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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

Here, try this one in a console (for those of you with webcams)

mplayer tv:// -vo aa -monitorpixelaspect 0.5

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MrCode

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Registered: 2010-02-06

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

That's pretty cool!

Replace aa with caca if you want color, though (and assuming you have libcaca installed), and the -monitorpixelaspect option becomes optional.

Last edited by MrCode (2012-07-20 22:51:23)

kittykatt

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Registered: 2009-11-04

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

-- mod edit: read the rules and only post thumbnails https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61754  [jwr] --

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Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

I thought this was nice. Generated in a terminal with tiv btw.

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harald91

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Registered: 2013-02-11

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

I thought this was nice. Generated in a terminal with tiv btw.

That's pretty awesome! I will use it as desktop-background!

edit: can you post your tiv-code for this? How did you generate this picture, with a non-ASCII-background?

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Xyne

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

edit: can you post your tiv-code for this? How did you generate this picture, with a non-ASCII-background?

By "tiv-code", do you mean the command-line parameters? They should be

tiv -r 0.6 -a -j -c --reset <path to image>

If you meant the source code, you can find it on the project page that I linked above.

I have a transparent terminal so what you see in the background is the desktop background. I ended up uploading some more images after that post.  You can find them here.

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skanky

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Registered: 2009-10-23

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

Just a note, I know jp2a is listed as a n optional dependency of tiv for ascii output, but it might be worth catching its absence early on and printing an error message if it -j is specified on the cmd line. Otherwise you get a load of errors (one per line I think). I only got this because I had forgotten to add jp2a to a new machine, so it wasn't an issue for me. Just thought it worth a mention.

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Xyne

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

@skanky
done

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skanky

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

@skanky
done

Might reduce your support requests slightly.

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Xyne

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

@skanky
done

Might reduce your support requests slightly.

Meh, I think i can manage the 3 people who use it about once a year.

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skanky

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Registered: 2009-10-23

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

@skanky
done

Might reduce your support requests slightly.

Meh, I think i can manage the 3 people who use it about once a year.

Wait 'til LifeHacker get hold of it...

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harald91

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Registered: 2013-02-11

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

tiv -r 0.6 -a -j -c --reset <path to image>

Thank you, that's exactly what I meant. Apology for my confusing english, it isn't my native language. It would be nice if you can upload your orginal "cat-picture" and your background-picture for me. I want to generate an image with the right resolution for me.

Xyne

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Re: Post your nice ASCII pics!

@harald91
You can find the source images here.

Steps to reproduce:
1) set background with e.g. feh
2) use "tiv -ajc --reset <cat image>" in a transparent terminal
3) capture the screen (e.g. with gimp)

To tweak the image, open it as a layer in gimp, then capture the screen with only the background showing. Import the captured background image as a background layer in gimp. Make sure transparency is enabled and then you can erase ascii artefacts from the top layer.

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