Realtime ASCII Goggles

jabjoe writes "Russian artists from Moscow have created goggles with realtime image filtering. Among the Photoshop-like filters that can be applied is, interestingly, ASCII: you can view the world in real time as ASCII. Pointless but cool."

Comments

I wouldn't say useless.

[jellomizer]

I could see a lot of uses for it. Not nessarly the ASCII Filter but other filters can be nice. Say a brightness filter may make you better able to see in low light. Negitive Filter may help you find Jesus, in cloth. Other Filters could aid learning artest how to draw by removing the natural shading in real life, and break things down into simple shapes. Heck the Ascii filter could probably be good for trainging for sending images on Low Bandwidth networks and having people get the images and decode them easier.

Re:World Cup in ASCII

[shades66a]

this might of been it ? ascii-wm.net

HasciiCam

[danEger]

http://ascii.dyne.org/

Copy on YouTube, which is not yet Slashdotted

[Gulik]

I found the video posted on YouTube, for folks (like me) who didn't get to the main site before it started smoking.

Re:Pointless but cool?

[QuantumPion]

That's actually a common misquote. The real quote is: "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" This should definitely be one of the tags for this article, especially since the server is down.

Re:ASCII

[Anonymous Coward]

No, not that kind of brightness, it's brightness as in the number of dots a character has, or the proportion of the space it fills against the maximum possible space a character can take (in a fixed width font).

Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive

[Roy van Rijn]

Pffftt... I can't take this anymore, I've had it! Too many bad jokes for one day!

You can do this at home!

[Old Duck]

At least, something like this. Take your video camera (or web cam or whatever), connect it to your computer, and use mplayer to view it. I've only used mplayer in Linux, but this probably would work in other OSes as well. You can set up mplayer to play the output of a DV stream, for example, or anything tied into video for Linux. When you run mplayer, use the

mplayer -vo aa

option, which changes the video out to animated ascii. It does this live, so you will now be viewing the world in ascii! Granted, we're not talking googles, but it will give you an idea of what you will see. I suppose when the new Linux phone comes out, you could strap two in front of your face and strap the camera to your head and make these googles for yourself:-)