Text to Pixel Font!

Michael Hartmayer — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:19:10 +0000

So, this is a silly little proof of concept I came up with to kill 20 minutes in between projects. Takes regular text and turns it into 1px sized divs. That’s right, the div’s actually form the pixels of each letter! Awesome, right!? Check it out!

jsTexty Example

How’s it done? Easy:
* Get the text of an element
* Move through it, 1 character at a time
* Match the character with a pattern (currently only supports lowercase)
* Convert the pattern to markup
* Replace the text with excessive amounts of html

$(document).ready(function() {
    var jsTexty = {};
 
    jsTexty.Make = function(e) {
        var strLetterString = $(e).text();
        var strReplaceHtml = '';
 
        for(var i = 0; i<strLetterString.length; i++) {
            var strThisLetter = strLetterString.substr(i,1);
            var arrLetterCode = jsTexty.GetLetterCode(strThisLetter);
                strReplaceHtml += jsTexty.LetterCodeToHtml(arrLetterCode);
        }
 
        $(e).html(strReplaceHtml + '
');
    };
 
    jsTexty.LetterCodeToHtml = function(arrLetterCode) {
        var strReplaceHtml = '';
        for(var i = 0; i<arrLetterCode.length; i++) {
            var strThisRow = arrLetterCode[i];
            for(var j = 0; j<strThisRow; j++) {
                var strThisLetterBlock = strThisRow.substr(j,1);
                if(strThisLetterBlock==='1') {
                    strReplaceHtml += '
';
                }
                if(strThisLetterBlock==='0') {
                    strReplaceHtml += '
';
                }
            }
            strReplaceHtml+='
';
        }
        return strReplaceHtml + '
';
    }
 
    jsTexty.GetLetterCode = function(strSingleLetter) {
        switch(strSingleLetter) {
            case ' ':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '0000',
                '0000',
                '0000',
                '0000',
                '0000'
                ];
                break;
            case 'a':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '0110',
                '1001',
                '1111',
                '1001',
                '1001'
                ];
                break;
            case 'b':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1110',
                '1001',
                '1110',
                '1001',
                '1110'
                ];
                break;
            case 'c':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '0111',
                '1000',
                '1000',
                '1000',
                '0111'
                ];
                break;
            case 'd':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1110',
                '1001',
                '1001',
                '1001',
                '1110'
                ];
                break;
            case 'e':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1111',
                '1000',
                '1110',
                '1000',
                '1111'
                ];
                break;
            case 'f':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1111',
                '1000',
                '1110',
                '1000',
                '1000'
                ];
                break;
            case 'g':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '0111',
                '1000',
                '1011',
                '1001',
                '0111'
                ];
                break;
            case 'h':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1001',
                '1001',
                '1111',
                '1001',
                '1001'
                ];
                break;
            case 'i':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '111',
                '010',
                '010',
                '010',
                '111'
                ];
                break;
            case 'j':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '0001',
                '0001',
                '0001',
                '1001',
                '0110'
                ];
                break;
            case 'k':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1001',
                '1010',
                '1100',
                '1010',
                '1001'
                ];
                break;
            case 'l':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1000',
                '1000',
                '1000',
                '1000',
                '1111'
                ];
                break;
            case 'm':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '10001',
                '11011',
                '10101',
                '10001',
                '10001'
                ];
                break;
            case 'n':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '10001',
                '11001',
                '10101',
                '10011',
                '10001'
                ];
                break;
            case 'o':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '0110',
                '1001',
                '1001',
                '1001',
                '0110'
                ];
                break;
            case 'p':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1110',
                '1001',
                '1110',
                '1000',
                '1000'
                ];
                break;
            case 'q':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '0000',
                '0110',
                '1001',
                '0111',
                '0001'
                ];
                break;
            case 'r':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1110',
                '1001',
                '1110',
                '1001',
                '1001'
                ];
                break;
            case 's':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '0111',
                '1100',
                '0110',
                '0011',
                '1110'
                ];
                break;
            case 't':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '11111',
                '00100',
                '00100',
                '00100',
                '00100'
                ];
                break;
            case 'u':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1001',
                '1001',
                '1001',
                '1001',
                '0110'
                ];
                break;
            case 'v':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '10001',
                '10001',
                '01010',
                '01010',
                '00100'
                ];
                break;
            case 'w':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '10101',
                '10101',
                '10101',
                '10101',
                '01010'
                ];
                break;
            case 'x':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '10001',
                '01010',
                '00100',
                '01010',
                '10001'
                ];
                break;
            case 'y':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '10001',
                '01010',
                '00100',
                '00100',
                '00100'
                ];
                break;
            case 'z':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '1111',
                '0001',
                '0010',
                '0100',
                '1111'
                ];
                break;
            case '.':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '000',
                '000',
                '000',
                '110',
                '110'
                ];
                break;
            case ',':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '000',
                '000',
                '000',
                '110',
                '010'
                ];
                break;
            case '!':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '010',
                '010',
                '010',
                '000',
                '010'
                ];
                break;
            case '(':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '010',
                '100',
                '100',
                '100',
                '010'
                ];
                break;
            case ')':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '010',
                '001',
                '001',
                '001',
                '010'
                ];
                break;
            case '?':
                var arrLetterCode = [
                '01110',
                '00001',
                '00110',
                '00000',
                '00100'
                ];
                break;
        }
        if(!arrLetterCode) {
            var arrLetterCode = [
            '1111',
            '1111',
            '1111',
            '1111',
            '1111'
            ];						
        }
        return arrLetterCode;
    };
 
    // ACTIVATE
    $('#doit').click(function(){jsTexty.Make('#letterBox');});
});

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Michael Hartmayer — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:55:41 +0000

Just got my Dad’s CD put on YouTube. Nothing fancy~

He’s been singing and composing all his life and put out two CD’s. This is a small preview of his ‘Golden Classics’ Album. For more information about the CD, please get in touch with wolfhartmayer@gmail.com

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Michael Hartmayer — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:35:44 +0000

So, I was playin around with WinZIP and WinRAR today, trying to understand how those programs work. I mean- I know HOW they work, but I wanted to see which types of files compress the best, and which don’t. It came to no surprise that text documents are the easiest to pack up, since there is so much data redundancy. So, I had a little fun.

I created a 100MB text file filled entirely with whitespace. Then I RAR’d it, and then ZIP’d that. Amazingly enough, I was able to reduce a 100MB file to 222bytes. That’s even less than my minimum sector size (4kb) . Awesome.

Check it out!

Download:

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