Re: Which converter was used?

Tue, 2 Mar 2004 04:20:01 +0200, Ilmari Karonen <use...@vyznev.invalid> kirjoitti:
> Maija Haavisto <mai...@dontspambut.writeme.com> kirjoitti 01.03.2004:
> > For people who are more familiar with ASCII converters, which one was
> > this picture made with? http://maija.irtie.org/ascii.jpg
> 
> It does _not_ look like aalib, gifscii, pbmtoascii or Rob Harley's
> original algorithm -- the character set does not match any of those.
> 
> My best attempt at reconstructing the character gradient in that image
> is " ,.;:iraX2S7Z08BW@M" (sans double quotes).  The precise order of
> the characters there could be wrong (although I've tried to base it on
> gradients in the image rather than visual appearance) but I'm fairly
> sure those are the only characters used.
> 
> I think the program in question might be ASCII Generator, found at
> <http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~wardog/>.  The sample picture and
> gradient bars found on that page certainly look similar.  However,
> running strings(1) on the executable reveals a somewhat different
> character table, " .,:;rsiS52X39hG&AHBM#@".
> 
> Some of the differences could be due to mistakes in my reconstruction,
> but the absence of some characters found in the image from the table
> is a problem.  It could, however, be that the image has been created
> by some earlier version of the program.  In any case, ASCII Generator
> was the closest match I could find among the converters listed in the
> Open Directory Project's ASCII Art Software category, although I may
> have missed some.

Thanks for your help. I think it must be another program then, surely
the directory doesn't contain all of them. There are dozens of ASCII
converters around, many people don't even realize they exists so they
code their own. The similarities with ASCII Generator might be totally
random, there aren't _that_ many possible ways of converting pictures
anyway. Just have to keep searching.

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