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Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@haey.ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> this reminded me of the classic "lenna" image used in compression and
> image processing research:
> 
>   http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna.shtml
> 
> I don't have the prowess to render her into ascii-art myself, but it
> would be a very appropriate picture to do, I think.

Did this a while back:

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        |      ,      _-Y-';--;-'       _.-'  /
        \    ,     ,';/,/'//,'       ,-'    ,'
         \       ,'(</|//-,'          q.  -'
          \    ,'///X||`,'    , '     `ML |
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    |///||||,`/// /MMM         `" -'  /Miii`.
  ,;||/|`\\\_.,',;MNWM         __..  jMMiii |
 // J|Y|\\\\\/ /QMYMNML     `":---,'cMMMiii|
   //|||\ X||Y;MMMMMMNML.      `"' jMMMKiii|
 ,/||Z||\\-\'-.MRHMNMMMMF>--     -LMMMMEiii|
'|/||;\|\-/\\\<-HHMMMMMNA           `"qMiii'
 ||||`'-'\\\\\\\\MHMMMF H              `!ii
 ||/|/|\`\|\)|| |HHMMMl H                !i
 ||||'|/\||/Y/- -.qMMR  J                `!
 ||-'/|X\//L-,`/QBbMF  j'                 |
 //-//|\\\|`\\\AMMMF  v'                  \
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Perhaps I should have used a conversion algorithm. It seems somehow wrong to
asciify this picture by hand; it's probably been processed automatically
more times than any other picture.

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