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Color Ascii Art Library

Posted by michael on from the news-you-can-use dept.

thedj_sd writes "As the true slashdot reader you just love ascii art of course. You have toyed around with aalib or maybe you use it all the time to watch your pr0n :) Well VLC media player's senior developer sam was bored some time ago and created libcaca. The Colour AsCii Art library of which he himself says: 'I am perfectly aware that libcaca is the waste of time it looks to be. No need to tell me about that.' But you just can't help looking at that beautiful picture of Stitch, and Doom in coloured ascii is da bomb. It works on dos/windows, Linux and Mac OS X and there is a VLC plugin and SDL backend available."

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  1. ANSI Art Library by lordscarlet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It'll probably get slashdotted quickly, but for those who remember ANSI Art groups like iCE and ACiD I am in the process of creating a library of their packs viewable online. http://ansi.idledreams.net for the actual site and http://idledreams.net/ansi/ for news about it.

  2. Re:Wrong assumptions by n4vu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Wrong assumptions" may be right. I believe it was teletype operators who came up with character art long before computers were on the scene.

  3. Re:libCACA? by jcuervo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ObSnopesLink:

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    Status: False.

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    Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
  4. Re:I've been waiting for this for ages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And if the conversion to ASCII is done at the server, I can watch streaming movies on my 56k modem!

  5. ATI drives can do that by Tobias+Luetke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed if you have the latest drivers for the DirectX series of ATI cards installed ( Catalyst 3.8+ ) you will find a smartshader menu in the display properties. Smartshaders are applyed in the last pass on the picture before its send to the screen. There are filters for making it look like a classic painting and things like that. In the settings for OpenGL smartshader there is a option to render the picture as ASCII ( only white /black or green/black though ). However it way funny to play Call of duty in ascii .

  6. Been there, done that, two or three years ago. by WolfWings · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Should I bother releasing my patch to AALib? Replaces the monochrome buffer with a 32bpp RGB- buffer, uses a much more tuned colour-selection system than libCACA appears to.

    A screenshot of the BattleToads title screen, linked out of Archive.org as I don't have a current website for the TextNES emulator worth pointing too at the moment, unfortunately.

    But yeah... been there, did that, didn't think anyone would be interested so I never released the patch.

  7. Re:HOW IS THIS ASCII ART? Check Simpsons ASCII arc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting


    Actually you can do a lot more than that, like with this program I wrote which uses shape based correlation to match the font to the image data.