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Google Art Creator
Li0nHeart writes: "Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out. Because Google colorizes search-terms you can make very interesting ascii art in the groups." Here is a website dedicated to creating this art and some examples.
Whoever created this site is in serius need of a real job or a demanding girlfriend.
Some people just have way too much time on their hands.
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oooohhh.. I just love that ASCII pr0n, all 20 gigs of it!
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... is how long until the goatse ascii image tunrs up?
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that is a hack. Absolutely without a worthwhile purpose, an intellectual exercise that has taken something designed for one thing and perverted it for another purpose entirely. Five stars!
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This is creativity... so simple, yet so clever. I like it :)
Will work for bandwidth
Sure I think its cool that someone figured out you could do this. But, lets just say that I think that people have too much time on their hands. Back in the BBS days, people would make some awesome ascii art. In all honesty, this is nice but it doesn't comapre to some of the stuff I have seen back in the day.
'nuff said
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
Going to the main site (broswer experiments), you can quickly find yourself face to face with an online version of that Microsoft paperclip thingy. Great.
is there gonna be somehting like alt.images.ascii.google on the near horizon??
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Lynx won't render them correctly due to its weird colors. Ascii art back in the day was great since it could be seen anywhere.
Well, since the google admins even let you see all the interface messages in Klingon or Elmer Fudd if you like, they might just love the idea... :-)
With all the discussions on the FC mailoing list about the art work not fitting together, this should be a great standard for every body to follow, with buy an expenive 3D modeler or Photshop!
Yep, I'm an old fuddy-duddy.
This has gotta be taxing on usenet (I don't know if this message will cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, but it probably costs something) as well as Google, for no real good reason.
If only these people could've used their talents to come up with a real way to help humanity.
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ASCII Quake!!!
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
I think aalib get's my reward for geekiest thing ever. I mean, it took ascii art, which is in itself pretty geeky, and single-handedly made it completely obsolete. You can render anything with aalib, your pr0n included, and it comes out as beautiful ascii art. What more could you ask for?
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IMO, the best thing from the BBS days was the top-notch ANSI art -- the stuff that took baseline ASCII and added ANSI color and extended characters to make some really cool stuff. Some of those guys could create some amazing images (anyone remember iCE, ACiD, and all those groups?). Actually, iCE is still around and cranking out some top-quality ANSI -- www.ice.org. Check 'em out, pretty impressive.
Umm, and people who spend their time reading slashdot are?
Step 1: Make a cool site that gives people the capability to create ASCII pictures easily distributed worldwide through Usenet and visible with the Google toolbar. .....
Step 2: Submit to the hordes at Slashdot.
Step 3:
Step 4: Profit!!
There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that do not.
These are very minor compared to entire CD images being posted on usenet every day.
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You mean like this?
Back in my day, we had punch cards. We could use the 029 to make pictures with the holes. If by some rare good fortune we had access to the printer, we didn't have any ASCII art. We had EBCDIC art. And liked it.
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"Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out."
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Looks like his site is Slashdotted. However, since the art is all based on google groups, it's still a long way from slashdotted. :)
Here's what he's come up with:
Bart
Lincoln
Spam
Stupid like a fox!
ASCII Pr0n
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Since the host already seems to be down, I'm feeling a bit sadistic and have thrown up my own mirror (running of my home cable modem!):
http://rufus.d2g.com:8080/~rufus/googleascii.html
With all these Google stories in the past couple of months, isn't it about time we had a "Google" topic category? (yeah, it's OT, deal with it) :)
I dunno, seems to make sense to me. (heck, we have a Mac OS 9 category that's had what... three stories?)
I even made the icons:
Google Topic Icon
Sample Screenshot
It might be a bit small, but you get the idea
Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes!
:)
Search for: aa ae ai ao au ea ee ei eo "Calvin"
in about 3-9 hours.
Ahhhh... stupid search engine tricks! Someone should right a book about this shit.
TxtImg directly converts JPG and GIF images into text images. It doesn't use intensities -- it actually correlates the font image with the original image.
Its just his opinion, I don't know what is wrong with you people.
So, you've been able to do that, like, what, twice now?
yeah about twice i think.
Sorry, I meant they are not all that long.
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Ah, yes, and the ANSI animations - quite possible because of the tediously slow data transfer rates of the day. On the BBS we ran, The Igmeister Zone, we spruced up the code so every once in awhile when the user least expected it, an ANSI animation of the Energizer Bunny would come marching across the screen - of course right around the time they came out with the bunny.
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I posted /. about this "art form" about a week ago and it never made it on.
I explained how I made the pictures I did to a couple of people and I posted it to alt.design.graphics.
http://shorterlink.com/?S3QJ38
I really isn't that hard to do, nor is it all that time consuming. It takes about an hour to get it all together.
Google Weblog, http://google.blogspace.com/ has a link to the actual first piece of "art", "sun sky land rock brightflowers darkerock lushgrass"
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Long live ATASCII!!! Long Live Atari!!!!
Not that I don't appreciate ASCII/ANSI art... in fact, I do appreciate it. However, this stuff sucks. Compare to this guy's ASCII interpretations of Disney characters. While the novelty of Google highlighting the letters in cute, it's not very eye catching, IMO. Bring back the BBS art scene! Bring back ANSI art!
There's also an ancient app called "ACiD Draw" ... I have a copy lying around somewhere; works great :] I think it can still be found from Google, but I haven't looked in ages...
Search Google Groups for
aa ae ai ao au ea ee ei eo "Google"
TheDraw will always remain the best ANSi editor of all time.
ACiD, iCE and the myriads of smaller groups were probably best known for making ANSI ads for "elite" boards. That was the term used for a BBS carrying pirated software... Sadly, this reminds me that people were already pirating programs online -- back in the days when 2400 baud was considered high speed.
Cheers.
Oldest and still the best
You know, slashdot must be the only site on the internet that can bring down a server who's largest source of graphics comes in ASCII form.
Wrong. Thedraw's only supported 25line Ansi, or was it 50? AcidDraw had a 1000 line limit, along with almost all of TheDraw's features. It would even let you view the ANSI as a GIF, meaning it would basically just raise the resolution on the picture. It was pretty sweet.
Note, I'm not even saying that AcidDraw was better than TheDraw, Hooptie's program was the best, and I can't even remember what the heck it was called. How do I know all of this? Click on my name to view my info, you'll see.
-- Dan
alt.ascii-art was one of the first newsgroups I ever posted to. A search on Google Groups returns a post showing my first attempt at ascii art!
It appears to be a Mac Classic. I'm not sure whether it's thinking or exploding.
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wouldn't this properly be called unicode art?
But from the perspective of an ANSi artist, I'm sure that AcidDraw and the other editors meant for artists were more convenient. However, speaking as an ex-SysOp (for 7 years) I can assure you that SysOps preferred TheDraw and its interface -- simple yet powerful.
As a programmer, I also used it to draw menus and backgrounds for my text mode apps. It could save in many useful formats, such as straight to C or Pascal source.
Non-artists had no use for huge line limits, since BBS screens and textmode apps were limited to 25 lines... Unless of course you really wished to annoy your users. ;)
ftp.mimic.ca features an archive of almost every ascii pack created, be sure to check out the mimic and remorse directories.
Thuglife.org has tools you'll need to view and draw (aciddraw) as well as web based access to the ascii archive. enjoy.
Next thing you know: a whole thread dedicated to Google artwork.
Oh, by the way: this guy seems to promote two web sites about (you guessed it) travelling, you might want to see promoting tourism and the world's best travel search engine. (Hope this helps him :)
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In the Art scene (Ansi/Ascii), it was not uncommon for us to have a 1000 line banner as an entrance onto the BBS. For kicks, you might want to check out some of the old Acidpacks from cdrom.com (ftp.cdrom.com/pub/artpacks). 1996 was probably my favorite year.
Indeed, I did forget that TheDraw saved to C/Pascal, now that I think about it, it was also the only one to let you record animations. Hooptie's drawing program may have also let you do animation, but it's been so long that I can't remember.
All in all, good memories. Let me also give you a couple of my favorite ansi artists (well, favorite off the top of my head). Lord Jazz, Killahertz, Beastie, Jed... hrm, well, go look at those, while you're looking, you will see plenty ;)
-- Dan
art using graphs on statistics of sites which get /.ed?
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we spruced up the code so every once in awhile when the user least expected it, an ANSI animation of the Energizer Bunny [energizer.com] would come marching across the screen
This reminds me of NetBunny an old Mac system extension that if installed on a group of macs on a LAN would send the bunny marching across the LAN moving from screen to screen.
Ever had to enter the ANSI escape sequences manually in DOS's edit? ;)
Even though I wasn't in the scene, the name Lord Jazz does ring a bell... I'll be sure to look for the others. I still have lots of ACiD packs stored away on backup tapes somewhere, as I used to offer them for download on my board.
Cheers.
Well, as the site seems slashdotted, you might try out the Google mirror.
I doubt, therefore I may be.
not sadistic...
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
done with aalib-genarated ascii-art movies played by a java-applet: http://www.spatialknowledge.com/projects/opoffice/ mirror/index.html
Step 1: People agree that sz is yellow, xq is red, etc... ..." returns all pics encoded with that scheme, including pics encoded with only a subset of the colors.
Step 2: Everybody who does this art puts the entire color code in their art so searching google for "sz xq ae pz
Step 3: Make a website or newsgroup or bulliten board with links to the pictures.
And voila! Now everybody can see everybody else's work and all but the privacy seekers are happy. Yeah, those concerned with privacy will make their own color codes, intentionally different and obscure.
You know what would be cool is using a kind of steganography to embed a color message in normal text. Then when you search using the "query key" you see the highlighted image on top of the plaintext one. Man this is awesome stuff.
I Still remember Thedraw, PCboard, Remote Access, Proboard and Frontdoor
These where the times a 2400 baud was still enough and good programs where zipped or arj'd to a 200k file
Guess we'll never see that good time anymore code used to be clean and small instead of whistles-bells and unmaintained
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
http://thuglife.org/ is probably the best site on the net for current art packs by various ascii groups..
The only ANSi GR00P I remember is CLaP!...
About 20 years ago, I had a little setup with a 600xl (tape drive, 300 baud modem, Compuserve, and a stack of Compute! books) and using self taught Atari Basic skills, I goofed around with a firewood calculator which had animated Atari ASCII...even had smoke coming out of the woodstove's chimney.
At random times, a log or two would fall off the stack. I'd dig it out, but the cassette loading process...arghhh!
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Cig:
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Hm, would it be mean to link to ASCGen, which does almost the same thing for free? (don't think it does color tho)
Back in the day (early ninties) there were to ASCII game creation systems.
The first, ZZT, was the first game ever created by Epic Megagames, and was created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney. It was FINALLY released as freeware in 1997. A compendium of its games is available at Z2.
The later Megazeux was created by Greg Janson (considered to be the greatest ZZT game creator ever, creating such legends as Code Red) in 1994, and allowed sampled music [MODs], sound effects [SAMs], and customizable colour and character palettes. A SourceForge project to port the system, which was released in 1997 under the GPL license, is available at megazeux.sourceforge.net. (It has been cancelled.)
Both game systems had huge communities during their primes, featuring several hundred "companies" producing games for the systems. A look into the more humourous side, including satirical looks at its more prominent members, is available here.
Hopefully SOMEONE will mod this up so that at least the legacy of ZZT and MZX can be remembered.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
Copied the sig. Had me in stitches. Superb!
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I created it June 8, 1998. Long since lost the program used to do it. I know I used da Gimp even then. It's also deliberatly subtle.