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ASCII Portraits – recognise any faces?

April 30, 2009 | Fun | Gary Hartley | 4 Comments »

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We’ve been having fun with a cool little tool that converts JPEG images into ASCII code. When we crop and size this image to 60×50 this tool churns out a remarkably similar representation of the image. The further away you stand, the clearer it becomes. Here are some we made earlier of some friends.

ASCII portrait of Gary Hartley, AKA The Floating Frog

Me, Frog

Zoe Piper

Zoe Piper of Piggynap.com

Dominic Hodgeson

Dominic Hodgeson of TheHodge.co.uk

Simon Barker

Simon Barker of Zath.co.uk

Dave Naylor

Dave Naylor of Davenaylor.co.uk

Boris Johnson

The legend that is Boris Johnson.

New comers

Adrian Thompson

Adrian Thomson of Adrianthompson.net/blog/

If you want one of your own, leave a comment below with your email.

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Author :

Gary (aka Frog) is the co-founder of The Floating Frog and has written in excess of 200+ articles on all things design and web related. If you'd like to guest post on The Floating Frog on a subject you are really passionate about then please get in touch. For more information head over to our write for us page.

4 Responses so far

  1. Adrian Thompson Says:


    Can I get myself a piece of the action :)

    Adrian Thompson’s last blog post..Rotherham in the sun


  2. Anthony Says:


    Looks like it could be fun.


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  4. karen Says:


    cool. god. i want my pic be like that too ((:




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