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From: paul@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de (Paul Foerster)
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Subject: Re: LINE - Hilbert curves
Date: 14 Jun 1994 09:56:24 -0500
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In article <2t4vmq$dgh@gagme.wwa.com> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:

[...]

>Which, in my eyes, looks pretty good, I think better than your proposed:
>> __   ___   ___
>>  _| |_  |_|  _|
>> |  _  |  _  |_
>> |_| |_| | |___|
>>  _   _  |  ___ 
>> | |_| | |_|  _|
>> |_   _|  _  |_ 
>> __| |___| |___|

>The problem with limiting yourself to | and _ is that the _ hangs over the
>end of each corner, looking a bit sloppy.

... maybe, if you clipped the hang-overs it looks even clearer. Btw: I use 
MS-Windows to read news with the font FixedSys where the dot (.) is a littler 
wider but on the same height as the dot of the exclamation mark (!).



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