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From: 3ksnn64@pur-ee.UUCP (Joe Cychosz)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.d,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Looking for line printer artwork
Keywords: printer art
Message-ID: <7148@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 20:25:50 GMT
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In article <495@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> tom@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Thomas Uffner) writes:
>Does anyone have a program to translate grey scale or bitmap graphics
>to an ascii (ie. line printer) approximation of the image?
>

Look in "Digital Image Processing" by Gonzalez and Wintz.  Appendix A has
some FORTRAN code to do this.  This book is readily available and is used
in the SIGGRAPH courses.