Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Custom-Made ASCII Carpet


Image source: Gizmodo


Very clever & cool, but also quite expensive.

Via Gizmodo.

This project, named carpet/?s, allows personalized ascii carpet to be purchased. All that is needed is a single click and the program will generate a unique ascii output.

It is based on the time when the surfer goes to a web site. The time in a form of hh:mm:ss is then used as a keyword for the results taken from a search engine. The program downloads the contents of a second given result, rejects html tags and white spaces and puts all textual content into a carpet-like form.

Better start saving, these carpets will cost a pretty penny. A finished, 6.5 by 8 foot carpet is going to cost upwards of $2,500 shipped within Europe.

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