Statico emailed me a few days ago with an interesting visualization. He tried to use Image::ANSI to accomplish the same thing, but he had some issues with the width of the document (400 columns).
With some fiddling I was able to remove the width restrictions and make the ans2png scripts that comes with the distribution allow for custom fonts and data from STDIN.
Today he tells me: "FYI, Image::ANSI output is on display on the giant touch screen here at IBM Research." I guess that makes it officially useful now. =)
