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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."
Tint it green, have it flow downward, and you're Keanu Reeves...
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It's not pointless if it's cool, it's just useless.
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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.
Yo dawg, I heard you like the Ackermann function, so OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
A: I don't even see the code. All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.
B: I can too you idiot - take those stupid goggles off. You're embarassing me.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
Ah, but can they sense peril?
That should totally be the new tag-line for Slashdot.
Peter
...means you lose depth perception.
Nice gimmick, though.
...Moscow? Moderators, set your phasers to redundant.
so it's like a pair of beer goggles for nerds?
This would be really cool with some informative readouts along the edges. Battery power remaining, range to John Connor, progressive sequel crappiness quotient, that sort of thing.
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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.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
At the risk of being a karma whore:
"Russian artists from Moscow presented in London the totally useless but somehow cool device - goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie or like somebody else from "the cyberspace". See the video below:"
Thanks.
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They don't have an ASCII representation of a /. effect. So I made one for em:
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I think you mean, In Soviet Russia, goggles ascii you.
sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
this might of been it ? ascii-wm.net
Cool but rather useless.
BTW for me at least, the OpenGL driver delivers a far better image under Vista than DirectX. Don't know if this is DRM related or not but the quality is far better.
Unfortunately TFA said ASCII - the Matrix included a lot of Japanese Katakana/Hiragana script so you'd probably need JIS, Unicode or ISO something-or-other...
Also, do not try this at home unless you are The One - otherwise, after ten minutes you'd probably go green and flow downwards.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Almost an hour has passed and not one person has claimed to have a screenshot and posted an ASCII goatse.
The thing that impressed me was I believe I saw a standard Sobel operator filter that extracts lines based on the derivatives of a pixel and its neighbors. Now in computer vision oftentimes this is used to simplify complex scenes so that region/structural analysis can be done.
You know when you're developing computer vision applications for robots, it sure would help to be able to code an algorithm & take it outside to test it against different light sources and scenarios so you get an idea of what needs to be tweaked.
Plus if your robots have hardware restrictions, this system can enforce them to give you an idea of realtime lag.
I could see this being a very valuable tool in the realms of academia & robotics. I realize the original idea is for ACII art, as mentioned, but there are some real applications here.
My work here is dung.
I buy one if I could overlay Q3 style textures over everything. :)
Say selective overlays for different people
Postman becomes zombies and add the sound effects for extra points
It would make my morning commute to work a little more fun
Probably require more CPU horsepower than that little unit could provide
and I suspect the batties would weigh a ton.
Help! help!, the termites are eating my DRAM!!!
I found the video posted on YouTube, for folks (like me) who didn't get to the main site before it started smoking.
You might see a Matrix reference, but all I see a string of worn out quotes. A Beowulf cluster of worn out quotes, where in Soviet Russia quote wears out you. Where I for one welcome our new worn out quote overlords. And My Eyes!! The worn out quotes do nothing.
.. I know Script-Fu!
which is totally what she said
In soviet nethack
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..@d..
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you bite dog for 42 pts damage
you hear a door burst open!
you see an old meme shambling toward you
you activate peril sensitive sunglasses
the goggles do nothing!
(moar)
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"My name.... is FRODO!"
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