X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b257da76e202500c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Zeus Simeoni Subject: Does size make a difference? Date: 1997/10/29 Message-ID: <34580851.6AF6@umit.maine.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 285900803 Organization: University of Maine Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Ok, most of us have been told most of our lives that size does not make a difference. Then when we aged, we learned that we have been lied to our whole lives. The fact is, size makes a huge difference. Now, relating my little rant here to the topic of ascii art, I was just wondering how everyone seems to like to see stuff. Personally, before I started making my own, I copied some other peoples, and if it did not take up a fairly sizable amount, I felt there was just no reason to bother copy it. Then again, if I saw anything that took up too much room, I would not bother copy it either. Stuff like Row's seemed to be consistantly in the right range. Basically, little left to the imagination, and never more than a 80X20 screen in size. So that is how I started doing mine, and so far, I like it. Someone mentioned here earilier, shakara or however you correctly spell the name, that they liked smaller stuff, but personally, it took me almost two weeks to figure out what llizard's sig was! (and I still don't get any of the one-line lizards I saw last week) There is some really great small stuff, like joan's, but most of it seems almost indistinguishable from the rest to me. Not that I'm saying llizard does bad work, because he has some very nice art as well, I am just saying that alot of small stuff leaves me blank, which is hard to do. And like I said, I agree that anything more than an 80X20 screen I don't even bother look at anymore. 99% of it is just made from scanning something into a computer and I don't consider that art. The rare original stuff of that size is still just too big to look at. Anyway, just wondering what other's opinions are? (obviously, the perfect way would be to be good at both, as joan has many small things, and does large things on occasion, such as her cock-a-too on her index web page) Just wondering what people seem to prefer. -- http://www.geocities.com/athens/parthenon/9573 ______ ____ _ _ ____ /```````/_____ _________ (__ / | __| | | | | / ___\ /______ /______\ __,--^` / /_ | _| | |_| | |___ \ ` /____ ___\ /_____) |____| \_____/ \____/ /_..-----`