AA3D - ASCII art stereogram generator

``New dimension for ASCII art''

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AA-project releases so called technology demo for it's new 3d stereogram technology (ASCII-3D-2000). It uses well known and popular random dot stereograms in ASCII ART (try to see above example). This technology will be soon included into mainstream AA-lib release (planned for new AA-lib 99). Code is complettely year 2000 compliant now and unicode support is comming soon! Separate teams are working at hardware acceleration chips to be released before year 2000.

Features

High quality ascii art stereogram rendering
Highly configurable
User friendly command line interface (including full online help)
Year 2000 compliant

Download

aa3d-1.0.tar.gz is avilable from AA-project ftp site: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/aa-project/aa3d-1.0.tar.gz. Java version got lost in the disc crash :(

Usage

Aa3d is stand alone program to convert simple text file 3d maps to stereogram. Input file should look as above:

11111111111111111111111111111111111
11111111111111111111111111111111111
11112222222222222222222222222211111
11112222222222222222222222222211111
11112222222222222222222222222211111
11112222233333333333333322222211111
11112222233333333333333322222211111
11112222233333333333333322222211111
11112222233333333333333322222211111
11112222233333333333333322222211111
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11112222233333333333333322222211111
11112222222222222222222222222211111
11112222222222222222222222222211111
11112222222222222222222222222211111
11111111111111111111111111111111111
11111111111111111111111111111111111

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Following options are available:

-w width

Image width (80)

-s step

Size of repeating seqence (12)

-t text

Text used to generate background

-r

Disable random text placement

-f file

Use file as input for raster

-d

Use digits instead of letters