How do they make these!?
 

Seriously, how do they make these?!

http://www.romanm.ch/ascii-movies/as...der_ringe1.htm

it looks so damn cool!

It's a fairly simple exchange process originating with the early days of printing (before levels of gray existed in reproduction technology).

-Come up with your replacement images, be they dot sequences, ASCII characters, or whatever (mini pictures are neat, ala Julia Roberts' People mag cover)
-Analyze the image values for average color, brightness, or some combination.
-Now you have your gray map.

-Lay each original frame on a grid.
-Analyze each grid location and choose the matching level-of-gray replacement.

Replacements may be determined individually, or weighted by surroundings. Values within reason always create recognizable replacement images, but results can be made interesting by using different weighting methods for scanning the original and replacements.

-An old "pigs" member (printing, imaging, & graphics swine)

I hear all you say cyrnel but understand 0 of it! :| :lol:

:) Did you mean how are letters & symbols used to represent a picture, or how the author did it to the Golum movie clip?

I'm guessing you know what I meant about halftoning. I don't know what software the author used but wouldn't be surprised if there's a Premiere filter. It's a simple process, especially once you have a video framework and something serving the frames.

A little more info:

Looking at the source code you can see that twelve text pages are being cycled
by a java script.

I wanted to know how he made the letters/symbols into a movie..

Uhmm no I don't know halftoning and I don't get any of what you're explaining :| :lol: I thought I'd understand the process if someone explained it to me but boy was I wrong! I'm sure I'd get it if you showed the process to me but since I don't know anything about the Premiere Filter or halftoning I don't understand a thing when it's explained to me in words.

Perhaps if you made a drawing of some sort? :p

Cycled or re-cycled?

software found on google
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts..._Art/Software/

"Cycled or re-cycled?"

Shown one after the other.

I wish I knew where it was now...but I used to have a link to "Deepthroat" done in ASCII.

A_HA! found it.... http://www1.zkm.de/%7Ewvdc/ascii/java/

These guys will do it for you:

http://www.glassgiant.com/misc_ascii.php

The process of half-toning is converting a continous tone photograph into a series of dots in order to get it ready for printing. Old printing presses could not print continuous tone photographs.

That's an oversimplification but it gets the point across. No pun intended.