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"Andy C Yu" <yuandy@cs.stanford.edu> wrote in message
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>
> > http://members.aol.com/kamuiyoo/index.htm
> [snip kimono in japanese chars]
>
> If you go to the website, you can see a gif of what the picture was
> supposed to be. It's actually quite pretty. Problem is, it's rendered with
> japanese characters. Here's my attempt to replicate it using only ascii
> characters:
>
Yes. They are wonderful pictures. Found this link page that takes one all over the place click an guess for some treats.
http://www16.big.or.jp/~nansya/ASCII-art/link.html

>      ,-"-.
>    *Y """-e
>     ()|/)|)
>      )a a 3
>      ( - /
>      .) (.
>    ./ \V/ /\.
>   /  \ Y /   \.
>  / /\_\(/__/\  \
>  |\ |      |   / D
>  |_( D=oo==|  //
> /   /======)  Y
> |   ||     |  |
> |   ||     |  |
> |  *||     |@ |
> | * ||    @| *|
> | * ||   @ | *|
> |  /|| .:*@|\/
>     ||_____|
>       C C X
>
> The hands are formed with hiragana tsu's but, I couldn't find an ascii
> equivalent, so I just use 'D's.
>
> The bangs are formed with hiragana no's and katakana ha's which I could
> only approximate with slashes and parentheses.
>
> The middle of the sash had an infinity symbol and the hair piece had a
> couple gamma's in there. So, I replaced the infinity with 'oo' and just
> redid the hair.
>
> I couldn't figure out what the artist was doing with the sandals at all.
> Two hiragana to's and one katakana me. Best approximated with 'C' and 'X'.
>
 just a thought the character set seems to be very smooth an it stills gives the filling of aninme on some of the
drawings both small an large
>
>
> Diddle away =)
> andy
>
--lgbeard