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From: Markus Gebhard <ukgh@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Subject: Re: New Version released - TONS of suggestions
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:46:03 +0200
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LGB wrote:
> 
> > For horizontal lines there are at least 4 levels of height you can use:
> > __ .. -- ''/""
> 
> have you thought this of it this way in the line below there is eight levels of hieght
>  _   .   -   '
>  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

??? I can still see only 4 characters? Well, for lines with low angles
of gradient I dublicate those characters:
___________..........----------'''''''''''

>  __  ..  --  ''
>  1234567890123456
>           1     1

I still don't get the point? Do you want to use broken/dotted lines?

> > Anybody out there with other ideas or experiences about algorithms for
> > ellipses?
> 
> A carpenters trick comes to mind quartered or folded out much like the paper doll string
> Surprise it even shows it on the web
> 
>         . - .
>       .   ^   .
>      `    |    `
>     .     |     .
>     '     C---> '
>     '           '
>      '         '
>       `.     .`
>         ` - `
>          _ _
>      . `  ^  ` .
>   .`      |      `.
>  /        |        \
> |         C--->     |
>  \                 /
>   `.             .`
>      ` . _ _ . `
> 
> http://www2.fwi.com/~krumy/elipse/elipse.htm

Ok, but the problem here is not to find algorithms for elipses in
general, but to find out how to use them when all you have is Ascii
characters. :-(

> Tried to show 4 levels of depth not a 3D image
> from jave`s icon which i found interesting
> 
>     _____________________
>   / .-------------------. \
>   ||\      ______      / ||
>  //  `.   '------'   .`   \\
>  ||    \   .---..   /     ||
>   \\ '' `-(_.-. `\-` ''  //
>   || ''    .--' |'   ''  ||
>  //  ''   : ,-. |'   ''   \\
>  ||  ''   : `-' |'   ''   ||
>   \\ '' .-`.__:_,`-. ''  //
>   ||   /   ______   \   ||
>  //  .'   '------'   `.  \\
>  || /__________________\ ||
>   \.--------------------./jave
> 
> experimented with jave both top an bottom (like it) :)
> 
> and again more to the original
> 
>      \     ______     /
>       `.  '------'  .'
>         \  .---..  /
>       ''  (_.-. `\  ''
>       ''   .--' |'  ''
>       ''  : ,-. |'  ''
>       ''  : `-' |'  ''
>       ''  `.__:_,`  ''
>         /  ______  \
>       .'  '------'  `.
>      /                \jave
> 
> --lgbeard

Wow, that's great - thanks :-) May I add it to Jave's clipart library?

Markus