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	1 .SH tgtimes
	2 Synthetic ASCII Art
	3 .2C 57v
	4 .
	5 .PP
	6 When an entirely new way to solve problems is discovered,
	7 all sorts of medias, and not only the tech-oriented ones,
	8 are fond to publish abundantly about it.
	9 Be it quantum computing, blockchains, machine learning...
	10 Shortly after a new big toys like these comes-up,
	11 hackers come, and start experimenting with it,
	12 sometimes coming-up with entirely new way to use it.
	13 .
	14 .PP
	15 This time we are reviewing the combo of Machine Learning and ASCII art.
	16 .
	17 .PP
	18 I was expecting to present cute attempts at drawing images with computer…
	19 Be prepared to see Science at the service of Art.
	20 .
	21 .IP "Generated Typewriter Art"
	22 This research paper (no less!) shows that it is possible to write softwa…
	23 later typed during 6 hours by a human operator (for this example).
	24 It is unsettling to see details much smaller than the characters themsel…
	25 along with shades of grey of various intensities.
	26 .
	27 .FS
	28 https://graphicsinterface.org/wp-content/uploads/gi2021-13.pdf
	29 .FE
	30 .
	31 .IP "Generated ASCII Art in 2010"
	32 This is possibly the state of the art of 2010 technology.
	33 It was announced in the yearly conference SIGGRAPH hence presented to an…
	34 The work of three researchers from Hong Kong, Xuemiao Xu, Linling Zhang …
	35 The story does not tell whether there ever was a job offer "looking for …
	36 While the paper contains the complete math used, it also illustrates and
	37 explains methods to achieve this level of accuracy.
	38 And no, it is not exactly machine learning, but hand-crafted strategies,…
	39 After all, it was published five years before things like Tensor Flow we…
	40 .
	41 .FS
	42 http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/asciiart/asciiart.html
	43 .FE
	44 .
	45 .IP "Generated ASCII Art in 2017"
	46 Is seven years enough time to improve upon that previous achievement?
	47 Quoting the previous paper as well as others in its own work,
	48 Osamu Akiyama of the Osaka Faculty of Medicine kept the ball rolling.
	49 This throws the big guns of machine learning to reach higher skies.
	50 Its input data were Japaneses BBS such as 5chan (2chan) or Shitaraba,
	51 which extends the ASCII set to all of unicode, notably the CJK set.
	52 If the result of the paper are not enough to convince you,
	53 the "Bad Apple" often used as a video demo in the Asian market have been…
	54 Something out of reach if doing every frame by hand.
	55 The TensorFlow and Python code used is released publicly,
	56 and an online demo is offered for the curious.
	57 .
	58 .FS
	59 https://nips2017creativity.github.io/doc/ASCII_Art_Synthesis.pdf
	60 .FE
	61 .FS
	62 https://nips2017creativity.github.io/
	63 .FE
	64 .FS
	65 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8GulN69Cgbg
	66 .FE
	67 .FS
	68 https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmymwx/machine-learning-ascii-art-neural…
	69 .FE
	70 .FS
	71 https://github.com/OsciiArt/DeepAA
	72 .FE
	73 .
	74 .PP
	75 Is it so futile? Not so sure.
	76 After all, representing anything with a computer is a matter of making a…
	77 The pixels, the square elements praised for providing a grid to throw da…
	78 For instance, sub-pixel geometry uses the same techniques as those prese…
	79 It is, for ASCII art like for anything else, a matter of representing so…
	80 .
	81 .PP
	82 ASCII art has the ability to fit an image somewhere where there could on…
	83 For the example of a train station concourse with a large split-flap dis…
	84 for displaying a big arrow at the end of the service,
	85 replacing the display by an equally large color screen can be costly and…
	86 while an ASCII arrow on that existing display would be consuming no powe…