Subj : Re: png to .ans
To   : hollowone
From : fusion
Date : Sun Nov 09 2025 21:31:41

On 09 Nov 2025, hollowone said the following...
 
 ho> but I think the core question was that you have .PNG file of certain
 ho> resolution (most likely significantly higher than 80x25 limit of
 ho> standard terminal and convert it smartly into ANSI art using characters
 ho> available in the ASCII table + colors.

yeah.. images converted to ansi this way might put people off.. at least anyone who has spent time trying to spot "gif2ans" usage from people in ansi art groups.

 ho> That's why I suggested writing own .exe as a client/engine to display
 ho> this mag with a proper conversion handled by themselves.

yeah. i haven't seen a zine with it's own reader for a while. much less one with it's own built in mod player.. the good old days..

 ho> I'm aware of the limit. I live in the buble I moved my telnet/bbs client
 ho> to iTerm2 on MacOs which natively supports SIXEL :)

i duno, the concept is cool enough when it's used for a utility type reason (the weather door for example) but if i called a bbs and their answer screen was a sixel i might hang up lol. especially if it's text generated with one of those plugins GIMP used to be bundled with ;)

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