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

[Adam Hewitt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Simon Newton
> Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:03 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Proxy module to convert common images to 
> ASCII art?
> 
> 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
> 

Except that this only works on a dialup link (which I doubt the OP's
link would be a dialup link with cents per meg), and it is a
server/client senario where you have to pay relatively large licensing
fees to get the server component.

Adam.