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glassgiant.com — All you have to do is upload a photo. That will take about 3 seconds, and the image that you chose to upload will be turned into text, using keyboard characters. Its very hard to describe, so go try it out yourself. Just don't spam Digg with too many of them in the comment section.

Who dugg this? Made popular Feb 25, 2007

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  • appletalk, on 10/12/2007, -18/+174btw,

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  • evilpig, on 10/12/2007, -7/+157Would of been nice if you said ASCII art.
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  • hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+92{o,o}
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    O RLY?
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  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+87I got it working ... look

    8=====D
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58{-,-}
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    YA RLY?
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  • Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -4/+55And thus began the ASCII'd Goatse pics...
  • LexisNexis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47{~,~}
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  • ab2650, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35Do you remember the day when ASCII "art" was really something that involved more than a script? I guess I need to go re-live my BBS days somewhere away from the interwebs. *sigh*
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  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32This one sucks. It doesn't even do it in color.

    Better ASCII Art Generators
    http://www.text-image.com (Does color)
    http://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic/ (Does color & squares instead of numbers. Uses flash)

    There have been many ASCII Art digg stories. We don't need anymore unless they're better:
    http://digg.com/design/Awesome_ASCII_Art_Generator
    http://digg.com/tech_news/Awesome_Image_Converter_
    http://digg.com/programming/PHP_ASCII_Art_Generator,_with_COLOR!
    http://digg.com/programming/Picture-to-ASCII
    http://digg.com/design/3D_Stereogram_Ascii_Image_Generator
    http://digg.com/tech_news/ASCII_Generator_-_Turn_Your_Text_Into_ASCII_Graphics
    http://digg.com/design/Convert_JPG_images_to_ASCII_images
    http://digg.com/tech_news/Convert_any_image_into_ASCII_art
    http://digg.com/software/ASCII_Generator_4
    http://digg.com/programming/Open_Source_PHP_based_ASCII_art_generator_Turn_images_into_ASCII_Art
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35I wouldn't be too afraid of people using this on digg. Remember the story about how you can use unicode blocks to make a single letter out of multiple spaces? That didn't catch on.

    And I simply blocked everyone that did that damned ATHF "art" a while back.
  • KWhat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Well it didnt do a very good job now did it?
  • dnthomps, on 10/12/2007, -7/+33B(oYo)BIES
  • danswayuk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20If someone gets it to work on digg, who will like it?...We will hate it on digg
  • Managore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20But ab, the scripts are horrible. Ascii art done by hand can turn out fantastic, and it'll probably stay that way for a while.
  • JelloShotz, on 10/12/2007, -22/+39This one? =)

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  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+318=====D (_o_)
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  • bakkouz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17This will not work on Digg because this ASCII Art is font specific, the change in Font style/size on Digg will result in changes in the image, making it all messy and unrecognizable.

  • PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20If you're joking, than you've never viewed /. comments with no threshold.
  • MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Would HAVE been nice if you wrote "Would HAVE".

    And that http://www.text-image.com one sucks, ASCII art doesn't consist of zeros and ones only.

    This one who was mentioned further down does a far better job, because it uses basic characters, none of that ANSI ***** either:
    http://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic/
  • Aessa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14GIMP...File->Save As->ASCII art.
  • TheCheeks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15worked well i see.
  • SimonDonkers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I really like people using this on Digg. The animation of the image scrolling out when I digg them down looks neat.
  • MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12No, Digg isn't ASCII art friendly.
  • kuribo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12It may not work, but unfortunately that revelation will not prevent some people from posting it anyway.
  • alpinweiss88, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Would of ? You of got to be kidding me.
  • stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15I won't digg you down. I'm just going to block you.
  • sssok, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Ugh well my pic of petra nemcova didnt turn out. digg me down
  • PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -13/+21"And I simply blocked everyone that did that damned ATHF "art" a while back."
    Did you notice those trolls were actually dugg UP! Glad to know I'm not the only one who values what little dignity digg comments have.
  • totallymike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I remember when ascii art was made by hand and involved someone being creative in drawing their subject. This is akin to -- yet on a lesser scale -- creating a CGI movie instead of REAL animation or buying a high level mmo character.

    I miss the days when work and creativity were merited and rewarded.
  • MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This one came out decent. It's huge, but unlike the others I can see what it is.

  • Dr.Gonzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm glad it didn't.
  • markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That's cause there actually is a world outside of Digg.
  • zmigliozzi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8welcome to 1990.
  • bakagaigin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You need a monospace font for it to work.
  • Finster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6i cant make out what any of these pictures are!!!!
  • totallymike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I love it when someone finds something inane and posts it on digg like they're posting news of the revelation. I love it a lot more when it's BURIED INTO THE GROUND.
  • jm1234567890, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5But color won't work in alot of places.
  • jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3uh, this wouldnt be new

    heck did you miss all the mooninite ascii art pics that were posted?
  • shaitanx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I thought those came out horrible
  • appletalk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6> Would HAVE been nice if you wrote "Would HAVE".
    I'm not a native english speaker, but isn't that structure incorrect?
    I thought it should be 'Would _have been_ nice if you _had written_ "Would have"'
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This seems to be an open invite to spam Digg...and this is promoted using Digg's unique formula ??!!!.Digg's online custodians are doing it well...
  • mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4*waits for goatse*
  • panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41982 is more like it. I remember you could take the same ASCII-art image of a nude woman and change her from petite to voluptuous by hitting a button on the front panel of the printer to enter wide-print mode.
  • ellisgl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I had a PHP script that would do this - but a hell of lot better.

    The Monroe picture I could hardly tell it was her..
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