Editing Text Images (section)

==Day 1 - Tue 23Jan==

===Excelfie===
http://luciadossin.net/excelfie.html 

What is happening in this work? 

[[File:3excelfie-derivation1.png|400px|right]]

[[File:excelfie-2017-11-12-18.28.12.jpg|Excelfie at Zinecamp 2017|400px|right]]

===Typewriter Art===
[[File:TypewriterArt.jpg|500px]]

[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=11300 Download PDF]

[[File:typewritermanual.jpg|300px]]
[[File:newspaper.jpeg|700px]]



===ASCII Art===
<pre>
 _______________
< ASCII??ART??? >
 ---------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (xx)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
             U  ||----w |
                ||     ||

</pre>

<blockquote>
ASCII art is text art created with ASCII, a protocol established by the
American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which is America's
representative to the International Organization for Standardization
(IOS).  ASCII art uses ASCII text characters to produce images.  The
emoticon, an element of text messaging and email, is an example of ASCII
art at its most popular and functional. <ref>‘ASCII ART’. n.d. Accessed 2 January 2018. http://artscene.textfiles.com/information/ascii-newmedia.txt</ref>
 </blockquote>

<blockquote>Ascii Art as an idea coalesced into existence bceause people 
wanted more. They wanted more than just your standard Hercules 
display Atari or your Monochrome Commodore 64. To meet this 
demand, one singular artist, whose name is lost to the annals of 
history decided to take the plunge. Instead of text, he (or she) 
had the ingenuity to use the characters /, \, |, -, _ and 
whatever else came to mind to create words. An amazing idea. <ref>
Necromancer. 1998. ‘History of the PC Ascii Scene’. March 1998. http://artscene.textfiles.com/history/essays/pcascii.txt</ref>
</blockquote> 





===ASCII encoding===
[[File:USASCII_code_chart.png|500px]]

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===Plain-text===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Plain-text files
! Binary files
|-
| Each byte (8bits sequence) represents one ASCII character
| there is no one-to-one mapping between bytes and characters
|-
| Do not include any formatting information: only text
| Can have all sorts of formatting, like a Word doc, PDF, or image
|-
| are read/written with plain-text editors; or <code>less</code> <code>cat</code> commands  
| data can be interpreted by supporting programs, but will show up as garbled text in a text need specific applications, depending on the file, i.e.  Word for .doc. PDF-viewer for PDF
|-
| Are less likely to become corrupted, a small error shows up as a typo
| A small error may make it unreadable 
|-  
| common file formats: ??
| common file formats: ??
|}

===Exercise: a text-based image===
Create a piece of typewriter art or ASCII art.