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THIS MACHINE KILLS ASCIIS
tmka |is| the 3rd part of KUNST-WERK-ZEUG the practical part of it
The first and the second part KUNST-WERK
tries to make images and words readable in different languages,
tries to call the power of images into question, images as images, as ideas
tries to make visible the connection between a piece of art, the KUNST-WERK
and the tools for making it, the WERK-ZEUG, the process.
tmka is the third part, is the ZEUG
tmka transforms Words into Images and Images into Words.
DEPENDENCIES
if you are running on UBU-ROI.iso, then everything is configured and installed
and you can start directly
if you downloaded tmka from http://pastebin.com/u/no-parts
then you have to preinstall the following dependencies:
an - Anagram generator → download the tarball: http://fatphil.org/words/an.html
(if you run on Ubuntu or Debian, you can install it with apt-get:
$ sudo apt-get install an)
normally the following tools are already installed on your Linux,
if not you can easilly install it with your package-manager (apt-get f.ex.)
ImageMagick - software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert images
hd - ASCII, decimal, hexadecimal, octal dump
cut - remove sections from each line of files
sed - stream editor for filtering and transforming text
xxd - make a hexdump or do the reverse.
pv - monitor the progress of data through a pipe
poppler-utils - for using the command pdftotext
libnotify-bin - for using the command notify-send
or just copy the following line, paste it into your Terminal, and see what happens ^_*:
sudo apt-get install an hd pv xxd libnotify-bin poppler-utils imagemagick
BASIC USAGE
1. Save the script tmka.sh in your homefolder as tmka.sh
2. Open a Terminal-Window
1. Make the file executable: type $ chmod +x tmka.sh
2. Run tmka.sh in a terminal window: type $ ./tmka.sh
3. Drop a Textfile or an Imagefile from your Harddisk into the
terminal window, running tmka and press Enter
Running UBU-ROI.iso:
open a Terminal, type > tmka < and press [ENTER]
or
go to: Anwendungen > Multimedia > tmka
tmka is able to transform this Formats >> *.pdf *.txt *.jpg *.gif *.png *.tif *.bmp
NOTES
tmka is tested only on Ubuntu >> Lucid Lynx - Oneiric
the script tmka.sh have only the main-functions.
for using tmka with all features, you have to download the UBU-ROI.iso
under: http://noparts.wordpress.com/downloads/
LICENSE
Copyright (c) 13.06.2011 Christian Heck
Copyleft (ɔ) this work of art is free,
you can redistribute it and/or modify it according to terms of the Free Art license.
You will find a specimen of this license
on the site Copyleft Attitude http://artlibre.org as well as on other sites.
You are free to copy the work
You can distribute the work (share it)
You are free to modify the work and distribute your new version
You can incorporate the work into a larger work of your own
You can make money based on the work
You can do all these things automatically, without asking permission,
and without paying me for the privilege.
In order to take advantage of these freedoms, however, you must satisfy a few requirements.
1) When you share the work, or a modification of it,
you must include the Free Art License 1.3
or a clear link to the license with the work.
2) If you modify the work,
your new version must also be licensed under the Free Art License 1.3.
This is the “share-alike” concept.
You are free to change and make additions to my work,
as long as the new work is also free for everyone to share and use.
3) If you distribute modified versions,
you must make it clear that the new version is a modification.
SEE ALSO
http://noparts.org/tmka-ex to see some examples, made by tmka