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From: Markus Gebhard <ukgh@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Subject: Image to Ascii Competition (was: -Very Simple Java JPG to ASCII
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:42:49 +0200
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Stuart Moore wrote:
> What I would find more interesting as far as image > ascii goes is a
> "competition" where several people convert the same image(s) using their
> preffered converters, to give us a full comparison of the results.

Hey, this sounds like a very good idea. What about that:
 In a first step people should suggest bitmap images for the
competition. Those images will be presented on the web and after a given
time people can vote for those images, so that there are not too many
different images. Finally people can send their contributions and they
will be made public on the competition homepage.
I think it would make sense to prescribe the size of the ascii result
(maybe in different steps like a width of 50,80,160) to make them
comparable.
What do you think about it?

> Anyone with web space willing to host something like that?

I have enough space left on my site (>10MB) and would be proud to host
it.
What about others, are there enough people interested in such kind of
competition? Any suggestions for the rules, etc.?

Markus

PS: I think it was most interesting if people would not only use those
software converters but also create or refine those images by hand.