ASCGEN dotNET Tutorial 1 – Creating an ASCII image
(Document v3.0, using Ascgen dotNET 0.9.7(pre), updated 20080402)
In the first in a series of tutorials on how to use the ASCGEN dotNET, I show you how to convert an image to a high quality fixed width text image with just a few simple steps and very little effort.
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Update
You know how on the old site the example output for the program were all resized and processed in another program? Well, I’ll never have to do that again. Here’s some more samples, once again actual untouched output but this time the output image has first been resized to 75% by the program. Click:
I need to work out a nice interface to do it (possibly on a new dialog?), but it didn’t take much code and worked far better then I hoped.
Samples
Here are a few random pictures grabbed out of my test pictures folder and converted:
Click for the unaltered output.