I’m sure that you’ve seen ASCII art similar to the image pictured above. It’s where someone takes a photo and arranges characters in a precise way to accurately represent the original image. Take our logo for example, in the above image a bunch of characters and spaces were placed next to each other until they created something that looked right.
Doing this can be a painstaking process, and frankly it is something that I would never want to do myself. The logo that I created above was done using a service called Photo2Text, where all you have to do is input an image and it will spit out a text file for you to download. You just open that file up in Notepad (with wordwrap turned off) and you’ll see a masterpiece.
I was actually having some fun with this after downloading the Firefox extension, which lets you right-click on any image on the Internet and have it converted to ASCII art. I found a few images to convert and here are the results:
Note: I reduced the font size to 4 so that the images could easily be seen. The larger the font size you pick in Notepad the further away you’ll need to be to recognize the image.
Eiffel Tower:
2009 Camaro:
Michael Jordan:
See how easy it was for me to become an ASCII art pro? Go ahead and grab some photos to do this with and head on over to the Photo2Text site. You’ll be impressing your friends in no time, and if you find yourself using it more than you thought it might be beneficial to install the Firefox extension.
Source: Firefox Facts
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The coolest thing I’ve found is if you use http://www.yubnub.org/ , you can type in “Ascii” + a word or phrase and it’ll spit it out that word or phrase in around 100 different ascii styles. It’s really cool.
Though obviously no good if you want to work with pictures…
Just Thinking whether i can use this to create those fancy NFO files ive seen on so many occasions. Btw Would these text files look any better if viewed in a dedicated NFO viewer like Damn NFO viewer or GetDiz?
Good for Gmail signature!
http://www.photo2text.com/down.....th%20Vader
Not the best of images, but I use that one in a lot of places. Rather cool anyway, wonder if cracking groups will start using this for their logos.
I still haven’t figured out why…but I find that quite amusing. It was fun to see all of the different styles they have.
You might actually be able to use this to create those NFO files, but I’m not sure if it looks better in a NFO viewer.
Only if you want everyone to know what a geek you are!