Panopticum Digitalizer - it is an additional module for Adobe Photoshop 5.x/6.0.

Digitalizer allows to get a very interesting effect. Your image can be represented by a matrix, elements of which will form a shape of the initial image. Elements of the image can be figures, letters or any other symbols. You can edit sets of symbols in a special editor. You can also use predefined character sets by loading them from a file. By setting up parameters of the plugin you can change the quality of picture display and its expressiveness. By combining this filter with others and by using multy-layered compositions you can get perfect computer art products.