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.

Comments

In nead of gainful employment.

[Forge]

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.

Re:In nead of gainful employment.

[*xpenguin*]

Whoever poasted the parent coment is in serius need of a spall cheqar.

Re:In nead of gainful employment.

[Lars T.]

Whoever created this site is in serious need of a Google Cache ;-)

what i want to know.....

[jeffy124]

... is how long until the goatse ascii image tunrs up?

Now, my friends . . .

[acceleriter]

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!

The google geeks will love it... :-)

[Heraklit]

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... :-)

aalib

[funkhauser]

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?

Re:aalib

[gleam]

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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[account_deleted]

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Ha. Kids have it so easy today.

[acceleriter]

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.

Heh.

[Mornelithe]

"Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out."

Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!

Slashdotted

[AaronStJ]

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

Re:Slashdotted

[Mr.DorkESQ]

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

I'd hardly call this art...

[BigJimSlade]

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!