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I could have coded something to generate customized versions of the original source, given three ASCII initials.

• logicallee 13y ago
  Come on, Chris. I'm a big fan of the humblebrag, but you would still have to draw the binary pixel version of each letter (because C doesn't come with binary pixel array versions of the 26 letters) - so it would be 8 times as much work at an absolute minimum (26 characters versus the 3 that you did), even if the code to embed them in the array were a completely obvious 1-liner, and so was the code to clean up the justification. Let's not flatter ourselves :)
  • chrissnell 13y ago
    Didn't mean to come off as arrogant but there are existing tools that would make this a lot easier. figlet(1) would make the pixel conversion pretty easy. Pixels to binary really isn't that hard. You could do it with a regex.
    • derekp7 13y ago
      Another way is to use the netpbm toolkit. First, use its ppmdraw command to rasterize each character to a canvas, then convert that canvas to xpm format (you have a separate canvas / picture for each character). The xpm format has the nice property that it is also a valid C structure. Real easy to then convert to whatever you want. Oh, and the netpbm toolkit has not only stand alone binaries, but it also has a C library for each of the conversions that it includes. Seems to be an older under-rated toolkit.
  • skrebbel 13y ago
    Render a Small Fonts text to a text-based monochrome image format with e.g. Imagemagick, read file, and parse each line as binary. Reverse array and separate by commas.