Excellent stuff! I wrote a program to convert images to ascii art many years ago and I also used to have a collection of ascii art that I created manually on the fly in text editors, some of which is still out there on the net, but I never tried this method, so I found this video fascinating, thank you.
@@Bibibosh Thank you for the feedback. Whilst I've run a reasonably sized channel on another account in the past, I no longer do so and I'm simply not interested in creating another channel at this stage...
I had my photo printed in this way in a tent in a street market in 1984. I was a preschooler, and it was my first time seeing my face on a TV screen. Still have the print.
A long time ago when I was in Scouts (late 1970s), my scout master had an old telex machine with a punched tape reader. He had boxes of punched tapes that produced character art when you ran them through the reader. As you saw in the cat picture, quite often a character space would be over typed with multiple different characters to give different levels of grey.
Awesome video! Annotation for English learners like myself: 2:03 he says "it's FLYWIRE" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flywire 4:08 I recommend stitching/gluing it to the table with something, so it's doesn't move.
Excellent stuff! I wrote a program to convert images to ascii art many years ago and I also used to have a collection of ascii art that I created manually on the fly in text editors, some of which is still out there on the net, but I never tried this method, so I found this video fascinating, thank you.
Simon B u have potential and if you were to display your content on UA-cam you may end up with $50 every week..... yea true....
@@Bibibosh Thank you for the feedback. Whilst I've run a reasonably sized channel on another account in the past, I no longer do so and I'm simply not interested in creating another channel at this stage...
I have an app on my phone that takes ascii pictures. Was it you that made that?
I had my photo printed in this way in a tent in a street market in 1984. I was a preschooler, and it was my first time seeing my face on a TV screen. Still have the print.
wait so ASCII art is actually older than I thought lol
A long time ago when I was in Scouts (late 1970s), my scout master had an old telex machine with a punched tape reader. He had boxes of punched tapes that produced character art when you ran them through the reader. As you saw in the cat picture, quite often a character space would be over typed with multiple different characters to give different levels of grey.
man thats neat. encoding in the cursor movement commands and such yeah.
There are now websites that can convert your picture files into ASCII art. Pretty neat for them loading onto a vintage computer!
This show brings me daily joy I'm so glad you put it on youtube for people to find today
This is like watching cavemen discover fire
Yep.
You can do this in real time on video using mplayer -vo aa (but back when this was filmed, that was a easy option.)
Bushrangers are sooo typecast
Thank you, we're here all night, be sure to tip your waitress.
Yee olde ascii art
Precisely.
Awesome video!
Annotation for English learners like myself:
2:03 he says "it's FLYWIRE" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flywire
4:08 I recommend stitching/gluing it to the table with something, so it's doesn't move.
In the U.S., flywire is called "(window) screening". Once it's in a frame to go in a window, it's a "(window) screen".
From what I remember, this is also the concept behind cross stitching
Dots give you pale grey and t gives you earl grey 🙃
LOL
This is fun stuff and it's still fun today. I wrote some code a few years ago that converts digital images (jpg, gif, png) into HTML table cells.
Now I'm dying for an ascii portrait of Rob 😍❤💓
Make this happen!
i.imgur.com/sIBDeSw.png - you might need to set it to a smaller size or step away from the screen
@@CWorm Awesome!
Thanks man 😊
@@CWorm incredible!
These guys KILL the turtleneck game, it's insane.
I'm going to code something to do this now idk lol but seems fun
"Such is type."
Very clever, cheers from John.
I'm ashamed to say it took me a second visit to this video to get this rather clever pun, so well done... ;)
Ascii artists: _tips fedora_
Get you some ‘fly wire ‘!
That would have taken a long time to do, The famous Bushranger ended up not to far from here in Glenrowan. That is just 10 Km or so from me.
That was ned Kelly. Ben Hall (this one) was a NSW bloke - Rob
Bushranger art
That's dope
Quite interesting.
He didn't mention how those new fangled 'electronic computers' can do the same sorts of things automatically.
Ben Hall? I thought it was Clint Eastwood.
Analog ASCII art or pixel art.
Clever