The ASCII Cam 122
griffjon writes "The folks over at Dyne.org have hacked together a method to take live camera feed and turn it into ascii-character video on Linux. You can get the latest release, or see screenshots from a live stream. Y'know, this kinda ascii could be good random noise input for a cipher."
Re:Encryption! (Score:1)
He cheats! (Score:1)
:)
Or, to quote NTK.NET... (Score:1)
OK, But it's the only way to watch sports. (Score:1)
http://anux.angel.net/asciicam/
not new (Score:1)
Re:Mmmmm..... (Score:1)
Don't say I never gave you anything
IRNI
Re:someone at SGI developed this 5 years ago (Score:1)
re: New pgp sig (Score:1)
To send me encrypted mail:
Run the end credits of Debbie Does Dallas backwards through the Elmer Fudd biff filter and use results as pgp key data.
Oh yeah
Grell
"May you live In Fortean Times"
Re:been done before (Score:1)
been done before (Score:1)
Text-mode atrocities unlimited (Score:1)
People are starving to death in the world, and you had time for this [mr.net]?!!
Re:Encryption! (Score:1)
Neat, but not really new. (Score:1)
Re:Nothing new (Score:1)
(Even just a man page reference would work...)
I gotta try it on my Indy.
--K
i know (Score:1)
New meaning.... (Score:1)
ok ya. (Score:1)
i'm too late all of the time, and i tend to repeat someone else's idea =)
Huh? No it's not. (Score:1)
This ain't news ! (Score:1)
acquire_image | anytopnm | pnmscale
ppmquant -fs -2 | pnmtopgm | pgmtopbm | \
pbmtoascii -2x4 >foo.txt
(where acquire_image is a suitable program, which spits an image in any format out of the desired source)
Complete (?) list of google screen shot caches (Score:1)
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
Re:Encryption! (Score:1)
tagline
Re:Cipher (Score:1)
it's actually a clever way to get a reasonable level of randomness (cheaper than renting atmospheric noise collectors, another method I've heard of).
sean
Re:Looks a little fishy... (Score:1)
Re:It's About Time... (Score:1)
Re:It's About Time... (Score:1)
Arguably, they would be better off with a 2x2 pixel x 2 bit grey decomposition, from a pure fidelity point of view, but using ascii is really cool. I was actually a bit dissapointed there was grey-scale at all. Just using different chars for that (".+*" for light through dark grey, "|-\/" for edge features, f.ex) would have been cooler, IMANHO.
Re:SSH and Telnet (Score:1)
slashdotted already (Score:1)
What really drives opensource? (Score:1)
Maybe that what got John Carmack started too?
Reminds me of ASCII Doom ... (Score:1)
-Moondog
Re:Use of Greyscale (Score:1)
If this ascii webcam thing is just for fun, though, then hey, nice job. It's probably pretty educational to write something like that.
slashcode web cacheing project (Score:1)
Obviously this is something that is desperatly needed.
Re:MosASCII (Score:1)
echo $email | sed s/[A-Z]//g | rot13
Re:Aim camera at senction of transparent sewer lin (Score:1)
Re:Nice (Score:1)
Uhm... I think that's a guy.
Re:nifty... (Score:1)
Re:Cipher (Score:1)
never thought about using hasciicam for chyphering
if you do so be sure to check out the flag into hasciicam.c that says:
ascii_parms.randomval = 0;
further info on aalib documentation (info aalib)
Re:False Advertising (Score:1)
to see asciicam on lynx you need to customize size of rendered html
Re:Looks a little fishy... (Score:1)
i said CONSOLE LIVE MODE screenshots
how can i show you that without images?
png are done with gimp without editing
tell me more about your problems...
Just in time for Supper Bowl XXXV (Score:1)
Where's the hack? (Score:1)
(OT)JPEG to ASCII conversion and Goatse.cx (Score:1)
How long before that goatse guy gets a hold of this?
I used the NetPBM [sourceforge.net] suite to convert goatse.cx [goatse.cx]'s "The Receiver" image to ASCII [slashdot.org]. It didn't look very good.
Oh, and IANTGCG (I am not the Goatse.cx guy).
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The Matrix, resolved! (Score:1)
Incidentally, does anyone know where to get a green filter for my upcoming ascii-cam?
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SGI did it all (Score:1)
http://reality.sgi.com/cpirazzi/ttyvideo.html
but since reality.sgi.com is down more often than not, you ought to hit the google cache at:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:reality.sg
after it fails to load directly.
cheers
Random noise? Maybe not. (Score:1)
Re: Video takes up too much bandwidth????? (Score:1)
I started using the net in 1992. I was a sophomore in high school, and I worked over the summer at the Naval Research Lab in Virginia studying solar flares. They had mosaic. But at that time, I believe they had just added support for gifs, and *everyone* was complaining about how certain sites took up too much bandwidth, and about how Netscape was adding all this "proprietary" tag support, for jpegs and other stuff...
I ask you, what happened??? All those people who complained didn't have a clue... The web has evolved for the better, just like everything else. Those people who don't accept the change are not just conservative, they're wrong.
not new (Score:1)
Nothing new (Score:1)
take another look (Score:1)
Random number generator... (Score:1)
bzzzzzzztttt (Score:1)
(==HELLo=Hihi=)
GUIGNOLISNOTDEAD(YET)!!
YUPIYUPIBORNTOBEALIVEANYWAY
+iHOXXHTIii==ii)IIII)i)))THXXHOL;
=iTXXHTi===;;;:::::::::;;;+=iILXXO+
+ii)LiiIii)TI))T)+;TI)iT)TIi===I)ii
=iiii++;+;;;=)i+;=i=;;;;;;++=i=+
))i)==++;++=)i++ii=++;;+===i=;
))I))i==iiii=++++i==)iII=,
=)ITIL)iiLHIi+==i)H==++=i)I)TII;
feww.. managed to post this as no junk
Photo - Ascii (Score:1)
Re:Cipher (lavarand actually) (Score:1)
this project was called lavarand. i spoke to the guy who started this about 3 years ago, smart guy.
heres the url for more info:
http://lavarand.sgi.com [sgi.com]
.brad
Drink more tea
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Re: Video takes up too much bandwidth????? (Score:1)
What people object to is high bandwidth crap. Useless text at least loads quickly. Waiting forever for a page to load only to find it's useless is a pain.
New troll tool (Score:2)
Re:Already being used to generate random numbers (Score:2)
For those that avoided this movie (good choice!), our hero as played by Keanu "Whoa" Reeves, encodes a large block of data in his mind by using 3 random images from television. The recieving end would have gotten the images by one means while Keanu's character would have travelled a different route, as such to protect the data. Of course, that's not at all how smoothly it works out...
Neat, but hardly new... (Score:2)
WOW - pictures from beyond the grave!! (Score:2)
Re:255 color gray scale? (Score:2)
I had to chuckle over the ``color gray scale'' phrase.
Also, the human eye can not detect much difference in gray levels once you get to about 64 levels; any more than that and your gilding lilies. But then, I supposed it doesn't hurt to go ahead and use the whole byte. :-)
All in all, I've got to say: ``Kudos to the author!'' This is one of the coolest things I've seen in quite a while. Not everyone's got a T1 into their home and this package could make crude but servicable video conferencing available for people on a budget... or can't afford a fat pipe... or live too far away from the CO for ADSL. Now I'm wondering how cheaply I can get a camera for the PCs at home...
\begin{aside}
Back in my grad school days I was doing programming involving image compression techniques (Hadamard, Haar, DCT, etc.), Viterbi encoding, etc. for use over noisy channels and the only output device I had easy access to that could produce a viewable image was the monster IBM band printer. We had some programs to produce output like the hasciicam only it used overstrikes to create much of the gray scale levels. (Other folks eventually got used to seeing before-and-after images hanging from the walls like wallpaper.) We eventually got (for another study) a thermal printer but was a pain to use (serial input from the mainframe, required expensive paper that turned yellow green after a while, etc.) This brings back some memories.
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OK, I shoulda been more explicit (Score:2)
what is he holding? (Score:2)
Encryption! (Score:2)
IMHO, it would be an extremly bad source of random noise. Large chunks of the image would be the static bits of the image, and the rest of it would be fairly repetitive - the face of whoever sat infront of the computer, or whatever.
Re:You could use it as a CCTV camera.... (Score:2)
Only if they commited a Capital crime.
Re:Encryption! (Score:2)
Could it be used... (Score:2)
Re:Encryption! (Score:2)
Re:slashdoted - google cache link for screenshot (Score:2)
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ascii.dyne.o
Maybe they should film the Matrix sequels... (Score:2)
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Wierd (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Already being used to generate random numbers (Score:2)
Train a camera on some lava lamps. Take a picture. Process bit stream. Random numbers.
The processing used to generate the ascii art here would probably reduce the randomness. Sorry. Try again.
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Re:SSH and Telnet (Score:2)
earliest Video to ASCII tool? (Score:2)
Nice to see a full open source release though rather than just an IRIX binary.
--LP
aatv (Score:2)
I dont have much else to say about it
(pls dont mod me down, I'm not logged in and dont have the oportunity to dselect the 'add 1 pt karma thing
Re:SSH and Telnet (Score:2)
I feel Robbed! (Score:2)
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It's About Time... (Score:2)
-Karl
excerpt from early Matrix script draft (Score:2)
The ship is quiet and dark. Everyone is asleep.
INT. MAIN DECK
The core glows with monitor light. Cypher is in the operator's chair as Neo cones up behind him.
CYPHER
Whoa! Shit, Neo, you scared the bejeezus out of ne.
NEO
Sorry.
CYPHER
No, it's all right.
NEO
What are you doing?
CYPHER
Midnight watch.
Neo's eyes light up as he steps closer to the screens that seem alive with a constant flow of data.
NEO
Is that... ?
CYPHER
An ASCII web-cam? Yeah.
The monitors are packed with bizarre characters and fuzzy shapes.
CYPHER
I've been watching it so long, I can make everything out. It used to be blonde, brunette, redhead... but now it's nothing more than a bunch of geeks with too much time on their hands.
Neo nods.
CYPHER
You want a drink?
He pours Neo a drink from a large plastic jug.
Neo takes a sip and it almost kills him. Cypher pounds on his back.
CYPHER
Good shit, huh? Dozer makes it... calls it Jolt. It's good for two things: degreasing engines and keeping coders awake.
Red-faced, Neo finally stops coughing.
Looks a little fishy... (Score:2)
Still just making a picture look like that deserves some credit
Never knock on Death's door:
Re:someone at SGI developed this 5 years ago (Score:2)
i started coding hasciicam on the code from xawtv's webcam by gerd knorr
the idea to make it html is the new thing
i'm not the first putting ascii into video !
Re:False Advertising (Score:2)
Re:Encryption! (Score:2)
you want random? (Score:2)
Same can be said for random irrelevant slashdot taglines...
Why? (Score:2)
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
John
Images to ASCII?? (Score:2)
How long before that goatse guy gets a hold of this?
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Info on Lavarand Patent (Score:2)
Being one of the Inventors of this (Beer Inspired) technique I have have a a lot of intrest in it.
Also, There will be a new website comming up in the near future http://www.lavarand.org (no link since it is not on the air yet) with new an improved access to a lavarand system.
Note the the intrested, the patent only covers using the data to seed a pseudo-random number generator ...
Cool, but not really ASCII (Score:2)
I think they should have used telnet for this stream.
Re:False Advertising (Score:2)
Use of Greyscale (Score:3)
live-screenz.html (Score:3)
screenz? i really have difficultiez respecting those that use z'z to pluralize their wordz.
You could use it as a CCTV camera.... (Score:3)
You'd have to keep it running consonantly, of course.
Re:Encryption! (Score:3)
UNICODE!!!!
real men would use EBCDIC.
tagline
nifty... (Score:3)
:)
slashdoted (Score:3)
PNG really necessary? (Score:4)
Oh, wait... I don't have ANSI terminal emulation enabled in Netscape... nevermind :)
Ahh, the good old BBS days. It's great that they now have "live webcam" functionality for systems like that, 10 years after they're useful :)
randomness from video source: sgi already did it (Score:4)
lavarand! [sgi.com]
walking past a fishbowl at SGI and seeing a bunch of "heat lamps" [sic] was pretty trippy...
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Cipher (Score:5)
Yeah, there's really nothing better for cryptography than a repeating stream!
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False Advertising (Score:5)
someone at SGI developed this 5 years ago (Score:5)
I found this webpage (circa 1995) detailing the software. Congrats Linux you've revolutionalized the computer industry again. I hope you at least stole *some* of the code before creating this new and wonderful tool...
http://reality.sgi.com/cpirazzi/ttyvideo.html
no egg!
SSH and Telnet (Score:5)
Finally video Pr0n at work! woohooo!
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Nice (Score:5)
Don't tell amihotornot.com about this technology...
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