X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5d960403a8979cc8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-20 00:20:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!130.230.10.15.MISMATCH!news.cc.tut.fi!uutiset.saunalahti.fi!not-for-mail From: Ville Jouppi Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Has anybody seen an ASCII art like this? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:20:50 +0200 Organization: Arabuusimiehet Lines: 29 Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: simpukka.saunalahti.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 982657082 21990 195.74.0.20 (20 Feb 2001 08:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2001 08:18:02 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4487 On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:51:55 -0000, "Martin Double" wrote: >That seems to be a great shame to me, a bit like wanting to paint with both >hands missing? No no.. It's just more of a challenge if you have some limitations. >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! It seems you've been inspired to create something completely different. >Perhaps I shall continue with my own newly discovered form of art, and call >it Super-Ascii-Art. Maybe not Super-Ascii-Art, but something more along the lines of "Art with letters". CAD programs don't have anything to do with ASCII.. Once you put the letters into the picture, they're converted into vectors and beziers.. No longer ASCII. What you're reading now is ASCII, as all the characters are represented by a predefined byte. In your Cad program, you can't necessarily take a look at the hex dump of the file and expect to find anything meaningful or human-readable. Don't feel offended.. You've discovered something new while we're sticking to something old we've become to like.