On Sun, February 01 at 2:18 PM EST Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:24:12PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >> Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:21:34AM -0600, Bill Kalebaugh wrote: >> >> [snip lots of stuff about text consoles and jpegs] >> > So this got me thinking. Is there anything to display jpegs on a >> > terminal as ASCII art? I think aalib can do this? The package >> > `hasciicam` does something similar but I don't know if it can >> > just simply display a jpeg to the console as ASCII art. >> > Any ideas? >> >> Yes, apt-cache show aview: >> Description: A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player >> aview is a high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player. It >is> especially useful with a text-based browser such as lynx, links or >w3m.> . >> It supports the pnm, pgm, pbm and ppm image formats, as well as >> the FLI and FLC video formats. It also supports output via stdio, >> (n)curses and slang and even has support for gpm. >It doesn't support JPEG. What package would have something like >jpg2p[ngbp]m? > imagemagick would do it with "convert", a part of the imagemagick package. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cp /home/slamson/junk/071699s.jpg . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ display 071699s.jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ convert 071699s.jpg 071699s.pnm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ display 071699s.pnm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ file 071699s.pnm 071699s.pnm: Netpbm PPM "rawbits" image data [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ file 071699s.* 071699s.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.02 071699s.pnm: Netpbm PPM "rawbits" image data can't wait to see Wolf Blitzer as ascii art! HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
