A tool to create the highest possible quality of an ASCII-Art rendering of a monochrome logo such as the Slowroll logo.

For this, we collect images of all available characters (from 32 to 127) and check which one matches best.

Sample output

$ GAMMA=-0.15 SIZE=413 ./renderlogo.pl | tee Slowroll-logo.txt
               ,.yyyyyy,_
          ,gMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMgy
       jgMMM~             ~9MM@g
     j@M@~                    9MMg
    gM@                         ~MMg
  jMMF         _jgggggy,          @Mk
  MMF        gMMM@~~~MMMMg,        @Mk
 gMF       jMMP         "@Mg        MML
jMM       jMM             VMg       ]M&
jMB       #MF              MM       jMM
]M&       MML              MML      jMM
]MM       `MM,            jMM       jM@
 MMk       `@M@gy.        @MF       MMF
 `MMg         ~MMM       @MF       jMV
  ]MMMg                gMM"       gM@
   `MMMMgy_        ,yMMM~       j@MP
     MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMP~       jgMM`
       9MMgy~~~~~~         ,gMMM~
         ~MMMMMgyyy,,yyggMMMM~
             ~~~MMMMMMMP~~


$ GAMMA=-0.25 SIZE=210 ./renderlogo.pl
     ,ymmmmmy,
  ,mP~       ~*m_
 jP     _,_     \g
jF    mP~~~~m    ]k
M    M       M    M
M    &       #L   M
@L   `Mmp   j@    @
 @g,      ,dP   ,@
  ~M@MmmMP~   ,mP
    ~*@myygm#P~