How do people create ascii art?

[moebius]

i find it hard to believe that someone would actually sit down and type one character at a time to create something like what's below. How do they do it?
[ok, i had to delete it 'cos it looked terrible once i clicked the 'submit now' button]

[This message has been edited by moebius (edited 08-10-2001).]

[moebius]

Actually, go to the following link and check out some of the really cool ones:
http://www.lstock.demon.nl/aas2.html

[Imperion1]

Alot of ascii art reminds of the old Atari Computer / Commodore / Apple II days.

Yea, it does take a while and always started bothering my eyes after an hour.

[VERT]

wow, some impressive stuff there

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Brings back the days of BBS's, I remember using a program called ACID something to make that stuff, except you could make it animated, I used to have an animated AscII sig, But this art was all that was used on logons, there was also a program that would convert JPG's to ASCII art, though the name is long behind me. (bout 5-6 years) Used to Co-sop a couple of boards, but always had a Member do the art. =] takes a lot of skill.

[moebius]

Wizzard~Of~Ozz - any idea where i might find a program that can convert gif/jpeg images to ascii?

[club_med]

I came across this little neat proggy once that did that, but I can't remember where.

cm.

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/cnvsprog.htm

Though I doubt these are the ones that I used in the past. there are others but all you have to do is search the net for "Convesion program JPG ascii" and they all come up.
http://www.acid.org/asciid/

For some wild art and other neat progs from the warez courier dayz ACID was a group of ASCII artists.

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[Solidus]

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/46083.shtml

[hav0c]

ASCII art rules I used to do a lot of it and also ANSI art when I ran a BBS, I used a program called Acid Draw.. it made it quite easy to draw ASCII and ANSI art.

[moebius]

Wizzard~Of~Ozz - Man!! That first link you posted is pretty wild!! There's a **** load of ascii art there!!
Thanx.
Found a couple of conversion programs. First one i tried didn't do a good job. I'll see how the others fare.

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Havoc, Thanks for the reminder about ANSI art. Forgot what the coloured ASCII was called, and also for the ACID Draw, as you see in previous post I knew it was called ACID something. That and TheDRAW =] To many memories of good old days before the internet made it so big.