http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/ The most kick-ass photo tips, DIY projects, and gear Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:15:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76846 Wed, 30 May 2007 01:50:58 +0000 http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76846 [...] Photojojo shows you how you can turn any photo you have into letters and numbers with ASCII art. Link. [...] […] Photojojo shows you how you can turn any photo you have into letters and numbers with ASCII art. Link. […]

]]> http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76758 Tue, 29 May 2007 12:39:24 +0000 http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76758 [...] If you’re old-skool like us, you remember hurrying home from school, heading straight for your room, and hunching over your keyboard to log into your favorite MUD, slay dragons, and find treasure. [...] […] If you’re old-skool like us, you remember hurrying home from school, heading straight for your room, and hunching over your keyboard to log into your favorite MUD, slay dragons, and find treasure. […]

]]> http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76666 Tue, 29 May 2007 03:03:36 +0000 http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76666 [...] Following up on our newsletter about turning photos into ASCII art, reader Marc Perton links to the origins of ASCII art as instructions for typewriters. [...] […] Following up on our newsletter about turning photos into ASCII art, reader Marc Perton links to the origins of ASCII art as instructions for typewriters. […]

]]> http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76652 Tue, 29 May 2007 00:52:42 +0000 http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76652 [...] Photojojo—a great site filled with tips not about photography but about neat things to do with photos—has a link to a service that can turn any photo into ASCII art. I don’t think this is new, but it’s cool nevertheless. However, I was struck by something in the post about the “old-skool” days of ASCII graphics: It was a simpler time. A time when computers didn’t have fancy graphics and candy-colored buttons, and if they wanted to show you a cranky green ogre, they didn’t use CG. They used our friends “|”, “”, “/”, and “.” All true, of course. But to kick it really old skool, you’ve gotta do ASCII art the way I first learned it, back in I.S. 180: By hand on a manual typewriter. Doing ASCII art this way was incredibly tedious, since you basically had to type in rows of characters based on an instruction sheet. Make a mistake and you were toast (well, there was always Ko-Rec-Type). But the end results were great, and made it worth all the tedium. Sure, just a few years later, the technology to do this instantly and effortlessly would be available to just about anyone. But back in the day, the idea of typing a sheet of random characters and having it turn into a picture of Charlie Brown or a Thanksgiving turkey was amazingly cool. That, and it let the typing teacher kick back and not have to teach us anything new for a few lessons each term. [...] […] Photojojo—a great site filled with tips not about photography but about neat things to do with photos—has a link to a service that can turn any photo into ASCII art. I don’t think this is new, but it’s cool nevertheless. However, I was struck by something in the post about the “old-skool” days of ASCII graphics: It was a simpler time. A time when computers didn’t have fancy graphics and candy-colored buttons, and if they wanted to show you a cranky green ogre, they didn’t use CG. They used our friends “|”, “”, “/”, and “.” All true, of course. But to kick it really old skool, you’ve gotta do ASCII art the way I first learned it, back in I.S. 180: By hand on a manual typewriter. Doing ASCII art this way was incredibly tedious, since you basically had to type in rows of characters based on an instruction sheet. Make a mistake and you were toast (well, there was always Ko-Rec-Type). But the end results were great, and made it worth all the tedium. Sure, just a few years later, the technology to do this instantly and effortlessly would be available to just about anyone. But back in the day, the idea of typing a sheet of random characters and having it turn into a picture of Charlie Brown or a Thanksgiving turkey was amazingly cool. That, and it let the typing teacher kick back and not have to teach us anything new for a few lessons each term. […]

]]> http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76591 Mon, 28 May 2007 12:18:37 +0000 http://photojojo.com/content/websites/how-to-convert-photos-to-ascii-art/#comment-76591 [...] Read More… [...] […] Read More… […]

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