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some time ago I got one of those programs that convert picture files to ASCII art files, I thought it's great.. and then never got to use it again... Now I need to convert some pictures to that ASCII art, and I figured they would look nicer in colors...

so I tried a test with a picture of my girlfriend; I scanned the picture, converted it with this program, put it in an html file and manually (sort of manually, I used Dreamweaver to select and create font tags quickly) crafted the colors, the results looked nice, and you can check them out yourselves here...

My aim is a Web application, where people enter the site, upload their picture, and have the script convert it to them as a colored HTML file..

Now I need to know, is there a utiliy to do that in Perl?? I tried to use Image::Magick but I can't seem to compile it correctly on my machine... and I can't access the server to install it...

so any thoughts about that??

I have an idea about the process, but don't know how to do it - if it is right that is...

read up the image file
create a matrix of the pixels and color intensities
define some characters that would work as shades of gray intesities
match neighbour colors inside a certain range as one color re-formatting the matrix
print out the html file based on the matrix.

any ideas??

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

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