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However, traditional ornamental typefaces are usually created by skilled artists, which involves tedious manual processes, especially when searching for appropriate materials and assembling them. These appealing word-art works often attract the attention of more people and convey more meaningful information than general typefaces. Ornamental typefaces are a composite artwork made from the assemblage of images that carry similar semantics to words. We present a method for creating ornamental typeface images. Since our system can produce ASCII art images in a few seconds, users can create several ASCII art images using different matching metrics, then select the one they like the most.
We provide four matching metrics for converting an image into an ASCII art.Based on experimental results, we found that the suitable matching metrics to produce visually pleasant ASCII art images de-pend on the type of the input images.
In this paper, we propose an interactive system which cre-ates structure-based ASCII art. As such, an automatic method that creates structure-based ASCII art is required to reduce the tasks of ASCII art creation. However, in general, it takes beginners a long time to create structure-based ASCII art. The structure-based style can represent content by using less number of ASCII characters compared to the tone-based style. ASCII art can be categorized into two styles, tone-based style and structure-based style. ASCII art is commonly used in media that cannot display images or mainly use text, such as e-mail and bulletin board system.
One example of NPR is an art form called ASCII art which represents pictures using charac-ter strings. Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR), whose aim is to create artistic style images, is one of the important research topics in computer graphics. Convincing results and user study are shown to demonstrate its effectiveness. Together with the constrained deformation approach, we formulate the ASCII art generation as an optimization that minimizes shape dissimilarity and deformation. Our key contribution is a novel alignment-insensitive shape similarity (AISS) metric that tolerates misalignment of shapes while accounting for the differences in position, orientation and scaling. Most existing shape similarity metrics either fail to address the misalignment in real-world scenarios, or are unable to account for the differences in position, orientation and scaling. Representing the unlimited image content with the extremely limited shapes and restrictive placement of characters makes this problem challenging. It approximates the major line structure of the reference image content with the shape of characters. This paper presents a novel method to generate structure-based ASCII art that is currently mostly created by hand. Existing tone-based ASCII art generation methods lead to halftone-like results and require high text resolution for display, as higher text resolution offers more tone variety. The wide availability and popularity of text-based communication channels encourage the usage of ASCII art in representing images.