Here’s Some Fun With ASCII‚Ķ ACSII‚Ķ ACS2?
After a riviting few days of Mooninite conversation, I thought it was high time to add a little levity (though I must thank our readers for catapulting that discussion into our Top Ten posts, cementing my fake F’bomb onto our homepage for the foreseeable future).
Head on over to Typorganism.com and click on the link for the ASCII-O-Matic! This little devil will take any 60 x 50 pixel photo you upload and turn it into those crazy little type drawings, which you can screen-capture like me or generate HTML code to use however you’d like.. And it does a pretty good job, just check out Scarlett Johanssen above. I know I am. (source photo, geez fellas, now included after the jump.)
Cropped from the above photo.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Exactly which part of Scarlett Johanssen is that? I certainly can’t tell. I thought it was a flower of some kind.
February 5th, 2007 at 11:29 am
me too. if I squint really hard I can almost make something out. How about posting your source photo?
February 5th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Okay okay. Eat your hearts out.
February 5th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Ya um thats great.?
February 5th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I couldn’t tell what it was without viewing the source image..
February 5th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Scarlett = HOT!!!!
With a capital T!!!!
And A (for Ascii. Double hA!)
Ha!
VR/
February 5th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
I’m really glad that this is turning into a place to gawk at the opposite sex and say inappropriate remarks. This is really going to help the view of our profession. Keep it up guys.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Thanks Bennett. If you have time, you should click on the link, because it really is a fun little site.
February 5th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Saying Scarlett Johanssen is hot is about as inappropriate as saying the Eiffel Tower is tall.
February 6th, 2007 at 6:06 am
Nothing wrong with a little fun. Graphic Design is supposed to be a ‘fun’ profession right? Well, thanks for the pic, Nate. I gotta go to work now, so the Marketing Department can override my opinion and force me to design crap according to their specific instructions.
February 6th, 2007 at 7:07 am
I’ve always enjoyed ASCII art, but didn’t like the limitations of Typorganism.com.
Has anybody found a good stand-alone app for the Mac?
February 6th, 2007 at 8:21 am
I did click on the link. It is a fun site and worth visiting.
February 6th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Fun visiting site with a purpose. Cheers
February 6th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
The pattern created by the ascii is very much like a very rough halftone – in other words step back from your screen about 6-10 feet and you will see it. I think from a design perspective its neat to realize that often the whole is better than the sum of its parts. It i a neat way to look at the way random seeming shapes can create patterns.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Thanks for the link to this site, it is really fun. Though I would have to agree with most everyone else that I didn’t know that was Scarlett Johanson until I saw the original pic.
August 18th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Thanks for the link to this site, it is really fun.
http://www.zecard.com