Yeah... So one day I got bored at work and decided to make my own ascii art renderer.   It started off as a modest attempt to stave off my mundane work day and ended up being a pretty fun little exercize. If you don't like the predefined gradients, you can redefine the gradient yourself. Pretty much everything is configurable in it except for the autosize spec: you're stuck with 80 chars.

I'd like to think that everything is pretty self-explanatory but if you get confused, email me, yo.

The latest version allows you to export to colorized ascii art:

Me all colorized in colorized ascii form using only hash marks keebler's dead rabbit done up with color ascii rendering ascii goatse ascii goatse (lower res)

Here are a few Ascii Art examples, rendered by the ascii-izer:

main image ascii the blues brothers ascii

This whole thing was written in java and is pretty damn spiffy if you ask me. If you want to download it, feel free. Just click here (right-click "save as")and run it on your comp. It needs a JVM installed on your machine, but you can get that from SUN. Once you have the JDK installed on your system, just type "java -jar ascii_izer.jar" from a command prompt. The rest is butter.

If you want the older no-color version, get it here.

Believe it or not, this site is actually about my band. Listen to some of our music.

If you thought this was neat, check out some of my other projects:

- Boid Bees - behavioral animation - Robot Animation Madness - keyframe animation/interpolation -Vector Field Insanity - particles and streamlines - Vtk Dementia - fun with isosurfaces -Cell Shading Craziness - cartoon rendering, y'all - the movies - movies of all of them in action - Dithering Goodness - an applet that lets you play with different dithering styles -Mosaic Fun Time - another applet that let's you play with mosaic distorions

people have wanted to see ascii goatse since 11/20/03... what a bunch of freaks...