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From: Harry Mason <spamblock@no.spam>
Subject: Re: images to ascii conversion algorithm ?
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:44:23 +0200, Toni W Ruottu <twruottu@cs.Helsinki.FI>
wrote:
>  I'm not sure if this helps you,
>  but why not make it understand color.
>  
>  (R+G+B)/3 is the amount of color.
>  The colors with same amount of color are equaly dark/bright.

This isn't actually true, because the brightness you see is dependent on your
perception and the way your eyes respond to colour. There are different
colour spaces which more accurately represent percieved brightness, such as
Lab colour.

I don't suppose this will make much difference when converted to ascii-art
though.

ObAscii:

       /\       
      /  \      
     /,--.\     
    /< () >\    
   /  `--'  \   
  /          \  
 /   fnord?   \ 
/______________\

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Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)