TITLE: I've Been Toogled
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: September 04, 2004  4:37 PM
DESC: ascii art generating search engine
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ASCII art seems to be going through a renaissance these days.  This
<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/history.htm">
   quintessentially '70s art form</A>
has attracted a cult following among today's youth.  An example of this
phenomenon is the fun little search-engine-and-art-generator 
<A HREF="http://c6.org/toogle/">
   Toogle</A>.
Toogle feeds your query to Google Images and then generates an ASCII art
version of the #1 image it finds using the characters of the query as
its alphabet.  The images look pretty good; it even reproduces colors
well.

<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2004-07.html#e2004-07-22T10_07_47.htm">
   True to form,</A>
I have
<A HREF="http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=eugene+wallingford">
   Toogled myself</A>.
The result is shown above.  Not the first image I would choose, but
who am I to doubt Google Images?

Now I can tell everyone that I really am a man of letters.
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