tierney@belegost.endor.cs.psu.edu (Michael B. Tierney) (10/31/90)
Does anyone out there know of a utility that will convert a picture (any popular format will do) to an ASCII-type picture? Something like this will come in handy for some things I want to work on. If anyone can throw any pointers my way, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Mike -- Michael B. Tierney "Once a great nation under God, now the Number tierney@endor.cs.psu.edu One PORNO DRUNKEN DRUG-INFESTED DEBTOR NATION!" MBT3@PSUVM.PSU.EDU -The Willard Preacher
norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) (10/31/90)
tierney@belegost.endor.cs.psu.edu (Michael B. Tierney) writes: > Does anyone out there know of a utility that will convert a picture >(any popular format will do) to an ASCII-type picture? Something like this >will come in handy for some things I want to work on. If anyone can throw >any pointers my way, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks, > Mike The pbmplus (for UNIX systems) has this capability. For instance, to convert a .gif file to ascii, a typical sequence is giftoppm picture.gif | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmreduce 4 | pbmtoascii | tr o ^ | tr \" o | tr " " # | tr \$ " " > picture.asc The reason for the "tr" statements at the end of the pipeline is that, strangely, whenever I try this the picture comes out inverted black for white. I tried inserting "pbminvert" into the pipeline, but it never worked, so I just did the transformation after ASCII conversion. The site at which I operate has the pbmplus package already installed, but I am sure it is available for anonymous ftp somewhere. Hope this helps. >-- >Michael B. Tierney "Once a great nation under God, now the Number >tierney@endor.cs.psu.edu One PORNO DRUNKEN DRUG-INFESTED DEBTOR NATION!" >MBT3@PSUVM.PSU.EDU -The Willard Preacher -- \ /\/\ /\/\ +-----------------------------+ /\/\ /\/\ /./ \\ /./\\\ /./\\\ /====|Norman Lin/norlin@129.15.20.2|===/./\\\ /./\\\ /./ \\\/./ \\\/./ \\\/./===| norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu|====/ \\\/./ \\\/./ \/\/ \/\/ \/\/ +-----------------------------+ \/\/ \/\/
sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg) (10/31/90)
In article <F5rx*3+2@cs.psu.edu> tierney@belegost.endor.cs.psu.edu (Michael B. Tierney) writes: | | Does anyone out there know of a utility that will convert a picture |(any popular format will do) to an ASCII-type picture? Something like this |will come in handy for some things I want to work on. If anyone can throw |any pointers my way, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks, | Mike Appendix A in Digital Image Processing, Gonzalez Rafael C and Wintz Paul has a listing of a fortran program that produce a 32 level image on a lineprinter. Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden. Internet: sow@cad.luth.se
jimf@pro-gateway.cts.com (Jim Ford, Co-SysOp) (11/02/90)
In-Reply-To: message from tierney@belegost.endor.cs.psu.edu What sort of picture. If you mean ANSI to an ASCII, that's easy. Super Debut is one of the best things around. If you mean something like a GIF, i don't think that's possible! =============================================================================== ProLine: jimf@pro-gateway Internet: jimf@pro-gateway.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-gateway!jimf ARPA: crash!pro-gateway!jimf@nosc.mil BITNET: jimf%pro-gateway.cts.com@nosc.mil ====================Pro-Gateway 214/644-5113 3/12/2400 baud====================
jimf@pro-gateway.cts.com (Jim Ford, Co-SysOp) (11/02/90)
In-Reply-To: message from norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu Really????? What does a GIF look like when it's converted to ASCII???? I didn't know that could be done! =============================================================================== ProLine: jimf@pro-gateway Internet: jimf@pro-gateway.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-gateway!jimf ARPA: crash!pro-gateway!jimf@nosc.mil BITNET: jimf%pro-gateway.cts.com@nosc.mil ====================Pro-Gateway 214/644-5113 3/12/2400 baud====================
sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) (11/03/90)
In article <5418@crash.cts.com> jimf@pro-gateway.cts.com (Jim Ford, Co-SysOp) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu > >Really????? What does a GIF look like when it's converted to ASCII???? I >didn't know that could be done! > Actually, it TELLS you what it would display if it could. (You oughta SEE some of the results you get off of alt.sex.pictures...Filthiest language you've EVER seen.) :-) ______________________________________________________________________________ Bob Davis, UofALA'66 \\ INTERNET : sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com | _ _ | Harris Corporation, ESS \\ UUCP : ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!sonny |_| |_| | | Advanced Technology Dept.\\ AETHER : K4VNO |==============|_/\/\/\|_| PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 \\ VOICE : (407) 727-5886 | I SPEAK ONLY | |_| |_| | Melbourne, FL 32902 \\ FAX : (407) 729-2537 | FOR MYSELF. |_________|