Craig's Utility Library v1.5 – Sometimes we just need that Image to ASCII art converter (and all those other cool things in Craig’s grab-bag o’ code)

Craig's Utility Library - Craig's Utility Library Code 1.5

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Released: Jul 29 2009

Updated: Jul 29 2009 by JaCraig

Dev status: Stable

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Downloads & Files

Utilities1_5.zip, source code, 3104K, uploaded Wed

Release Notes

This release contains the following added functionality:

• Javascript minification
• Image related classes:
  • Converter from an image to ASCII art
  • Ability to draw rounded rectangles
  • Take the negative of an image

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CodePlex - Craig's Utility Library

“Project Description
Craig's Utility Library (or CUL, as in cull because I'm not that creative), was initially designed through a number of projects that I've worked on. Over time I assembled a number of classes to handle various tasks and continue to add a number of items in my spare time including the following:

• Encryption
  • AES
  • Caesar
  • DES
  • RSA
  • TripleDES
  • Vernam
• Hashing
  • MD5
  • SHA1
• Compression
  • Deflate
  • GZip
• Serialization (XML, SOAP, and binary)
• File management (including FTP and HTTP)
• Email
  • Pop3 client (SSL capable)
  • MIME parser
  • SMTP email sending (SSL capable)
  • Exchange inbox email retrieval
• HTML related functions
• Javascript related functions (including minification)
• CSS related functions (including minification)
• Image manipulation
  • Cropping, resizing, rotating, flipping
  • To black and white or sepia tone
  • Threshold and edge detection
  • Text drawing, watermarks, object drawing helpers
  • Taking a screenshot which spans monitors
  • RGB Histograms
  • Various convolution filters such as sharpen, sobel emboss, etc. along with the ability to create your own easily.
  • Various other filters such as "jitter", pixelate, sin wave, median filter, and dilation, red/green/blue filters,
  • Multiple blurring techniques including box blur, Gaussian blur, Kuwahara, and Symmetric Nearest Neighbor blur
  • Bump map and Normal map helpers
  • ASCII art generator
  • Adjust brightness, gamma, and contrast
• Active Directory querying
  • Includes functions for active users, all users, all groups, active members in groups, etc.
• Exchange querying
  • Free/Busy data
  • Get next/previous available time for appointments
  • Get contacts
  • Get appointments/events
  • Get emails
  • Get the GAL
• SQL query helper
• File formats/Microformats
  • XMDP
  • RSS (with iTunes/Zune information embedded for podcasts)
  • vCard/hCard
  • vCalendar/hCalendar
  • iCalendar (with email sending capabilities, cancellation, and automatically putting it in Exchange)
  • APML
  • OPML
  • FOAF
  • XFN
  • CSV
  • RSD
  • BlogML
• Code to render a web page to BMP file
• WebBrowser control cache clearing class
• Reflection helper
• Randomization
  • Including string randomization based on allowable characters, date randomization, and Lorem Ipsum generation.
• Environment information
• Process management
• Error/Information gathering
• Track back and ping back helper classes
• Math related classes
  • Matrix
  • Vector
• And some basic data conversion

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Craig’s taken his grab-bag of utility functions and shared it with the world. This is a code distribution, so only grab it if you’re into code (and who isn’t?  lol).

You’ve got to love the scope of all this… There’s got to be a bit of code here for about everyone. The license is very loose and open as well making it easy for us to stand on a giant’s shoulder’s (i.e. to leverage Craig’s cool work).