Ascii art

Yup, good old classic Ascii art.
Getting more and more high tech here at Palmnet by the minute!

Anyway, though this may sound like a trivial topic, and you might just be right there, I have been fiddling round with a script I started a few weeks back.
While on MSN with a Mr. Dan Horgan I was trying to find something to busy myself with, and something other than the Computing college work I was meant to be doing.
Thus the idea of an image to ascii art generator was spawned!
The original challenge was to see how much of it I could do in an hour, and in that time I managed to get about 4 greyscale levels going on from a full colour jpeg. This wasn't too pretty, as I'm sure you can understand.
However, since then I have bumped it up to 6 shades of grey, yes, a massive 6!
It also has colour, plain shading, no shading, scaling (antialiased) and back colouring too!

Anyway, that's far too much waffle, so if you actually read this point I guess you deserve some screenshots:




Or to try it out yourself, visit: http://sandbox.palmnet.me.uk/ascii/test.php
And use the parameters: 'scale=', 'colour', 'backcolour', 'plain', 'blank'.

RSS / PWnet

Also from recent news, PWnet has just had an update of the main site.
However Phil Wylie, head of PWnet was having a few issues with an RSS feed display on his contact form that would notify prospective contactors of any known issues, to save him getting lots of emails all based on a common theme.
20 minutes with me and his script was ready to go!
Check out the RSS notifications on his contact form now. (Take note there might not be any if PWnet is running smoothly, which it always does of course :P)

College

Well, computing work was finally handed in!
Coming up to 100 pages of pure drivel, reminds me of this rather long blog post...
Anyway, just a bit of electronics to do, hopefully done by tomorrow and then I have a week or two to play about till serious revision time kicks in!
In that time I hope to maybe add a couple of new features to the new Palmnet system, update the blog system a little, iron out a whole heap of bugs and perhaps even start on the shoutboxes next version: MNAH.

Anyway, Lack of posting recently is my excuse for this HUGE post. I'll try post shorter stuff, and post it more often though