Comments on: Beta 6.0 released – Variable Width Conversion

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:19:01 +0000

What I was using a day before b6.0; forging the results using a predefined ramp and replacing the results with 2×3 width chars and one 6 width char.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a307/Dwayne2005/ASCII-Example1pre-b6.gif

The results with b6.0:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a307/Dwayne2005/ASCII-Example1b6.gif

…aside from the improved results, at least now I can see the gen in real time and it doesn’t involve figuring out a ramp / replace script.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:24:58 +0000

Yup, definitely Tahoma. Sorry about my confusion.

I compared the Lucida Console output to Times New Roman, with optimal valid chars, and they’re comparable but I noticed one distraction about Times New.. was the fact that the darkest colours (the f’s, t’s, and l’s) were so close together that they created a sort of lined effect in some images. It’s nevertheless unavoidable and yet very interesting and unique, and I can use Time New Roman output at a certain message board which won’t allow tags.

(It’s much better than the search/replace routine I was using of 6 width characters and paired 3 width characters… the output in TNR 12 is very much already far surpassive of the best that I could do through forging results using a preset ramp and running it through BK Replace ‘em. If I can this morning, I’ll try and get up a couple of examples of what I was doing before this release and how it looks on your software!)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:50:11 +0000

It looks like Tahoma to me. I’ll release a new version in a few days with an improved output. It’s already better, and I’ve a few more ideas that I need to try.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:56:52 +0000

I don’t think that’s Tahoma, but I’ve been trying to look for it. I haven’t added any fonts since last installation of Windows so it’s accompanied Win ’98, whatever font it is?

I think this is wonderful! I notice with variable width, the capital characters are more problematic generally than it would be on mono, since all the caps are very large and all the small caps are very small; although there appear to be exceptions, as in the above font. The best valid chars I’ve got for Times New Roman 12 are ,.;acemnrsuvwxzflt

It has made the software 10 times more impressive, although I’ve been a bit too busy to give it a thorough go yet. I will love to devote quite some time to it.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:51:10 +0000

A couple of quick gens.

I think this was done in Tahoma.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a307/Dwayne2005/ASCII-claire-forlani.gif

This is done in Lucida Handwriting.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a307/Dwayne2005/ASCII-olivia-hussey.gif

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:54:12 +0000

Wow! Tried out Times New Roman and Verdana so far. I notice that the jagged edge isn’t a problem at all until I get down to size 6 Times New Roman, and it’s more of a problem when the valid characters are removed. Verdana seems to work fine at smaller font sizes.

This is great! Thanks!