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drsparc — Flying Windows Invader
Published: 2008-07-23 01:11:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 345; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 30
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Auto-generated wallpaper. A really nice Windows wallpaper rendered through a Space Invader template. This hack normally looks like crap, but this one turned out OK.The original image is [link] by ~sagorpirbd ([link] ) who does very nice work.
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It is currently too specific for my own system... it isn't general enough to publish. I was going to try and separate each hack into a stand alone app that could be. But I was thinking of starting with the legoize hack first.
This image and the ones with separate images are a hack I call mad_maps. I have files that map a "#" where I want an image and a "." where I don't. So the file contents look like:
. . . . # # # # . . . .
. # # # # # # # # # # .
# # # # # # # # # # # #
# # # . . # # . . # # #
# # # # # # # # # # # #
. . . # # . . # # . . .
. . # # . # # . # # . .
# # . . . . . . . . # #
Which looks better in a fixed width font. So the script reads the file and builds the image using NetPBM tools. There is more to it, but that is the idea.
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