: Because it is time for October. Encrypted: double rot-13 X-Newsreader: Sony Playstation 5.0MIPS Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6378 In alt.ascii-art, Stuart Moore wrote: > Had another look through, would I be right in thinking that pgmtoascii > produced text optimised for black backgound/white text? If so any chance you > can change the settings so it can be seen in it's natural format? (Don't > think anyone thought of this when we were looking at rules did we?) You would be right in thinking that. But when I processed the contest images, one thing I considered was "Which version looks better? White on Black or Black on White?" and then submitted the one of those I liked better. (I ran pnminvert on the source images to produce the black on white versions.) Elijah ------ made six ascii versions in each size for each image