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Postings from November 2001
I would like to improve the CPAN Acme::EyeDrops module by adding more shapes. Especially shapes depicting Larry Wall and other Perl luminaries. The goal is to find a characterization of Larry that is recognizable even in the simple ASCII text file format used by EyeDrops (i.e. an EyeDrops .eye file). Converting a photo to an ASCII file might work, though I suspect a caricature will produce better results. So, if anyone has some suitable photos or caricatures of Larry or other Perl luminaries, please let me know. (I remember seeing a photo of Larry that "proved" that Larry and Weird Al Yankovich were one and the same person:-). One way to convert a postscript file into a form suitable for EyeDrops is: gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -sOutputFile=f.tmp larry.ps pbmreduce 2 f.tmp >f2.tmp (optionally reduce) pbmtoascii f2.tmp >f.txt Alternative conversion techniques are welcome. Andrew.Thread Next