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when toggle format what by license comment
Aug 26, 2017 at 17:38 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
Fix text file
Aug 26, 2017 at 17:17 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
Add another acceptable image format
Aug 18, 2017 at 7:57 comment added Blue @MDXF Ping me tomorrow about it in TNB and I'll post it then :P
Aug 18, 2017 at 3:28 comment added MD XF Do you plan to post this? I'd like to do so if you don't. Also, by community guidelines I'm allowed to do so in 7 days if you don't respond to this. This is a great challenge, I'd hate to see it go to waste!
Dec 25, 2016 at 16:55 comment added Blue @Flp.Tkc fixed. I've lost my example program over time now so I'll have to recreate one
Dec 25, 2016 at 16:54 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 25, 2016 at 16:52 comment added FlipTack Grammar question - does GUI's need that apostrophe? I'd write GUIs, but I don't know the rules for abbreviations like that
Dec 25, 2016 at 12:26 history edited FlipTack CC BY-SA 3.0
Typos
Dec 24, 2016 at 18:32 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
edited body
Dec 24, 2016 at 18:21 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 9, 2016 at 14:28 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
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May 25, 2016 at 14:42 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
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May 3, 2016 at 19:09 comment added trichoplax is on Codidact now If you want to give an explicit method, scale an X by Y image by min(80/X,24/Y). Then you just need to specify whether fractions become the floor, ceiling or are rounded.
May 3, 2016 at 19:03 comment added trichoplax is on Codidact now The resizing rule doesn't quite work since the screen isn't square. For example, if the image is 800 by 700, then the longest side is horizontal but scaling that down to 80 still leaves the vertical at 70, which is longer than 24. I think what you want is "Scale down the image just enough to fit into 80 by 24, while maintaining the aspect ratio as closely as possible"
May 3, 2016 at 18:47 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
remove pop-con
May 3, 2016 at 18:44 comment added Blue @trichoplax currently discussing this in chat
May 3, 2016 at 18:43 comment added trichoplax is on Codidact now If there is a clearly defined objective specification (which there appears to be) then popularity contest doesn't seem to be a good fit. If you don't have a reason to avoid golf, that seems a perfectly good fit.
May 3, 2016 at 18:27 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
Add winning criteria
Apr 4, 2016 at 10:49 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 6, 2015 at 17:19 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
changed to pop-contest
Sep 7, 2015 at 18:39 comment added Downgoat I think this would be better suited for popularity-contest because image processing / printing may very between systems. Correct output should probably be console based to avoid giving languages like JavaScript an easy advantage. Taking in input with function argument is also common. Also, are PPM allowed? This can make it easier for languages that don't support image processing well to participate.
Sep 7, 2015 at 12:37 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 6, 2015 at 18:13 comment added Blue @PeterTaylor 1. Removed that reference. 2. I hope that's clearer, it was meant to explain how you can use ANSI escaping. 3. Added that explicitly. 4. Loophole closed but I'm not sure how clear it is now.
Sep 6, 2015 at 18:10 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
made clearer
Sep 6, 2015 at 17:11 comment added Peter Taylor 1. ANSI is the name of a standards institute. "In ANSI" is not very clearly expressed. 2. It's not clear why, having said that the task is about outputting arbitrary images, you suddenly start talking about printing "Hello, World!". 3. You seem to be assuming that each character on the terminal will correspond to one pixel, but it's not clear why. And then you say that we can use any character. Wouldn't it make more sense to leave foreground alone and just change background and write a space? 4. You've left open a classic loophole by allowing people to scale their image to 0x0 or 1x1.
Sep 6, 2015 at 15:25 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
Add direction simularity of colours is in
Sep 6, 2015 at 15:15 comment added Blue Updated to answer 1,2,3,5. Answer to 4 upcoming.
Sep 6, 2015 at 15:13 history edited Blue CC BY-SA 3.0
Update spec
Sep 6, 2015 at 14:46 comment added ugoren 1. Are image processing libraries allowed? Decoding the image is the most difficult part. 2. What does "closest available colour" mean? How do you calculate the distance? 3. Provide a link to a simple reference about using ANSI escaping. 4. An example is great. One is enough, unless more examples can highlight different aspects of the question. 5. should the aspect ratio be maintained?
Sep 6, 2015 at 12:51 history answered Blue CC BY-SA 3.0