[GreenKeys] Building categorized index of ASCII RTTY art from http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/.

[John Foust]

At 09:52 PM 1/24/2019, john at toebes.com wrote:
>Jordan Spencer Cunningham pointed me to a good source at <http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/>http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/ which is a collection of over 1700 “images” including Multistrike and multi-panels specifically for RTTY.  Unfortunately while there is a good description of each file, there is no index that I can find to quickly locate files of a particular type.  To that end I’m working to categorize all the images and post up a nice page allowing you to find images by type. 

Many years ago I wrote a little program that converts 
ASCII art to Adobe Illustrator files, which allows you 
to use a suitable teletypewriter font, then let other 
tools rasterize into thumbnail bitmap images.  In Illustrator,
you could also re-arrange multi-piece art into the desired 
single image.

This web page of mine focused on early computer ASCII art, but of course
there is some overlap as people found ways to move RTTY art to computers.
Jason Scott at Textfiles.com 

http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/index.html

In 2004, Jason Scott copied my files to http://www.textfiles.com/art/DECUS/ .

- John