Comment by Terr_

2 months ago

> I think hustle-culture and the vision being pushed on my timeline is a corrupted one.

A satirical video which I think captures some of the frustration: "The Hustle" by Krazam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

> Machine Head - Derek Hobbs 1995

For anyone else a little nerd-sniped, the ASCII art head is 54,505 bytes, <=300 chars wide, 182 lines tall, using 20 distinct characters... But then I get hung up on what an equivalent picture could be, since the characters aren't just levels of greyscale intensity, but also contain internal detail that would then take more pixels to describe.

My original motive was something like: "If this were a PNG it would have only taken a much smaller X bytes."

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rzzzt  2 months ago

A very un-scientific screen grab and saving as a GIF gives me 604kB at 990×1000 pixels, but this does include color fringing at the edges of each letter and I'd be inclined to treat this as a 1 BPP image.

  • Terr_  2 months ago

    I bet somebody in the biz has a pipeline for running different algorithms/formats/compressions, and applying different metrics for "would these look about the same to a human on a certain screen at a certain distance."

    > 1 BPP

    Yeah, the different ASCII characters might be best modeled/analogized as local dithering.