graphics --> ascii

Hi All!

piplz, pliz help me. i have to convert graphics to displaying in pure
ascii,
(all graphics presented in vector form), but i don't know how to do it.

i writes program and it will display graphical results in textmode, using
default screen font, in ascii. :-|

raster graphics i can convert - but *very* slowly - to ascii by
distributing
image to grid 8x16 (8x8, 8x14) and searching char image what looks like
this
part of image (but it takes lot of time, or works very draft). because i
have
vector graphics (stored in internal form, all picture contains only
several
monochrome lines (x1,y1) -- (x2,y2), all have width 1 pixel, screen looks
like (0,0) -- (Xsize-1,Ysize-1) etc.), i think converting vector graphics
to
ascii will be faster and ergh... bigger quality (zorry my english is too
worse... :(

can you help me, All?  where i can ftp
descriptions/algorythms/sources/etc
what can help me? (it will be much better if you send this stuff to me,
because i'm fido user, no personal internet access).

i'm wainitg to answers.... thanx for reading this letter.

Best Regards! Dmitrik aka DiGiC0RE

I don't know about you, but I'm sure there's a program that takes a
picture and outputs an ASCII equivalent of the pic. The only limitation
is that it can only take BMPs and they have to be grayscaled. It's
called ASCII art and I use it a lot. Search for it on the web. I hope
this helps....


Johnny

I don't know about you, but I'm sure there's a program that takes a
picture and outputs an ASCII equivalent of the pic. The only limitation
is that it can only take BMPs and they have to be grayscaled. It's
called ASCII art and I use it a lot. Search for it on the web. I hope
this helps....


Johnny

Dmitrik Kolesnikov wrote:
> i have to convert graphics to displaying in pure ascii,
> (all graphics presented in vector form), but i don't know how to do it.
> 
> i writes program and it will display graphical results in textmode, using
> default screen font, in ascii. :-|
> 
> raster graphics i can convert - but *very* slowly - to ascii by distributing
> image to grid 8x16 (8x8, 8x14) and searching char image what looks like this
> part of image (but it takes lot of time, or works very draft). because i have
> vector graphics (stored in internal form, all picture contains only several
> monochrome lines (x1,y1) -- (x2,y2), all have width 1 pixel, screen looks
> like (0,0) -- (Xsize-1,Ysize-1) etc.), i think converting vector graphics to
> ascii will be faster and ergh... bigger quality
> 

You may find something like this useful:


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|    |      /      /      .'      .'
|    |     |      /      /      .'
|    /     /     /     .'     .'          1/3
|   |     |     /     /     .'         .-'
|   |     /    /    .'    .'        .-'
|   /    |    /    /    .'       .-'       1/4
|  |     /   /   .'   .'      .-'      _.-'
|  |    |   /   /   .'     .-'     _.-'       1/5
|  /    /  /  .'  .'    .-'    _.-'      _.--'
| |    |  /  /  .'   .-'   _.-'     _.--'      1/6
| |    / / .' .'  .-'  _.-'    _.--'    __.--'     1/7
| |   | / / .' .-' _.-'   _.--'   __.--'    __..--'
              _.-'  _.--'   __.--'   __..--'    1/8
               _.--'  __.--'  __..--'   __..--''
                __.--' __..--'  __..--''
                __..--' __..--''
                __..--''
               -------------------------- 0


And something similar for rounded shapes...


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