
VERMAN ART CONVERTER (Jun 2005)
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1. SUMMARY
	This demo converts any jpg/bmp file to either ASCII art or to a text 
	mosaic (transform pictures in text). Originally made to impress a girl 
	(and to experiment with C#) who, by the way, didn't give a damn about it :-/  

2. REQUIREMENTS
	-Windows XP
	-.NET framework 1.1+
	
3. HOW TO USE
	-Basically you go through the steps in the program:
	1. Load a source image file to play with
	2. Select the output type (ASCII or text mosaic)
	3. Image quality (5 very good to 1 poor)
	4. process the image
	-Additionaly if you selected text mosaic as output you must input
	the text and the font/color of the final image.
	
4. HOW TO COMPILE
	-You need Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003/2005/express edition)
	-Just open the solution file asciiart.sln and press Ctrl+F5 to build-run

5. CODE STRUCTURE
	-There's just one class which has the two output methods: doMOSAIC() and
	doASCII().
	-For the ASCII image we transform the input image into grayscale and then
	according to the brightness of each pixel we assign an ASCII character
	(high intensity = "#", low intensity = ".", for instance).
	-For the MOSAIC image we can either convert to gray-scale or full color
	in either case we take the brightness as well and according to this create
	a bigger or smaller font to draw the text.
