X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,152eba12776551ad X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-15 08:01:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "lastfuture (Peter Marquardt)" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: New Ascii Movies + open source viewer Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:00:09 +0200 Organization: T-Online Lines: 40 Message-ID: <=RcqO=dtKWtJ=VMktHgU1l2WvfDp@4ax.com> References: <3B279586.E9CD58FD@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <9gcg03.3vvpf45.1@MK.kasperhausen.de> <3b29faee.1626460@news.ntlworld.com> <3b29fbff.1899787@news.ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 992617199 02 2928 jf1YSwtS7Agkp 010615 14:59:59 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520084321266-0001@t-dialin.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6179 On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:14:57 GMT, stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) wrote: >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" yeah that's the one.. but "shooting with cannons on sparrows" is the german one meant in this ascii animation because both the jave author and afaik the artist are german i wouldn't even know how to pronounce "tschilp" in english ;) sounds quite funny the way i would say it -- \/ ,-------------------------. (oO) | we will infect you too! | vv __/`-------------------------' JL