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

    ...means you lose depth perception.

    Nice gimmick, though.