[plug] Proxy module to convert common images to ASCII art?

[Simon Newton]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 02:31 +0000, simon wrote:

> 
> Given that we're talking about having the proxy on the far end of the link,
> perhaps you could hack the proxy to run all images through ImageMagick or
> similar to convert them to 1 bit b/w dithered images to reduce their size
> before they hit the link. It would have to be a bit smarter than that though,
> because some image formats only support certain bit depths etc. Bear in mind
> also that by changing the image depth etc you are also affecting the level of
> possible compression (you are compressing everything on the link right?) so my
> guess would be that the gains would be reduced further.

Iinet do something similar with the Web Accelerator :
http://www.iinet.net.au/dialup/webaccelerator.html

Cheers,

Simon N