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I'd seriously watch tv shows on this kind of screens. I'm even searching for old monochrome LCDs for a uber minimal retro laptop (think Grid Compass https://www.google.fr/search?q=grid+compass&tbm=isch).

Thanks !

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With 320 x 200 resolution on the Grid Compass you might be able to use conventional techniques to convert from color to monochrome.

At the 112 x 48 resolution I used, dither with or without error diffusion lost most of the image. Well, it would have looked fine standing back 6 feet or two metres or so, but what's the point if it looks bad at normal viewing disance?

I experimented with edge detection and GIMP filters like Posterize and Cartoonify reasoning they would tend to bring out the rough shapes in the image. I ended up doing some of it with Posterize and most with Cartoonify. The result is acceptable enough, but I do think the "tunnel" effects could be made to look a lot closer to the original.

I have a weird fetish for non realistic renderings, to the extreme (libcaca, terminal dithering), the more constraints the better.

My current obsession is finding a way to filter an image to display using the sharp MZ-series character set: http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/codetable.htm Very interesting symbol table for its time. Japanese so, it's like they always wanted emoji.

I know almost nothing, my desire came from reading this http://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html . In case that helps you.

3d rendering on ascii terminal, if you can, build and run the source ( http://www.a1k0n.net/2006/09/15/obfuscated-c-donut.html ), it's always pretty to see running.

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