Text Art Part One: GlassGiant and Text-Image

This week has been very crazy for me. But, that is on my own accord. I had planned to start this assignment early over the weekend but I had a drawing to do for class Friday, a wedding I almost forgot about Saturday, and a pumpkin to carve Sunday. The pumpkin should have only taken an hour, but I had many interruptions unfortunately.

As I dived into this week's assignments, I wish I would have taken the time earlier to experiment more. Although I think I did a good job with what I created, I wish I had more time to tweek every detail and just explore the settings more. Part one of this week's assignment utilized GlassGiant, which took an image you upload and uses a character encoding scheme to transform your image into a text based image. This image is my 'No Soliciting' image from my urban landscape assignment. I like how the text makes up the image that involves text. The text literally makes up the words 'No Soliciting'. I love it.

Text-Image pretty much does the same thing. I used another picture from my urban landscape assignment. This is a warehouse off of Monroe Street with a barbed wire fence that unfortunately prevented me from exploring it more. I loved that it kept the color from my original image. The initial setting used numbers to generate the image and I changed to different words like 'warehouse' 'wire' 'colossal' and so on. But, I didn't like the effect as much. So, I went back to the initial setting and found that the numbers made the image look more complete and less fragmented.


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