DUE: Tuesday February 15th, by the end of class
The purpose of this project is to invite students to utilize alternative methods of creating a graphical image.
Students should select a black and white photographic image. Using a text editor such as Mac's TextEdit or Window's Notepad, the student should then recreate this image in as realistically as possible using only ASCII-based keys. This file should be saved as a .txt file.
If using Mac's TextEdit there are a few settings you MUST take care of or you will encounter problems. First, you must make sure to turn off real text formatting. You will know that this is off if you do not see a ruler in your text window. After adjusting each setting, you need to save your file, quit completely out of the program (using Command+Q), and then restart. Second, make sure that you are using the return key at the end of each line, instead of permitting the window size to determine the end-of-line. This will maintain the appropriate dimensions. Finally, in order to save yourself a lot of trouble and heartache for the next segment of this assignment, you should use a minimal character key to represent spaces - such as a period - instead of using the spacebar.
We will finish this project in class, along with a critique, before moving onto the second phase of this project. In class, we will make screenshots of each project and post to this blog the final result.
For reference, see Jason Scott's www.textfiles.com art documents.
