[Ssc-dev] The ASCII InformaCam

[Nathan of Guardian]

http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/

After the shutter button is pressed, the photo is sent to Mechanical
Turk for processing and the camera waits for the results. A yellow LED
indicates that the results are still "developing" in a nod to film-based
photo technology. With a HIT price of $1.25, results are returned
typically within 6 minutes and sometimes as fast as 3 minutes. The
thermal printer outputs the resulting text in the style of a polaroid
print. Below are a few samples from the Descriptive Camera:

This is a faded picture of a dilapidated building. It seems to be run
down and in the need of repirs.


	-----------------------------------
	| |                             | |
	| |                             | |
	| |   This is a faded picture   | |
	| |      of a dilapidated       | |
	| |  building. It seems to be   | |
	| | run down and in the need of | |
	| |           repirs.           | |
	| |                             | |
	| |                             | |
	| ------------------------------- |
	|                                 |
	|                                 |
	-----------------------------------

Looks like a cupboard which is ugly and old having name plates on it
with a study lamp attached to it.






	-----------------------------------
	| |                             | |
	| |                             | |
	| |    Looks like a cupboard    | |
	| |    which is ugly and old    | |
	| |  having name plates on it   | |
	| |      with a study lamp      | |
	| |       attached to it.       | |
	| |                             | |
	| |                             | |
	| ------------------------------- |
	|                                 |
	|                                 |
	-----------------------------------

Corner of a wood floored room with a tool chest, bike, stack of books,
box leaning against the wall, an open door with a bag hanging off the
doorknob, and a pair of closed double doors with cables hanging on the
handles.




	-----------------------------------
	| |  Corner of a wood floored   | |
	| |   room with a tool chest,   | |
	| |  bike, stack of books, box  | |
	| |  leaning against the wall,  | |
	| |   an open door with a bag   | |
	| |  hanging off the doorknob,  | |
	| |     and a pair of closed    | |
	| |  double doors with cables   | |
	| |   hanging on the handles.   | |
	| ------------------------------- |
	|                                 |
	|                                 |
	-----------------------------------


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