X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,a9c9bb7ff2266762 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-02 12:30:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "��BaDStylE�� �" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ANSII [not ASCII] Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <3c334e0f$0$62888$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: host213-122-165-230.btinternet.com X-Trace: helle.btinternet.com 1010003355 22849 213.122.165.230 (2 Jan 2002 20:29:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@helle.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:29:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:13313 "CeeJay" wrote in message news:3c334e0f$0$62888$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk... | | > I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer. | | AFAIK you can't - But you can view HTML coloured ascii-art. | If I'm wrong please tell me how you view it. | Your right, I thought I could at the following url http://magneticm.ice.org/ansi/ice/ it seems the links open the original .ans through a cgi bin, which decodes the the script and shows them as .png files. good though :) | > How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it litterally | > raw-coding an image? | | It's just the text with ANSI colour escape codes. | Use a ANSI drawing program to colour the graphics - for drawing the artwork I | suggest JavE , but it can't colour the images because Markus (the programmer) | feels it makes it too easy to draw nice pictures and the art part therefore is | overlooked. | I disagree. the artist should have the option, I can see where he's comming from it takes the rawness away from the image and could leave a confused mess, but I still say let the artist decide and the public can take it from there - good or bad. ��B��