Here's Some Fun With ASCII… ACSII… ACS2?
by Nate Voss, (16 comments)
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.
Comments (16)
Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] said:
Exactly which part of Scarlett Johanssen is that? I certainly can’t tell. I thought it was a flower of some kind.
Posted on February 5, 2007
ben swift said:
me too. if I squint really hard I can almost make something out. How about posting your source photo?
Posted on February 5, 2007
Nate Voss said:
Okay okay. Eat your hearts out.
Posted on February 5, 2007
GcRaya said:
Ya um thats great.?
Posted on February 5, 2007
Damian Zannini said:
I couldn’t tell what it was without viewing the source image.. :|
Posted on February 5, 2007
Joe Moran said:
Scarlett = HOT!!!!
With a capital T!!!!
And A (for Ascii. Double hA!)
Ha!
VR/
Posted on February 5, 2007
Bennett said:
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.
Posted on February 5, 2007
Nate Voss said:
Thanks Bennett. If you have time, you should click on the link, because it really is a fun little site.
Posted on February 5, 2007
Bobby said:
Saying Scarlett Johanssen is hot is about as inappropriate as saying the Eiffel Tower is tall.
Posted on February 5, 2007
Simanek said:
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.
Posted on February 6, 2007
Jerry Underwood said:
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?
Posted on February 6, 2007
Bennett said:
I did click on the link. It is a fun site and worth visiting.
Posted on February 6, 2007
Nishu said:
Fun visiting site with a purpose. Cheers
Posted on February 6, 2007
HughFire said:
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.
Posted on February 6, 2007
The ManBear said:
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.
Posted on February 7, 2007
dfre said:
Thanks for the link to this site, it is really fun. http://www.zecard.com
Posted on August 18, 2007