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15 How can I make Gray Scale pictures?
You can make them from scratch if you are a very good ASCII
artist. An easier way is to use a converter program. There's
ASCGIF, Gifscii (with versions for many systems), ANSIrez,
"ansicv22", GIF2ANSI, and "gif2txt" for the PC.
There's also the HyperCard stack called "asciipicter". It allows
you to draw a picture, and convert it to ASCII art. This is for the
Macintosh.
These programs make an ASCII pic from any GIF (Graphics
Interchange Format) image (or image you can convert to a GIF). Most
converters require the GIF to be in 87a format. GIFs in 89a format,
must be converted to 87a format first.
The exception to the GIF converters is a bitmap converter for
Windows called Pixel Characterizer (version 0.5) by Shi Y Chen.
16 Where can I get Gray Scale converters?
You can get Gifscii for many systems, and the source code from:
o FTP Sites:
Chris' FTP site
-> Host: ftp.ncsu.edu
Path: pub/ncsu/chking/Archive
URL: ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/ncsu/chking
Scarecrow's FTP Site
-> Host: ftp.wwa.com
Path: pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii
URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii
Also accessible through the Scarecrow's Gopher and WWW sites.
Both Chris' and Scarcecrow's sites have Gifscii 2.2 for
MSDOS, Unix (Sun), Macintosh, Amiga, Digital Alpha,
Digital VAX, as well as the c-source code. Scarecrow's
site also has "ansicv22.zip", "ansirez1.zip", and
"asciipicter.sit.hqx" (HyperCard stack).
You can get ASCGIF from:
o FTP Sites:
-> Host: usc.edu
Path: archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
URL: ftp://usc.edu/archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
Scarecrow's FTP Site
-> Host: ftp.wwa.com
Path: pub/Scarecrow/Misc
URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Misc
Also accessible through the Scarecrow's Gopher and WWW sites.
-> Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu
Path: usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
URL: ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume30/ascgif
You can get GIF2ANSI and "gif2txt" from:
o BBS Sites:
-> BBS: Exec-PC (414) 789-4210
File: GIF2ANSI.ZIP, in the "Mahoney MS-DOS" file collection.
-> BBS: Aquila BBS (708) 820-8344]
File: gif2txt.zip
You can get the GDS GIF-JPEG to ANSI (for DOS) at:
o FTP Sites:
-> Host: ftp.netcom.com
Path: pub/ph/photodex