Sweetie: How do ASCII-art in a few minutes

I think any time you met, wandering the back streets of the Internet, strange, but quite original images composed of various characters and letters. Agree, it looks quite interesting. A reasonable question arose, probably in front of each: how exactly do similar drawings? Is sitting for weeks (months?) And picking up the characters to make a similar pattern? Of course not, it's much easier. And thanks Sweetie application for OS X - quickly.

ASCII-art - so called image, which consist of different symbols, numbers or letters. Initially, when there was no special software, like art "draw" real experts, who also had a huge reserve of patience and perseverance. Now you yourself can make a similar picture, but this time it will take no more than five minutes.

ASCII graphics (from the English. ASCII artwork) - a form of fine art that uses ASCII characters to monospaced screen computer terminal (terminal server) or a printer for presenting images. When creating such images uses palette consisting of letters, numeric characters and punctuation characters symbols among 95 character ASCII table. Due to the high probability of differences in the representation on systems with national variants table remaining 160 symbols are usually not used.

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When you first start Sweetie offers familiarize yourself with the program through the videos on the site, rate the app or write a letter to developers. All these steps are, of course, are not required to get started, so you can immediately start building your ASCII-art.

Click "Get Started" and select your own image, we want to "overtake" in ASCII- image. After that we get additional options are available: font, color, type of background and character set, as well as additional options for the entire image of the grid: the grid type (symmetric or asymmetric), size and padding characters in pixels.

Combining all of these settings to your liking, you can achieve very interesting results. If the incorrect fonts, instead of a nice picture, you risk getting a common set of symbols, not even remotely resembling even any picture. The same applies to the background and color. Considerable value can play a set of characters. The default program is worth ASCII characters, but it is limited, so if the original image you have enough a lot of small parts, you can try to put in a set of all available characters - it will make the picture more detailed.

Once you're satisfied with the result, your image can be stored on the local computer or immediately send one of the two popular social networks: Facebook or Flickr, in order to show off to friends.

It was not without minor flaws. For example, the program does not provide for such actions as "Undo" / "Step Up", which sometimes makes it difficult to select the appropriate options for the processed image. In addition, when you close the program does not occur with the issue of the dialog box about whether I want to save the result of their activities. All anything, but when re-start Sweetie does not restore the results of past actions that may adversely affect the work if you accidentally close the application.

In general, all works well enough, and most importantly - fast. Processing does not take a lot of time, even if you take a picture with high resolution. The price of 99 rubles could easily justify itself. And for those who prefer to first try before you pay - there is a demo mode where each picture watermark will be imposed. Download this version you can website developers.