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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:39:13 +0200
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TranslucentAmoebae wrote:
> On Mar 28, 10:50 am, "viralux" <vira...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone know where i can get a half decent Ascii art programme  or
>> plugin (for photoshop CS)  for Mac OSX (10.4)   the only (non-Windows)
>> ones ive found are ultra basic with no real controls   very
>> frustrating !!
> 
> This program isn't for Mac or Wintels....
> But it's a fine FINE program that allows predigitalized/ prebinarized
> images to be photoAsciiized... with a randomized grey scale so that
> the same amount of grey pixelation doesn't reoccur over and over
> again... this randomization process creates an additioinal layer of
> 'noise' that genuinely enhances the underlying detail...???
> The program was written for the HP48 gx ( handheld programable
> calculator...! )
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.hp48/browse_thread/thread/5c53a8aa4f182095/0b4e5d1405adde83?lnk=gst&q=ASCII+&rnum=10&hl=en#0b4e5d1405adde83

I prefer Jave ( www.jave.de ) which is a photoshop-like drawing program for
making ascii-art. It's written in Java so it's multi-platform. I've never
tried it on a Mac but it sound run just as well as it does on Windows and Linux.