Comments on: What the

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:05:28 +0000

“while after about 5000 tags ie chokes and stops colouring them.”

This might not be related, but I was using a text gradient program called CoolType (fontsuite) on Windows 98 fine. Just started using it on XP, and the last portion in the `alternate colours’ mode text output is black… the colours just drop out, for some reason. It never happened while using it on 98. :/

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:10:23 +0000

With two character combinations, it might still have detail. So three or more character combos would probably be more a matter curiosity and flexibility, and may give you a basic outline while, for instance, keeping the names of all your friends in a generation. Combined with a ramp for detail, words might become rare (except on darker levels) but I think any hidden content inside the image would be amusing in some way.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:29:31 +0000

I’ve thought about that, and it’s certainly doable if I treat everything as a variable width conversion (X = 12, XX = 24 etc). Since it’s all set up for one character, I need to go back and work out how it would have to be changed.

I just added code so that the html output has a black background for inverted images, and it looks much better then the white background does.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:57:05 +0000

It’s oddly aesthetically compelling. I don’t think I’ll ever save my documents in the text format again. I’m going to decorate them a little thanks to your software (now that much more complete, although I’d like to see preserved words; just a suggestion, but I’m still interested in having preserved character combinations in double quotation marks in automatic ramp generation, that way one entry ie. ["ASCGEN"] with no other valid characters becomes the repetitive/looped text in colour output… multiple entries becomes variable width, could be curious to see if combinations like ramp ["A""AS""ASC""ASCG""ASCGE""ASCGEN"] work for variable width black and white outputs)! Again, just one of my wacky ideas, probably not what you have in mind.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:03:21 +0000

It’s so nice, thanks.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:47:04 +0000

love the colour output, although no variable width font support.

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room13/309835/kitten.gif

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:24:33 +0000

Probably just going to release this version.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:52:04 +0000

Any developements?

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:00:22 +0000

While using BK Replace ‘em on my results, I inserted tags to each of the charaters (ie. bold [b][/b]) and ran through the results where [/b][b] where and just removed them, so that where the colour/style remains the same between characters the unnecessary tags would be removed.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:39:50 +0000

It’s now saving to a html file. Problems are that firefox doesn’t display lucidia console correctly (it adds extra space between the lines), while after about 5000 tags ie chokes and stops colouring them. I think I’ll need to try reducing the color depth to 256 or something.

Also I’ll have to find a faster way of searching through a list of Color objects for a Color, it’s too slow at the moment.