[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

[blueplanetdesign]

Leonardo-

Can you post an example?

[Leonardo]

The example that I saw... I saw it months ago let me see if I can find something

leo

[tom]

Basically it's called ASCII Art.

You can find more information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art

...and an application here:
http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/

Also there is an old alternative, ANSI Art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art

And here's something really crazy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_stereogram
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aa3d/

[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

[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

[tom]

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

[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!

[tom]

Chuck Close

Well said!

[blueplanetdesign]

Have a look here... http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa294.htm

[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

[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