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Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art
boogi78 writes "Remember ASCII art? This is the Web 2.0 CSS version of ASCII art featuring Homer Simpson. Here is a CSS G.W. Bush. There's also an program that automatically converts jpegs into 'CSS images,' but it's a Windows executable. I found no sources for it, but I got it to work with WINE."
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Original pouet thread which this spawned:
http://pouet.net/topic.php?which=5204&page=1
Sameish idea: DeImg from The Daily Grind Network.
That's the most beautiful thing these eyes have ever seen....well except for Marge, when she wears that blue thing with the things.
So now using CSS and JavaScript is a criterion for "Web 2.0"? When will it end?
"And there be unix which have made themselves unix for the kingdom of heaven's sake." - Matt. 19:12
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DOH!!!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Clearly this is the result of having FAR too much free time.
Government's idea of a balanced budget: take money from the right pocket to balance...oh who am I kidding?
looks like the site FTA is down.
Looks just like the block art from Prodigy from back in 1990's. All this tech and we're back to the same place as 1995.
link in summary to some blog doesn't work already.. here's the original link:
http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/
And only after 25 comments. :O(
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Yeah, those are ASCII characters.
It's a yellow blur that looks like something a five year old would make upon being first introduced to PaintShop.
But it's Web2.0, so it must be kewl.
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
but not forgotten.
If you think the blocky ASCII Dubya is bad, highlight his text. Holy crap.
goatse
and I would have felt it was a good likeness.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Those line printers could be coaxed to kick out some interesting pictures. I found some on a cassette tape once while clearing out a cupboard, suitable for a Datapoint machine. I seem to remember I taught myself enough Datapoint assembler to be able to print them out.
I must have been desperate back then...
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
I tried it on a 512x512 black and white jpeg, and it stops before it completes the image. What gives?
As the Homer link doesn't seem to work for me, try: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/
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I SAID, !
The big advantage of this kind of graphic is that it scales up to a nice sharp anti-aliased image as the user increases the text size. Well, at least Homer did when I tried it.
But of course, properly implemented SVG would do that just as well. It just lacks the super-geekiness of using something in an unintended way to get a useful result. And, of course, this way might have better support in some browsers than SVG.
It needs Verdana from MS TrueType core fonts, so it doesn't work across multiple platforms. The link is slashdotted anyway. Here's a version that's still available: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/
Here's how i see it: http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9183/homeraz4.png
It's a comfort to know that when the Internet collapses, old-fashioned bulletin board systems will be ready.
Ahhh, posts about the Simpsons AND MacGyver on the front page at the same time. I can die now; order has been restored.
Interesting. In Firefox crtl+mouse wheel or ctrl++ to zoom text, as well as css image. Page zoom is different in IE7 (it has always zoomed an entire page, text and images).
See, you're using Web 1.0, so it's rendering Homer more like he was drawn in the early Simpsons cartoons.
I've been doing this in Web 1.0 for years.
http://www.dogmatix.com/dk.html
I fear that our advertising overlords will use this to display advertising that I'd otherwise block. The next step in fighting advertising on the web? Block all ASCII charaters from being displayed!!! That'll fix those advertisers.
Along similar lines (but not as cool), D is for dolphin.
Woo hoo!!
ASCII art is still so great, especially on forums and such where it's too much hassle [or you aren't allowed] to post images.
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.
It's funny, how the guy trolling at the windows users didn't get modded down.
If SVN was working in common browsers, that news would be boring.
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Because the basic fact is no matter what you do to a turd - polish it, paint it, give it bling - it's still a turd, and there is nothing you can do about that underlying fact.
C'mon people Web 2.0 is just Web 1.0, its still just scripts, images and text.
How is it possible for something that is WEB 2.0 be only available under Windows or WINE? Seems like a contradiction in terms. I thought Web 2.0 was a new thing that was even more platform independent than ever before.
It's time once again for me to bask in my fleeting moment of USENET glory, when for a few brief shining months 18 years ago, it seemed like half the world was using my Simpsons ASCII art for their signature file.
that is pretty sweet :-) for any ol' ascii art enthusiasts, come check out #ascii on undernet.
*plays the Apogee theme song music*
Many of these vendors would have just written Windows clients/apps. I too prefer native apps, but untill the consumer market is more heterogenous, the likely alternative to web apps is native apps for a platform I don't like.
Of course, in a heterogeneous environment, the developers won't touch native clients with a teen foot pole...
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Get out of there, its gonna blow!
No, I mean it, that table is xbox huge!
If you go to the edit menu in your browser and choose "select all" on the George Bush picture, he ends up looking like a Quintesson from the Transformers...which probably explains the last 7 years.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
That's it. I'm going to have to report this guy to the http://www.blackpearlcomputing.com/bpc/Bandwidth_stuff/default.htmlBandwidth Conservation Society.
Now get off my lawn!
You can't even see Bush's horns.
Fix your CSS!
My head hurts whenever I read "Web 2.0".
Do the world a favor: smack anyone who uses the phrase "web two point oh" in a conversation. Smack them. Smack them hard.
"The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
that javascript is not very human-parsable ... i have absolutely NO idea of what it's doing, and frankly, that scares me.
Does it render correctly on IE?
:P
Sorry, had to ask...
Jenna Jameson.avi through aalib. That's real acii art.
When you get to Web 3.141, you come full circle, and it's web 1.0 again.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
I've been sending goatse pics to unsuspecting web-savvy friends all morning. I haven't pulled off an unsuspecting-goatse in _years_!
.html files and pop 'em open in the browser.
I attach them as HTML source inside text/plain MIME sections
Nerdy friends then get annoyed at my email-incompetence, save them as
Whooo hoooo
Now... who else can I goatse?
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
They build Homer Simpson sketching engines, but we still don't have decent business-oriented AJAX form widgets such as editable grid sheets and outline (tree) browser widgets. Building web forms is still stuck in 1982.
Table-ized A.I.
How do you spell Homer Simpson?
oooo(OOO\L(OOOOO\L(O||\\||\\\\((8ooo((8oooo))boOoooooo)boOooooooooo///___CCO(-
I like my coffee the way I like my women - roasted and ground up into little tiny pieces.
This is seriously one of my favorite CmdrTaco exploits. I giggle every time I read it. I don't care too much to hear about him eating shit or wanting to be repeatedly raped by large black men, but I love this one.
If we're discussing ASCII art, then how come the Amazing Instant Asciicam didn't get mentioned?