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Google Art Creator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the google-abuse dept.

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.

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  1. Now, my friends . . . by acceleriter · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  2. aalib by funkhauser · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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    1. Re:aalib by gleam · · Score: 4, Informative

      My favorite aalib hack is the aalib output plugin for mplayer. Any format mplayer can open, it can convert to ascii... it even plays in the console, so you can watch your 80x24 porn remotely.

      -gleam

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. Slashdotted by AaronStJ · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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    1. Re:Slashdotted by Mr.DorkESQ · · Score: 5, Informative

      Ermm, the guy who made the website did not create any of the pictures in your post.

      I made Bart and Lincoln

      And some dude named nathan made the Spam Can

      I also did my self portrait

      Here is a link to it
      http://shorterlink.com/?R9MMVD

      Or you can go to http://groups.google.com and search for the following
      string in the following order;

      aa ae ao ea ee eo oa oe oo dork

      The way I did these was, I made a photoshop color table, indexed an image with the table and then resized the image. I then layed the whole thing out in excel saved the file as a CSV opened the CSV with a text editor and removed the comma's.

      You can tell my images from the ones created with the app because I used "aa ae ao ea ee eo oa oe oo" as my search string.

      I prolly won't do any more since it has gotten too easy and the novelty has worn off.

      And BTW I got slammed by the dudes in alt.art.ascii for calling it ascii art.

      Tim (i'm trying to figure out why my first post got mod-ed down to redundent) Mr.Dork

      http://members.telocity.com/~flaherty/IBM
      A silly flash animation

  5. I'm feeling sadistic by Rufus211 · · Score: 2, Informative

    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

  6. ASCII ART Creator by battlemagica.com · · Score: 2, Informative
    On my Online RPG website, I have an app availible for free download that allows the players to create ASCII art with their mouse. I wrote it because I noticed a growing trend to create ASCII art and out it in their player profile for others to see. I figured that doing it in a text editor was too time consuming especially with the color codes. Anyway, you might want to check it out. It's a Windoze app but it works fine under Wine 2.0 ;)

    • http://www.battlemagica.com
  7. I'd hardly call this art... by BigJimSlade · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

  8. Re:ASCII art? ANSI was much better... by Abstrakt · · Score: 2, Informative

    TheDraw will always remain the best ANSi editor of all time.

  9. Re:ASCII art? ANSI was much better... by mESSDan · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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  10. Real ascii art by lamery · · Score: 2, Informative
    Forget stick drawings of cartoon characters, for many years there have been groups formed around oldschool amiga ascii and newschool ascii which uses high characters. Sadly the scene has fallen off, but there are still active groups, most notably "Mimic", producing art. There's something far more entertaining looking at a 1000 line color ascii with perfect curves which took hours to create than there is viewing a few hundred automatically generated characters which if you squint looks like something you could just see in jpg anyways. Do yourself a favor and check some out...

    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.