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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."
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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The goggles, they do nothing!
Ah, but can they sense peril?
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That should totally be the new tag-line for Slashdot.
Peter
...means you lose depth perception.
Nice gimmick, though.
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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They don't have an ASCII representation of a /. effect. So I made one for em:
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Ah, but it's not even useless.
a) enhance the surreality of certain drugs (didn't know surreality was a word, but spellchecker isn't complaining. Interestingly, my spellchecker says spellchecker is spelled wrong.
b) make sex with unattractive people more fun. Actually, this would make sex with attractive people more fun too. As long as they don't complain about the massive stupid looking goggles you have on. Or the massive thing that powers them and keeps hitting your partner in the ribs.
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I think you mean, In Soviet Russia, goggles ascii you.
sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
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.
Almost an hour has passed and not one person has claimed to have a screenshot and posted an ASCII goatse.
Yeah, I was going to insert the clause, 'add unicode and some funky characters,' but I was distracted by the woman in the red dress.
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I have the same problem. While watching it, I kept expecting to have scenes like this:
Neo: I totally had this dream where I woke up in a bathtub full of snot, and my head had this gnarly plug hooked into it. Then I went down this awesome waterslide. It was like waterloo, only totally metal.
Neo: [does air guitar]
Morpheus: That was no dream. The world as you understand it exists only as a massive simulation, designed and built by the machines, to deceive mankind while harnessing their body heat for energy. You were plugged into the matrix like the others, but we rescued you.
Neo: [Looks painfully confused]
Morpheus: [sighs] Up until now, you were a lot like that dude in that song "One" by Metallica.
Neo: Excellent!
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.
Judging by his performance neither can Keanu Reeves.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I found the video posted on YouTube, for folks (like me) who didn't get to the main site before it started smoking.
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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