I just noticed that the document is in XLS format, though it is seen running in OpenOffice.org Calc. (On a Mac?)
The AC/DC ASCII-art video (one I first saw in an XLS format a couple of years ago) as done in ODS doesn't use any Windows-specific objects. The narrative explaining how that one was done (linked by Andrea) goes into that. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 15:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Yes. You can do this with OpenOffice. (MysteryGuitarMan video with OpenOffice Mac) On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Andreas Säger <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 10.08.2012 02:24, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> >> And here is the "behind the scenes" video that explains how he did it: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PCTinsZ7dM >> > > Having a video converter which creates the coarse pixel frames, all you need > is one matrix of color values per frame and script to dump them into the > Calc document. > > Matrix of 16 colors calculated from 32x32 random values: >> >> http://www.mediafire.com/file/zfw69gddrcwacoc/PixelMatrix.ods > Cool. How would we get the pixel level numeric data into the spreadsheet initially? I assume there is nothing in the macro language that can parse image data at that level. So we'd need to call out to a helper library? Also, one other nice time to have -- not strictly necessary, but would improve the results -- picking an optimal color palette that best matches the colors in the original image. There are some standard algorithms for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quantization -Rob > >
