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From: Veronica Karlsson <e93-vkn@sm.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Line: "I love you" in sign language
Date: 1996/09/23
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Karl Clodfelter wrote:
> 
> This is a half-hearted and iffy attempt at transfering of resource code to
> ASCII with some program I got off of the net.  I didn't see any sign
> language hands doing much in ASCII art, so I had to make my own.  In ASL
> (American Sign Language) this stands for "I love you".  If anyone has a
> better ASCII of this, PLEASE mail me it.  But until then, this is what I
> have:
> 
>                            .__,
>          .__             ./ ^~(.,
>        ./ ^~,            ||   ~)|
>        ||   |            ||    ||
>        ||   |            ||    ||
>        ||   |            ||    ||
>        ||   |  .__,  .__ ||    ||
>        ||   (..)(^(./ ^~.)|    ||
>        ||   MW(^ ~)|   ~)|    ||        .__,
>        ||   ~)|    ||    ||    ||    .__.)~)|
>        ||    ||    ||    ||    ||   .)(^^~ ||
>        ||    ||    ||    ||    ||  .(^   .)|
>        ||    ||    ||    ||    |(..)     (^
>        ||    |(., .)(., .)|   .)(^^~     .|
>        ||    '~)(.^~~)(.(^   ^~      ..)
>        ||      '^~   '^~            ..)(^
>        ||                           .)(^
>        |(.,                        .(^
>        '~)|                      ..)
>          ||                    ..)(^
>          ||                    |(^
>          |(.                   ||
>          '~)                   ||
>            |                   ||
>            |                   '
>            '

Why not do the obvous and get rid of some of those extra lines and other
"pollution" (meant nicely) and add some details. Something like this:

                            __                                 
                           /  \
                          |    |
            _             |    |
          /' |            | _  |
         |   |            |    |                                
         | _ |            |    |                                
         |   |            |    |                                
         |   |        __  | _  |                                
         | _ |  __   /  \ |    |                                
         |   | /  \ |    ||    |                                
         |   ||    ||    ||    |       _---.                   
         |   ||    ||    |. __ |     ./     |                   
         | _. | -- || -- |    `|    /      //                   
         |'   |    ||    |     |   /`     (/                   
         |    |    ||    |     | ./       /                    
         |    |.--.||.--.|  __ |/       .|                     
         |  __|    ||    |-'            /                     
         |-'   \__/  \__/             .|                     
         |       _.-'                 /                      
         |   _.-'      /             |                       
         |            /             /                        
         |           |             /
         `           |            /
          \          |          /'                             
           |          `        /                               
            \                .'                                
            |                |                                
            |                |                               
            |                |         
            |                |


:)
Veronica
(  e93-vkn@sm.luth.se   http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn  )