September 7, 2007 at 12:00 am Post Author: Giania Tags: Anime, Art, ascii_art, del_icio_us, description, desu, flash-games, Goodies, Internet Toys, meme, optical_illusion ·
At Typorganism there’s a fascinating little tool that will take JPEGs sized 60×50 pixels and turn them into either letter or block style ASCII art in either color or black and white.
There are five sample faces you can play with to get a feel for what the tool can do: 3 male faces, one female face and one cat face.
There is also a picture upload option. I played with this tool for a moment and of course I had the perfect sample picture to test the tool’s limits.
I found the “Generate HTML” option slightly desceptive. Selecting this option with the color and square options will open a new window with a JPEG output of the Flash-generated image. Which is great for saving, but not “true” ASCII. However, if you opt for the letters option, this tool will definitely deliver!
Forgive the display, I can’t quite make it work the way I want. Below the cut to hide my shame.
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August 31, 2007 at 5:00 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: Art, del_icio_us, flash-games, flickr, Goodies, Internet Toys, optical_illusion, Science!, Web 2.0 ·
By now you may have seen the “seam carving” image editing video, demonstrating a new, kickass way of resizing images to retain the key elements and pick out threads that are “less relevant” to retain the overall feel of the original image.
Thanks to the glory of my del.icio.us feed, I’ve found a flash tool that will resize web-hosted images in this fashion. The tool’s author is still working on some of the more advanced features discussed in the video, but right now it’s really fun to play with the vertical and horizontal resizing.
Load a few of your flickr images and play with it!
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August 28, 2007 at 7:00 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: beaujolais_villages, del_icio_us, food_consumption, Goodies, Guides, internet, Internet Toys, lifehack, networking, Potent Potables, unhealthy_foods, vices, Web 2.0, wines ·
Moving up in the del.icio.us ranks is a little site called Cork’d. The concept? “Review, Cellar, and Share Wine”. Internet savvy dipsomaniacs rejoice! Now you have a place to chat about your maddening obsession with fermented grape juice of various ages, with all the charms that only a Web 2.0 named site could provide.
They’ve got a 100 point rating system for wines, and a handy price scale of 1-4 dollar signs to indicate general cost of wines.
They seem to have dozens upon dozens of different wines, but they’re lacking the one that really pops my cork: 2004 Georges Dubeuf Beaujolais Villages.
Had I the means to maintain a cellar, I’d probably be all over this site. Just like any other lifehack/organizer tool, this one’s looking pretty good at what it’s all about. Even though I’m not ready to make an account and start going all ga-ga over my perfectly preserved, carefully selected wines, I’ll definitely use this site as a reference for buying bottles of special occasion wines. Always handy to know if that bottle with the pretty label in the store is delicious or junk.
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