X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8b903bf612d67bd6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: spam_block@mymail.com Subject: Re: how do u do ....? Date: 1997/02/06 Message-ID: <32fb47f4.9907844@nntp.netcruiser>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 214764563 references: content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Netcom Canada x-netcom-date: Wed Feb 05 10:54:35 PM EST 1997 mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: spam_block@mymail.com newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 18:14:23 +0000, Briggs C A wrote: >amaze me that one can create excellent pictures using a fixed width font >and some clever thinking. > >Here's my question - do ASCII artists type all the pictures or do they >create them from software, converting from a b/w image or something? I Both. I am most emphatically *not* one of the artists, but not speaking up has never been one of my least non-virtuous traits (let me know when you're done with that). When you see the stuff that Joan, or Veronica, or Dave or Shimrod or so many others do from scratch, you are seeing real talent and art. There are generated pictures too, made by using software to translate say a GIF, into ascii characters, and while they can be interesting, for my money they are really no different than photocopying a picture of the Mona Lisa. The real artist is Canon or Xerox, and not the person feeding the paper into the machine. The same with the software. The real artist is the software programmer who created such a program, and not the person typing 'gif2asc monalisa'. Alan My real address is alanp @ netcom.ca (without spaces) but I'm sick of email spam.