This is a hack, a test of a process. It seems to have worked OK, so I'll probably do more of them. I took an image of Turing hacked it (scanned and cleaned up; image to text conversion via pbmtoascii, followed by substantial text transformations; manual conversion to postscript) and printed on a "service bureau" inkjet printer at 3 feet by 4 feet; blue-black letters on a faint yellowish background.

These pictures aren't very; I found it difficult to photo a framed image, hence the odd angles. (The moire pattern is local viewer artifact; it's not in the object-picture itself.)

There are not many photographs of Turing to begin with; I'm not very happy with the one I used.

Note that this is not "ASCII art", it's (1) the ITA2 character set (what most "teletypes" are capable of) and (2) it's not a character stream any longer, but a ink-on-paper rendering; artificial ASCII art. A fake, in other words. It's also low-brow typewriter art, and a high-brow version of teleprinter art.

Inkjet on glossy paper, 36"h x 48"w x 1"d, approx. 16 lb.