X-Google-Thread: f996b,b9716e59e5fa9c6d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:13:40 +0200 From: Markus Gebhard User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: image to ascii converter that takes the shape of character into account References: <598fd91c-97a7-41c1-ad68-a25d93b98e75@p39g2000prm.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <598fd91c-97a7-41c1-ad68-a25d93b98e75@p39g2000prm.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 155 Message-ID: <4862b50c$0$6560$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jun 2008 23:13:48 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: a738d32c.newsspool3.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=T?McF=Q^Z^V384Fo<]lROoR18kFU[:=6<;7_VN5FhmDcKMGl8: X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.ascii-art:109 Hi, with JavE6.0rc1 using "Edge Detection" conversion algorithm I get this result: _,,--- _.-' ,' ,' _,.----"`----._ ,' ,' \ ,' ,' ,,-----.. | ,- .' / ,'. __.. | | ,-' ,-' ,. | | / '`' ,' / / ,' ,-' ,-' | | | ,' _' / ,' ,-' ,' | `. `----' ,' ,' ,' ,' `-' \ `--.....--' ,' ,' ,' ,' \ ,-' ,' ,-' ,' `-.._____,,.--' / / ,' - ,' ,' ,' ,' ,' ,' ,' / ,' / / < .<' / , |-> / .^ / ,' ,' ,[ / / ,'| / / || _/ .' / |, ,' . ,'| ' | ,' || <`,' .\ , . / ,' | ',' || / | / / / / , | / | .' | | / '-------.._ ,.. ,'. /| / /' ,-' | ``- / | / ,-' / / /\ ,'.' / ,' | ,' / `. / | / /' `..,' ' ` / '/ . ..-------'' , ,\ ,._ .' '.' | \ | ,' | | ,' | :`..L... +^\ | / | | / | __ / \ /,' '-''' < (I have split up and rearanged the conversion result w/o altering its ascii content, because I am pretty sure the lines would break otherwise) Regards, Markus forward-252171415@anonymous.cybertrench.com wrote: > Hi. > > A couple of years ago, there was a challenge for the best ascii art > generator > (image to ascii art) I don't know the results though. > > I searched the net, but all stuff I found works by 'character > brightness' and treats characters as pixels. The result is either very > huge images - loss of all details, nothing that would ever fit into an > neat email signature or similar. > Hand creating is always an option of course, but I would like to know > if anyone knows a good program for line-art to ASCII conversion. > > Years ago I wrote my own software for this, its a part of motiontrack > (http://motiontrack.sourceforge.net) and attempts to find the best > possible ASCII character for every part of the image by weighted > pattern matching. > > I am thinking about getting that project out of the fridge and > improving it a bit. Is there anything out there that's better, so I > can compare results? > > > regards > > Corvus > > PS: obascii : > > this is the (crappy) source image > http://cybertrench.com/test2.png > > this is the result of a conversion: > >> menhance test2.png -q 75 -s 210 x.png >/dev/null 2>&1; >> masciiart x.png 2>/dev/null |sed -e 's/^/> /' >> >> _/ >> _/' ,/' >> /' ," ,*' >> _we^^m _/ ,/ ,/ >> _m^~ j' ,/ ,/ >> _*' _/ _/ _/' >> _/' ,' /' /' >> j' _,am*mm--ww_ p' ,~ ," >> p' w^~ ~\_ _f /' /' >> p ," " ,' _/ _/ >> j' / _mmmemw_ l j' j' j' >> ' f _/' \ I j' / / >> ] j p' l_a*mq` L f ' _/ / >> ' ' j' #L F j' q' _, ,' j' >> j j I ~ / f f j@ ,' /' >> I t j~ _f / jQ' r' / >> | b_ "^^^" _a' / j#F ' f >> ] "w,_ __jm~ _/ q#f _ ,' >> , ~"""~~ _/' _## Q ~ >> ~w _/' /dV^ _@ / >> \w_ __m^' { #, # & >> ~"^^mm^"~ ` q@I #' f >> / #Q[ d' _A , , >> _^ Jfq j( _g' q ' _' >> ' f j@1 #' ._______ -l & f >> ` j _#"B' &' ~~"g _jM^w j 1 qQ f >> / ' /A' # jY a' r~ ' j d^^ fI / >> / 7 j0Y f # _/ p f H_ j I q' >> ' jM ' j' #H /' j' j j ] ' I [ >> 7 /Y # #'j, ,' ! j' I \_ I [j >> '/7 f ,/f [[ _/ [__,/ ' \_ j' Lf >> ]/ ' ' ,jMY N j' __,, ~~~ ` I " >> 7'< j',#'j' N ^^^^^"""~~~ >> '/ F d' [ |7 >> j j'j' d ]E >> ' ##' RI >> ` j#' II , , j' >> 4' N' _ ' /7 >> f j] l\w ] / I >> # II I [ I J ' >> /' j I ' L g__j_ >> j ] Lj/ j _' ~T~""' >> ' ' 4~"! I f ] >> / j f [ f _ >> ' f j j _,mem^ j ` >> ' mM |"~ ` >> j >> I >> ' > > (i hope google news doesnt mess this up)