http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley/archive/2007/01/08/the-soapy-frog-does-ascii-art-in-powershell.aspxOf course the idea is the same as Unix's AALib , but what's so cool is how little code it takes to do this in PowerShell . The idea is simply "Load up an image in System.Drawing, work out the brightness of each range of pixels, and from thatenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)