X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b986f8866b95ab98 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-20 12:39:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: bantamgobang@hotmail.com (JD Neff) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: jpeg2ascii Date: 20 Dec 2002 12:39:23 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 28 Message-ID: <6bdcc5e8.0212201239.12ee506@posting.google.com> References: <6bdcc5e8.0212190637.3eef2c19@posting.google.com> <5OqM9.5160$kq6.107712@news.xtra.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.251.109.166 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1040416763 5806 127.0.0.1 (20 Dec 2002 20:39:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Dec 2002 20:39:23 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21155 Harry Mason wrote in message news:... > Rob Bowmaker wrote: > > "JD Neff" wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I have created a jpeg2ascii image converter. > >> It is written in PHP and can be viewed at my site here: > >> > >> http://www.jdneff.com/index.php > > > > That isn't ASCII. That's HTML. > > > > ASCII art is a plain text file, without color tags. > > I was about to recommend "lynx -dump", then I saw the output. It's a neat > idea, but I can't actually see what it looks like at the moment as I'm on a > black-and-white text terminal. That is why on this group only plain text art > is called "ASCII art" and other techniques (HTML, ANSI, extended character > sets) are called "text art". > > Why not provide an alternative output style, which uses different characters > instead of colours? > > I promise I'll try your program properly as soon as I'm on a graphical > terminal :) Actually I am working on a version which will do true ascii-art i will definitely post a follow up once it is ready.