ASCII Google Streetview

#1

Post by divy » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 8:14 PM UTC

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

#2

Post by csphy » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 8:50 PM UTC

How is it that this and GSVPano does not violate Google's term of service, since they pull images from Google's undocumented street view API? I have a related project, but am not sure if I can make it public because of this issue. Does Google simply not care?

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

#3

Post by Kartificial » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 8:55 PM UTC

This look pretty good, but is there any way to turn of the default scrolling behaviour? Kind of makes me nauseous.

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

#4

Post by dataangel » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:17 PM UTC

I see nothing.

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

#5

Post by mjn » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:22 PM UTC

csphy wrote: post #2

How is it that this and GSVPano does not violate Google's term of service, since they pull images from Google's undocumented street view API? I have a related project, but am not sure if I can make it public because of this issue. Does Google simply not care?

They seem inconsistent in enforcing it. One piece of software that accessed it got a complaint from Google: http://igargoyle.com/streetview/

I was working on a similar project a while back, to view Street View through various filters (B&W high-contrast, pseudo-cyanotype, etc.), but I did it by pulling a few hundred images and caching them, to avoid hitting it in real-time, which I thought might be a problem. Given that I see several of these not being taken down, though, maybe I was too cautious.

Fwiw, Cyano-View Copenhagen was my project (hit "[reload]" at the top/right for a new random view, or scroll down for concept blurb):

http://www.kmjn.org/projects/cyanocph/

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

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Post by yefim323 » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:26 PM UTC

dataangel wrote: post #4

I see nothing.

Do you have WebGL enabled?

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

#7

Post by chimmy » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:27 PM UTC

it hurts my eye.

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

#8

Post by halis » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:28 PM UTC

Looked pretty cool but it slowed down my work computer so bad that it practically crashed it.

And this box is an i7 with 10GB of memory...

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

#9

Post by alex_h » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:29 PM UTC

What is your algorithm for shading here? It seems like brightness is partially provided by the density of the characters (eg, '8' vs '.', as in normal ascii art), but also partially by the color of the characters.

Re: ASCII Google Streetview

#10

Post by Lambdanaut » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:32 PM UTC

If you keep zooming in eventually the perspective flips. As you keep zooming in more the perspective gets warped and it creates a bizarre fish-eye effect. I had about as much fun playing around with perspective warping as I did the finding things to look at in ASCII.

It's a pretty cool toy!