X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,152eba12776551ad X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-15 05:20:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: New Ascii Movies + open source viewer Message-ID: <3b29fbff.1899787@news.ntlworld.com> References: <3B279586.E9CD58FD@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <9gcg03.3vvpf45.1@MK.kasperhausen.de> <3b29faee.1626460@news.ntlworld.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 30 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:14:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.86.146 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 992607291 62.253.86.146 (Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:14:51 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:14:51 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6166 On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:09:49 GMT, stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) enlightened us with: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:14:25 +0200, Marion Koslowski > enlightened us with: > > > Markus Gebhard - Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:32:06 +0200 > > > > >The idea for this project came from Andreas Freise. He wanted to show > > >others how Ascii artist draw Ascii art images. The first movie showing > > >the creation of "tshilp" is online now and can be viewed at: > > > > > > http://www.jave.de/player/demo1.html > > > > > >Have a look at it - it is fascinating. > > > > You are right! This is great! > > (Is there an english sentence like "Shooting with canons on sparrows"? I > > thought it's a german phrase...) > > Closest I can think of is "Kill two birds with one stone" but I guess they have > different meanings Or possibly, if the original phrase means to use something far more powerful than you need for the task you're doing, "to crack a nut with a sledgehammer" -- o |\ _[] L_ === Stuart Moore []\, stm