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February 26, 2004

Geeky ASCII poster photo thing

People who know me will know that my bedroom was is quite bare because I don't do crap on my walls... that's a lie there's quite a few postcards and stuff on there... but no posters... well there's a Star 101.3FM one as signed by Daniel Bedingfield, and a Smirnoff Black Ice one...

Anyways... I decided to make a geeky ASCII poster. After searching for a nice photo to use, I found this one of me when I was young:

Original Photo of Me

I then did cunning things in MATLAB to convert the different colour levels into ASCII characters.

So it looks a little like this - that's a small portion of the top left of the photo!

HOOHHHHHHHHHHHOHHHOOOOOXX
OOHHHHOOHHOOOOOOOOXXOOOXX
OHHOHOOOOOOOOOOXXOXXXXXOO
HHHOOOOOOOOHOOXXXXOOXXXXX
OOOOOOOOOOOOOXXOOHOOOOOXX
OHHOOOOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOXXXO
OOOOHOOOOHHOOOXXXXXXXXXXX
XOOOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XOOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XOOOOOOOOHOOXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXOOOXXOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Then I made it into a multipage poster with Publisher, and printed it... and now it's a poster on my wall, which looks like random crap up close... and an actual photo when viewed from a distance :-)

Poster on Wall

Download the PDF (72k) for yourself and then you can have a groovey poster all for yourself! :-)

A picture of me when I was young and a mention of Daniel Bedingfield... this is asking for trouble ;-)

Posted by Ed at February 26, 2004 7:47 PM | Geek |
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That is really rather sweet. Do you do requests?

Posted by: Owen on February 26, 2004 11:26 PM

Could do. Email me the piccy and I'll email you back a pdf.

Posted by: Ed on February 26, 2004 11:55 PM

I had a random freeware program that did that somewhere. Not quite as geeky as coding it in Matlan though :-)

Posted by: Joe on February 27, 2004 10:31 AM

Isn't Matlan some cheap clothes shop? ;-) (or something...)

Posted by: Ed on February 27, 2004 11:02 AM

Hey Ed,
You got the code at all?
I wouldn't mid converting it into PHP but can't be bothered to start from scratch...

Posted by: Andy on March 1, 2004 8:36 PM

this is so cool! that'd be so fun to have a picture of me like that... say, in my locker or sumthing... could u make one? i'd email u the pic, but idk yer email address since i just got here...

Posted by: Darwin on September 6, 2006 10:21 PM

even tho you posted this years ago i was wondering if you might want to share your matlab code?

Posted by: Neil on May 4, 2007 7:40 AM
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