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From: me90drj@brunel.ac.uk (DR J)
Subject: Re: TALK:  How To Draw Ascii Art.
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Someone with a funny way of spelling Rowan Crawford
(dljar1@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
:                    ..ASCII GRAPHICAL TECHNIQUES V1.0..
:                            By  Rowan Crawford.

:         All text and art copyright (c) 1994 Sumaleth Productions.
: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Aha! An instruction manual! And there's me thinking it was just talent! ;-)
Have to admit I'm glad you're giving away some of your trade secrets, might
allow the rest of us to match your pictures! 


:                 YHHHHHHHHHHHP
:                  "^YUHHHUP^"
:                      "~"

This bit of the sphere highlights the differences between terminal types.
I'm using Windows Terminal on a PC, displaying the text using the Terminal
font. If I type "~^ and then zoom in on it, I see:

                               MM
                              MMMM
             MM  MM  MMM   M MM  MM
             MM  MM MM MM MM
             MM  MM M   MMM


For me, the ^ is higher than both the " and the ~. It would be interesting
if people could mention what machines they were using and the font that they
were using. That way we could make allowances for the different look of the
characters. Just a thought.


:     Perhaps there's more to ascii art than
:     meets the eye?

Judging by some of the work I've seen here, I'd say there is!


                                                            DR J

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