Looking for ascii art wizards

Question

I'd like to humbly request someone with the skills or someone who knows the right tools, to take the two images in the upper left (the "arch" and the archlinux word) and convert them to ascii art.
Now, I do not mean a simple "convert logo.png logo.xpm", that'd be too easy.  I'm looking for:
a) terminal escapes for colors
b) sized to fit on a 80x30 screen or so.
This implies that it should be in a text file, and, on a color terminal, if I "cat archlogo", it should look as intended.
That makes the "arch" a bit wonky, but still doable... here's an example:
If anyone can do this, I'd be in your debt forever. Also, if you know any tools to use to do something like this, let me know as well.

Answer 1

I like to have an Arch logo entry visible with each terminal session so I use a script in /etc/rc.d that is run at desktop login and thereafter as a cronjob (to increment the uptime variable) which outputs to the text file /etc/issue. This is then read by my ~/.bashrc via the simple entry below. I then add a few more things to .bashrc to provide further output but the ascii logo and system info gets it started.
# Import Issue
echo
cat /etc/issue
echo
This is the /etc/rc.d script:
#! /bin/bash
LGRAY="33[1;6m33[1;37m"
WHITE="33[1;6m33[1;37m"
LBLUE="[1;36m"
DBLUE="[0;36m"
DGREY="[1;30m"
UPTIME=`uptime | awk '{for ( i = 3; i <= NF-7; i++ ) if ( i != NF-7 )
print $i; else print substr($i,1,length($i)-1);}'`
rm -f /etc/issue
/usr/bin/clear >> /etc/issue
echo -e $WHITE' oooo '$LGRAY'Hostname: '$(hostname) >> /etc/issue
echo -e $WHITE' oOOOOOOOOo '$LGRAY'Kernel: '$(uname -r) >> /etc/issue
echo -e $WHITE' oOOOOOOOOOOOOo '$LGRAY'Uptime: '$UPTIME >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo '$WHITE'Arch Linux 0.7.2 (Gimmick) ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $DBLUE' OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'$DGREY' OOOo ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $DBLUE' OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO '$DGREY'OOOOo ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $DBLUE' OOOOOOOOO OOOOOO '$DGREY'OOOOOO ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $DBLUE' OOOOOOOO OOOOO '$DGREY'OOOOOO ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' oOOOOOOO OOOO '$DGREY'OOOOOO ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' OOOOOOO OO'$DGREY'OOOOOO ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' oOOOOOO '$DGREY'ooOOOOOO ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' OOOOOO '$DGREY'ooOOOOOOO' $LBLUE'OOO ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' OOOOOO '$DGREY'oooOOOOOO '$LBLUE'OO ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' OOOOO '$DGREY'oooOOOOO '$LBLUE'O ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' OO '$LBLUE'O ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LBLUE' ' >> /etc/issue
echo -e $LGRAY"n$(date)" >> /etc/issue
cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net