Hi Atle

Really nice pictures. Up to your posting I thought my ASCII's would be 
large. ;-)
If you want to create smaller files it is sometimes helpful to resize the
image and index the colors before you use the conversion tool. The result is
a 'gray scaled' picture which might look similar to this: 

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For more details you could create a 'line art' picture :

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My favorites are pictures which mix both systems :

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See you.
MARC