X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,bd38886e2812d092 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-26 09:10:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: images to ascii conversion algorithm ? Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:13:54 -0800 Organization: (none) Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1014743328 06 14555 CYnsTDjbSCAUCs 020226 17:08:48 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 038100090476-0001@t-dialin.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:15061 > (R+G+B)/3 is the amount of color. If you take into account the natural way of viewing pictures (as they are interpreted by your brain), you have to double the green amount, so (R+G+G+B)/4 > My friend did a Basic prog that converts 256c PCX:ses to Ascii Shades. That's nothing special. > Why not to create a program that would draw and image in Ascii-lineart. That's way more diff�cult. Ask Markus Gebhard on his attempts to do this with good results. > ((Very bad music honestly.)) Agreed ;) Joey -- (\_ | news:de.alt.rec.ascii-art _/) _." '; __| __, ,_ __, __, .' "._ /( )h\ / | / | / | / |-----/ | (/( )\ ctr___/ \|__ \_/|_/\_/|_/ |_/\_/|_/ \_/|_/ __|/ \__