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Pictures done out of letters and characters...
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:23 pm
by Leonardo
Have you guys ever seen this drawings made with just letters / characters.... some of them are direct translation of photos.
How do they do them, and where can I download that program
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:38 pm
by blueplanetdesign
Leonardo-
Can you post an example?
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:45 pm
by Leonardo
The example that I saw... I saw it months ago
let me see if I can find something
leo
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:50 pm
by tom
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:58 pm
by blueplanetdesign
I think Leonardo is making reference to images composed of other images...
In this case, the individual pixels (or appearance of) are made up
of smaller photo images. Each pixel, or smaller photo image has the
overall relative color value of a cooresponding single pixel, thereby
giving the impression of sameness...that make sense?
Probably not.
Leonardo...show us an example!
bpd
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:02 pm
by markps
All this is quite old... I remember on my PC-XT computer the only graphics you could have is ASCII art
There was a Madona picture that everyone had on their cubicle's wall. And of course the only printer available was a dot matrix character printers.
Today I was quite impressed with
http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/index.html (XAWTV) on linux... you can generate real time tv ASCII art! Watching tv on ASCII is't fun but it is very cool
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:11 pm
by tom
blueplanetdesign wrote:I think Leonardo is making reference to images composed of other images...
If that's the question, here's the most complicated one I know:
http://www.aolej.com/mosaic/gallery.htm
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:19 pm
by blueplanetdesign
Yes Tom, that's what I had envisioned as the answer...
http://www.aolej.com/mosaic/gallery.htm
For the adventuresome, do a google search for the portrait work
of Chuck Close, an influential person in my life.
His early portrait work is most photo-real!
His more recent work follows the idea I expressed, but with
some interesting variation. Check it out. You'll be glad you did!
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:23 pm
by tom
blueplanetdesign wrote:Chuck Close
Well said!
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:39 pm
by blueplanetdesign
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:48 pm
by Leonardo
wow, pretty good stuff guys...
Tom, that was exactly what I was looking for
bpd, that was not it.... but very cool indeed! I'm glad you brough that one up too
leo
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:50 pm
by markps
I was trying to find the first ones I've seen... some of these date as old as 1975!
http://the.sunnyspot.org/asciiart/gallery/saaas1.html