The ASCII-ized World

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It's a Color-ized World

It's a Color-ized World 06/22/2005 01:56 AM

Kodak to Discontinue Black-and-White Paper: After all, black-and-white is just a couple mouse clicks away from every picture these days.

"It's a shame to see it go," said Bill Schiffner, editor of Imaging Business magazine in Melville, N.Y. "Digital has done a lot of good things for the industry but it's done some bad things too. It's making a lot of these processes obsolete."

Thanks to Carter for this.

TetrUSS CFD software now Panther-ized

TetrUSS CFD software now Panther-ized 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
No, it's not some obscure rip-off of the popular puzzle game Tetris. TetrUSS computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software is a suite of applications that was originally developed for internal use at NASA. Now it's utilized by engineers and scientists across the country to analyze fluid dynamics and aerodynamics.

Land Warrior Army Suits Simplified,
Linux-ized

Land Warrior Army Suits Simplified,
Linux-ized 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Slashdot Oct 27 2003 6:15PM ET

ascii 3.3

ascii 3.3 12/24/2003 02:29 PM
Recognize and print ASCII character names and decimal/octal/hex codes.

ascii 3.2

ascii 3.2 12/15/2003 09:24 PM
Recognize and print ASCII character names and decimal/octal/hex codes.

ascii 3.6

ascii 3.6 01/11/2004 04:50 PM
Recognize and print ASCII character names and decimal/octal/hex codes.

New: Moving ASCII 1.0

New: Moving ASCII 1.0 07/27/2004 11:24 AM
Moving ASCII generates ASCII movies and images, composed of letters, numbers, and other ASCII characters instead of pixels, and arranged to preserve the impression of the original image or movie.

r.i.p. bob bemer (ASCII, esc, \)

r.i.p. bob bemer (ASCII, esc, \) 06/25/2004 03:15 PM
someday i'll be recognized for my evangelism of the tilde key

ASCII Viewer 2.6

ASCII Viewer 2.6 07/30/2004 12:13 AM
ASCII Viewer allows you to display the full ASCII table and the ASCII code of pressed keys.

ASCII/edit 1.0

ASCII/edit 1.0 11/03/2003 04:03 PM
An editor for tables, diagrams, or simple graphics made of ASCII characters in a fixed-width font.

ASCII cows and other art

ASCII cows and other art 09/12/2004 10:37 AM

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Many of these sites are hosted on free sites that limit bandwidth - if you can’t reach them now, try again later. COMPLETE GUIDE TO COWS The Signature Museum Roman Messmer STAR WARS ASCIIMATION (Best viewed in Internet Explorer) LG Beard’s Weird Wonderful Wacky World of Ascii Art The Great ASCII Art Library ASCII Art Dictionary…

Convert-ASCII-String-0.07

Convert-ASCII-String-0.07 01/04/2004 05:55 PM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.33

Convert-ASCII-String-0.33 02/15/2004 05:56 AM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.06

Convert-ASCII-String-0.06 01/03/2004 07:27 PM

Kill Bill Vol 1. in ASCII

Kill Bill Vol 1. in ASCII 09/02/2004 08:11 AM
Xeni Jardin: Someone has translated Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 into a series of ASCII text images. Uma's looking unusually thin here, as if she were -- I don't know, a stick figure. But: brilliant. Link (thanks, Case)

Convert-ASCII-String-0.05

Convert-ASCII-String-0.05 01/02/2004 10:59 PM

"C505 | ASCII ROCK"

"C505 | ASCII ROCK" 07/11/2004 09:57 PM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.31

Convert-ASCII-String-0.31 01/23/2004 05:26 PM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.02

Convert-ASCII-String-0.02 01/01/2004 10:54 PM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.01

Convert-ASCII-String-0.01 01/01/2004 06:12 PM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.23

Convert-ASCII-String-0.23 01/11/2004 10:07 AM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.03

Convert-ASCII-String-0.03 01/01/2004 10:54 PM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.30

Convert-ASCII-String-0.30 01/22/2004 06:15 PM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.08

Convert-ASCII-String-0.08 01/05/2004 11:07 AM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.2

Convert-ASCII-String-0.2 01/06/2004 10:30 AM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.1

Convert-ASCII-String-0.1 01/06/2004 10:30 AM

Convert-ASCII-String-0.09

Convert-ASCII-String-0.09 01/05/2004 11:43 PM

Ascii Generator dotNET

Ascii Generator dotNET 04/02/2005 11:14 AM
Ascii Generator dotNET Beta 1.0 Released

AA3D- Ascii-Art 3D engine

AA3D- Ascii-Art 3D engine 07/06/2004 06:27 PM
Ground-breaking

What's YOUR favourite ascii fart? \m\
(-_-) /m/

What's YOUR favourite ascii fart? \m\
(-_-) /m/ 11/15/2003 10:03 PM
Ascii Farts.

ASCII Code in Dialog Boxes

ASCII Code in Dialog Boxes 09/21/2004 12:43 AM

Covert Channel: ASCII Art Over ICMP

Covert Channel: ASCII Art Over ICMP 05/18/2004 02:57 PM

Extreme minimalist ASCII boob art

Extreme minimalist ASCII boob art 07/19/2004 09:57 PM
Fourteen lines, 28 total breasts, 6 characters maximum per line. Link (via Fleshbot)

Data-TreeDumper-Renderer-ASCII-0.01

Data-TreeDumper-Renderer-ASCII-0.01 06/27/2004 10:06 AM

Convert ASCII Code to Character

Convert ASCII Code to Character 06/22/2004 05:05 PM

Spammers Use Dark Ages' ASCII Art Trick

Spammers Use Dark Ages' ASCII Art Trick 03/17/2005 03:27 AM
Spammers are not stupid. Just to drive this point home, they are now employing an age old ASCII trick in an attempt to jump by junk mail filters. ASCII art used to be a fun thing. It is a shame to see such a fun part of the Internet’s history turned into something to sell Viagra….

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Source code: String of ASCII or Tree of
Goodness?

Source code: String of ASCII or Tree of
Goodness? 02/01/2005 10:12 PM

I am a big fan of tools which hide the underlying complexities of code from developers. I argue constantly with a developer collegue of mine about this. He advocates source code level control. I want to ditch source code all together. It becomes too messy even with source control tools and tracking systems. I've seen RAD environments try to incorporate Flowcharting instead of code. This worked to an extent, but was never robust enough.

The development tools which came from NEXT and are now part of Mac OS X begin to create a "building" block style of framework. Users still create code, but then items in the GUI are wired together simply by dragging and dropping icons that represent objects, adapters and other abstractions of the underlying code. This is powerful. What's needed here is the visual tools to edit and create source code via similar "blocks" and then those block can be reused and refactored as code is developed.

I think may of the advances in programming will not come into being until operating systems begin to embrace Virtual Reality and 3D spaces are part of their interfaces. 2D representations of code are usable, but in order to work quickly, developers will need a 3D space in which to operate. Source code is structured, but in multiple dimensions, and layers of code exist on different planes. More advanced visualization equipment and OSes are needed before some advances can begin.

Source code as structure rathe than text … bring it on

Jon Udell blogs about The Deep Structure of Code. Instead of treating source code as a boring old text file, treat it as a data structure. Then, you can render it however you like it. I was captivated by this idea when I read this 2003 James Gosling interview about Jackpot.

Gosling explained that treating programs as structures lets you perform powerful refactorings:

It’s a very different world when a program is an algebraic structure rather than a bag of characters, when you can actually do algebra on programs rather than just swizzling characters around. A lot of things become possible … If you look at any of the refactoring books, most of those refactoring actions become much more straightforward, in ways that are fairly deep.

In addition, he illustrated how views can be flexible:

[O]nce it’s not text, all of a sudden you can display it in really interesting ways … You can, for example, turn the square root function into the obvious mathematical notation. You can turn the identifier theta into the Greek letter theta. You can turn division into the horizontal bar with numbers stacked. And we’ve done experiments with wackier things, such as trying to generate real time flow charts.

Software developers, we need to eat our own dog food. Through the magic of software, we’ve allowed end-users to view and manipulate databases in countless ways. A single corporate database might be viewed and edited via any number of command-line interfaces, charts, text reports, and web pages. But how about source code? Just a glorified text editor will do, mate.

Eclipse and Idea advance the idea somewhat. They do treat code as structure and are much more powerful on the refactoring side. Also, plugins are available that manipulate this structure to render code as UML. But there is so much more to go.

In terms of manipulation, you should be able to manipulate code like a GUI — altering the source code text of an attribute performs a rename refactoring; dragging one class into another makes it an inner class.

In terms of display, data structures could be represented visually (and manipulated that way too). For instance, a multi-dimensional array could be depicted as a filled-in table. This view would be especially useful during debugging. Lines between words could be shown to indicate relationships. These views don’t all have to be on; the point is to make them flexible, in much the same way as systems for experts in other domains. That’s the magic of software, and something you can’t do with paper: infinite representations of the same data; the right combination chosen based on the user’s disposition and situational needs.

As a side note, the idea of representing the code in XML is actually a non-issue. As Jon Udell points out, programmers themselves don’t have to touch the underlying structure, and Eclipse/Idea are living proof.

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Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird to Send
Plain ASCII Text

Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird to Send
Plain ASCII Text 02/17/2004 02:43 AM
Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text is an exhaustive primer about why sending e-mail as HTML is wrong, something we've posted about before. The overview lists how to configure mail clients to send in plain-text, including instructions for several old versions of Mozilla and Netscape are listed. However,...

Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain
ASCII Text

Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain
ASCII Text 02/16/2004 05:20 PM
Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text

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