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Realtime ASCII Goggles

Posted by kdawson on from the through-crt-colored-spectacles dept.

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."

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  1. Pointless but cool? by biocute · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not pointless if it's cool, it's just useless.

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  2. ASCII by exploder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the ASCII mode would have been cooler if they'd run the edge detect first. As it was, it seemed like the majority of the information rendered was in the brightness of the characters, not in the choice of character for each position.

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  3. One camera only... by UfoZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...means you lose depth perception.

    Nice gimmick, though.

  4. Re:I wouldn't say useless. by pragma_x · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd say that's the tip of the iceberg. Real-time video manipulation has all kinds of crazy implications for various impairments.

    Being able to simulate various types of color-blindness, or color-shift the real world to assist the color-blind are two possibilities. You could also use edge enhancement for people that can't focus too well, brightness enhancement for people who can't see in moderate light, gamma correction for night-blindness, and maybe some kind of stylized "cell shading" for people who have trouble discerning shapes and depth cues (shadows, etc).

    Now, add on some binocular optics (read: conventional glasses) and you can further push the envelope by compensating for astigmatism, lazy eye, and all the rest.

    Also, a lot of CCDs can see in to the near-infrared. So IR-enhanced viewing is also a distinct possibility.