X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,25fb686ac46c0d5d X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-29 23:25:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lios!news.gweep.ca!not-for-mail From: boris_a_g@hotmail.com (boris) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Re: [DIS] A little history question Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 35 Sender: robomod@lios.aq2.gweep.ca Approved: rec-arts-ascii-moderator@gweep.ca Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: lios.aq2.gweep.ca 1043911510 8096 127.0.0.1 (30 Jan 2003 07:25:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@lios.aq2.gweep.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:25:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-Date: 29 Jan 2003 23:24:52 -0800 X-Gweep-Cleanmime: quoted=83% miswrapped=13% Xref: archiver1.google.com rec.arts.ascii:275 look here for program bg_ascii: http://www.mazaika.com/ when used in black/white mode it use sub-cell detail analysis. -boris google@inio.org (Ian Rickard) wrote in message news:... > This may seem like a bit of a weird question, but here we go: > > Does anyone know of ASCII-Art generation software that considered > sub-character source image detail and was publicly available in or > before October 1996? > > The earliest occurrence that I was able to find with a brief search > was ASCIIMac, released in 1998. It did sub-character analysis and > even did it in real time. I'm reasonably sure that if someone was > doing it real-time then, someone else had to have been doing it on > still images long before that. > > > As a sample of what I'm talking about, here's what the output might > look like given an input of a black skewed triangle on a white > background. On the left is what the output from the kind of software > I'm interested would look like. On the right is the output of what > the much simpler algorithms that were around as early as the 70s would > generate. > > sub-cell detail simple brightness > '#$$h, .:MM:. > '#$h, .:M:. > '#h, .::. > '\. .:.