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From: "Martin Double" <martin@mgdouble.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Has anybody seen an ASCII art like this?
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:51:55 -0000
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That seems to be a great shame to me, a bit like wanting to paint with both
hands missing?

It is also a shame because I thought for a brief while that I had caught the
ASCII art bug, but now you tell me I have not!

Perhaps I shall continue with my own newly discovered form of art, and call
it Super-Ascii-Art.

Regards
Martin

Ville Jouppi <vjouppi@sci.fi> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:15:16 -0000, "Martin Double"
> <martin@mgdouble.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >If you really want to produce brilliant ASCI art why not use CAD? I am
not
> >an artist but I use CAD and it can give you any type of text, any size of
> >text, bold and italic text, English or foreign text, text of any colour,
and
> >at any spacing even overlaping, and text at any angle. All these features
> >and easily edited too!
>
> That's not what Ascii is about.. It's about everyone with a text terminal
> being able to see what you've created. That's why the character set is
> limited, and why we only use fixed width fonts.
>
> >Is this the real way forward for an ASCI Artist?
>
> I don't think so. Maybe for an artist who wants to venture towards Ascii
it
> might.