Comments on: Asciify: ASCII art library

By: ArthurBlake

ArthurBlake — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:25:40 +0000

To see the entire Star Wars movie in Ascii Art:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

By: milancole

milancole — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:42:50 +0000

Nice find… I remember spending hours working on little pieces of Ascii art many years ago.

By: bluepower

bluepower — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:58:11 +0000

Bad “signature”, don’t make fun with the serious TIBET situation!

Anyway, the library is so cool.

By: CupBoy

CupBoy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:45:30 +0000

And here's one using js and the canvas tag to turn images into ascii art: http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/jsascii/

By: polterguy

polterguy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:03:58 +0000

And here’s a version built on top of web standards like HTML, CSS and JavaScript;
http://ajaxwidgets.com/Blogs/system_rss/ascii_art_generator_ajaxified.bb
And the actual generator;
http://ajaxwidgets.com/Ascii-Art/AsciiArt.aspx

By: tetburr

tetburr — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:52:09 +0000

Can anyone think of a good reason why this couldn’t be used as part of a simple, automated, low bandwidth Captcha technology:
1 – Generate random text on the server, save text and identifier.
2 – Convert text to an image (using ImageMagick or similar).
3 – Convert image to ascii art (using asciify).
4 – Send ascii art to user, with hidden identifier for comparison upon submission.

I can see two problems:
1 – Reverse engineering back to real text may be too easy, although there will be information loss when converting initially. Extra difficulty could be created by adding an actual image behind the text before asciifying.
2 – Ascii art representing actual text may be difficult for a human to decypher , especially with an image behind it, so the ascii art may need to be quite large on the page.

By: Carbon43

Carbon43 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:40:41 +0000

Free Tibet! ^_^

I think he was observing the need for a free tibet, while being humorous. Humor is one of the most persuasive argumentative techniques. :)

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:04:44 +0000

On a related note, there's a cool Matrix ASCII animated sequence (elements shown/hidden via Javascript) here.

By: PHPAugusta

PHPAugusta — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:49:42 +0000

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/*+with+any+tibet+of+equal+or+greater+value+/-/pd_13630063?CMP=KNC-F-ALL

By: AndrewHerron

AndrewHerron — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:47:45 +0000

Do you really think that “sig” needed to be jested about? There are riots right, as we speak, where people are being beaten and possibly killed. I’m not trying to get on a soap box but trivializing the Tibet situation probably isn’t very conscientious.

As for the lib… Cool!