Miscellaneous software packages

Graphics Software

Textograph

Textograph is a little Java utility for PC’s (Windows / Mac OS / Linux / Unix) that takes an image in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format and converts it to a black and white image pixelated by text characters. The utility uses different text characters to represent different grayscale levels based on the “density” of the characters – the amount of black in the characters’ glyphs. The resulting images can be saved as plain text files, and used to present pictorial images in text-only media (e.g., for pictorial signatures in email messages, etc.)

The image below is a photograph of the author transformed into a text image with textograph. (The image below is a screenshot to simplify embedding into this webpage.)

 

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