X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5d960403a8979cc8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-19 11:07:50 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!enews.sgi.com!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!130.230.10.15.MISMATCH!news.cc.tut.fi!uutiset.saunalahti.fi!not-for-mail From: Ilmari Karonen Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Has anybody seen an ASCII art like this? Date: 19 Feb 2001 19:07:46 GMT Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <982609332.10238@itz.pp.sci.fi> References: <39aef916.18351012@news.easynews.com> <3A87AE9B.CEE7B51B@idiom.com> <96lfd8$5b5$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> <96rpub$sdh$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk> Reply-To: Ilmari Karonen NNTP-Posting-Host: simpukka.saunalahti.fi X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 982609666 27347 195.74.0.20 (19 Feb 2001 19:07:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Feb 2001 19:07:46 GMT User-Agent: postit.pl 0.05 Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4477 In article <96rpub$sdh$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, Martin Double wrote: >Ville Jouppi wrote in message >news:ka229tcvq479uo1dl8pni8il7tme9uptkr@4ax.com... >> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:15:16 -0000, "Martin Double" >> 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. > >Perhaps I shall continue with my own newly discovered form of art, and call >it Super-Ascii-Art. Oh, if you like to create such art, by all means do. It's not the same as ASCII art, but that doesn't mean it's any less worthy as an artform. They're two different things, like painting and photography. Just accept that it isn't what this newsgroup is about. -- Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ "The slushpile was, I gather, of record-breaking -- indeed, even floorboard- breaking -- proportions." -- Charlie Stross in rec.arts.sf.composition