Posters and ASCII art

Sunday, October 12, 2008 / Comments (4) / by Varun

Okay 2 new goodies today,a Website and a Website/Software.

1.ASCII-o-Matic:

My fixation with ASCII art began the day I downloaded my first file from the torrent scene.I don't even remember the group's name,but their release nfo was a beautiful ASCII art by a japanese fellow.Recently I found the website ASCII-o-Matic that will create ASCII art from images.Ideally made for portraits,the output is fabulous.Just upload a 60x50(only this dimension is supported)mugshot and hit generate.
Here's a sample result (Bear in mind that HTML code has also been generated,so instead of the high load time for an image,just preformatted ASCII is shown)

Original Image: Guus Hiddink


ASCII Result:

[click to enlarge]
Hitting ctrl+u on above window will give you your HTML code for the ASCII.

2.Rasterbator


Everyone loves posters.And thanks to this software,I have my own HomeMade Manchester United Posters hanging in my cupboard.
Rasterbator is a software that allows you to create life-size posters from small images,even upto 20feet in dimension.You can specify the dimensions of the poster you want either in terms of (mm by mm) or in terms of (number of sheets wide/high of type of sheet),for example,"5 A4 sheets wide". The output is in the form of a .pdf file,which you can print at home or take it to a store and print it out.
Beware though,this software could use a lot of CPU.Older models could struggle. You can also use this freeware online before downloading the software.There is also a detailed walkthrough about how to go about creating your poster.
Here is a sample output
This is what I gave as input.

and the output pdf is here
Tell me if you like these.Comments appreciated.

4 comments:

Tanmay @ October 14, 2008 at 4:22 PM

this one's really nice..this ascii thing..

Pilo @ October 15, 2008 at 7:28 AM

Your work seems to be great. I wish you had your personal channel at nosle.com for your ascii art and others too.
http://www.nosle.com pilo

Mat Cendana @ October 16, 2008 at 6:54 PM

(Off-topic)
Hi,
I saw your comments at BlogCatalog - about your lament concerning PageRank:

varundamark
Despite a healthy number of incoming links from high PR sites,I'm still stuck on PR 0
varunsvagaries.blogspot.com
techprescription.blogspot.com
varun needs you


Well, I had only started my blog a month ago. So there was NO PR. Then after two weeks I went to check again.

There was a notice about "new code" which I copied and changed at my blog Cendana Blues: Addicted to Politics It went to PR3! But it's justified, because I was getting some clicks (of 200-500) at that time.

Try changing the code and see.

Anonymous @ October 21, 2008 at 12:12 PM

I think that's such nice unique stuff.. thanks for share..

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