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From: bantamgobang@hotmail.com (JD Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation
Subject: Re: jpeg2ascii
Date: 21 Dec 2002 06:27:34 -0800
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bantamgobang@hotmail.com (JD Neff) wrote in message news:<6bdcc5e8.0212201239.12ee506@posting.google.com>...
> Harry Mason <spam@no.spam> wrote in message news:<slrnb060dc.s9b.spam@servalan.ecs.soton.ac.uk>...
> > Rob Bowmaker <robert.bowmaker@dse.gen.nz> wrote:
> > > "JD Neff" <bantamgobang@hotmail.com> 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.

There is now a seperate script up and running on my site that
generates pure ascii output. It can be seen at:

http://www.jdneff.com/ascii2.php