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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.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
... is how long until the goatse ascii image tunrs up?
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
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!
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
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.
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... :-)
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?
Learn to Play Go
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.
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.
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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.
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
"Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out."
Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!
I've come for the woman, and your head.
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!
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
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.
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.
I hate call waitin`~+~~~
NO CARRIER
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!
TheDraw will always remain the best ANSi editor of all time.
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
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 :)
my other sig is a 500 page novel
art using graphs on statistics of sites which get /.ed?
I am unique, just like you, and you, and you...
not sadistic...
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
The only ANSi GR00P I remember is CLaP!...