X-Google-Thread: 13235db79e,4cfd1de71886edfe X-Google-Attributes: gid13235db79e,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:11:12 +0200 From: Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Contour map to ASCII conversion? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4a6d6124$0$15880$edfadb0f@dtext01.news.tele.dk> Organization: TDC Totalloesninger NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.63.124.226 X-Trace: 1248682276 dtext01.news.tele.dk 15880 87.63.124.226:23126 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: g2news2.google.com alt.ascii-art:1129 SharkD wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone know of a tool that might be able to convert geographic > contour maps to ASCII art? > > Info on contour maps: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contour_map > > Example output: > > ________________ > / _____ \ > | | \ | > | \______/ ______/ > \_________/ > > > Thanks! > > -Mike > If the map is in a common image format and not a vector format then JavE is your best bet. http://www.jave.de Use the Image2Ascii tool: http://www.jave.de/screenshots/scr_i2a2.gif It has many different algorithms for conversion. It depends on the image what algorithm is best but in your case I would guess that one of the B/W algorithms might produce the best result. - CeeJay