{"id":3943,"date":"2014-09-05T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:52:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:52:35","slug":"nypl-builds-book-covers-from-petscii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/09\/nypl-builds-book-covers-from-petscii\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPL Builds Book Covers from PETSCII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/text-mode.tumblr.com\/post\/96693644288\/new-york-public-library-is-experimenting-with\">GOTO80 tipped me off<\/a> that the NYPL is experimenting with using PETSCII (the character set used on the Commodore 64 and other Commodore computers) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/generative-ebook-covers\">to generate covers for e-books that don&#8217;t have them.<\/a> There is also a cover generator under development that uses illustrations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/generative-ebook-covers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pdLwuTZ.png\" width=\"542\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Generated covers (from the New York Public Library Labs)\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PETSCII generator is specificaly inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/10print.org\"><i>10 PRINT,<\/i><\/a> and of course, it leads leads me to ask &#8230; will they use this system to generate a cover for the e-book version of <i>10 PRINT?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOTO80 tipped me off that the NYPL is experimenting with using PETSCII (the character set used on the Commodore 64 and other Commodore computers) to generate covers for e-books that don&#8217;t have them. There is also a cover generator under development that uses illustrations. The PETSCII generator is specificaly inspired by 10 PRINT, and of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/09\/nypl-builds-book-covers-from-petscii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NYPL Builds Book Covers from PETSCII&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117,18,69,9],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-10-print","tag-books","tag-commodore-64","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}