[extropy-chat] ascii conversion of images?

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 17:26, Johnius wrote:
>   I hope this isn't too off-topic for this list,
> but I'm looking for an excellent ordered set of 
> ascii characters to use in converting and 'shading'
> satellite imagery into text pseudo-images.
>   My current set is: ' ', '.', ',', ':', '-', '+',
> '*', '&', '%', '#', going from light to dark.
> 
If he can display 8-bit ascii, it may be worth having a look at aalib. 
if he can do curses, then libcaca might even provide you with colour.

alejandro