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From: thors@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Olafur Thorsteinsson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.graphics
Subject: Shrinking pictures
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Date: 19 Feb 89 21:08:45 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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I have a need to display a picture on an ASCII terminal.  I have that
picture in some bitmapped format and need to reduce it considerably since
that picture is aimed at a graphics oriented terminal.  Is there an easy
way to accomplish this.  Can I blindly extract say every tenth pixel or do
I need to analyze that pixel's environment?  Where can I find algorithms
to do this efficiently?

Please respond to thors@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu.

Many thanks for your help,
				 'Olafur