X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9139c27fda44ed1e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-11 07:35:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: ls@gate99.nl (Lennert Stock) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: [DIS]hyper-space ascii-stereograms Date: 11 Nov 2002 07:35:12 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.177.158.237 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1037028913 31122 127.0.0.1 (11 Nov 2002 15:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Nov 2002 15:35:13 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:20539 Faux_Pseudo wrote in message news:... > > > > > > Well some things don't work as well in 2D[0]. > But to give you an idea I shall try any way in txt because I am too > drunk (and I have a feelin that even if I were sobar) that I can not > render it properly in 2D, so here goes: imagin one of those rulers > that look like this: > > /^\ > ) ( (can you guess which ascii art is not going to make > //^\\ it to the web page?) > ' ' > > And so if you rotate it there is always the mesurment behind the one > in front of you that is always slightly distant. Well the 3D > stereogram that I posted from 1996[1] displays the same concept but > instead of one "level" being more distant you are dealing with 4 > levels being more distant than the first and each being more distant > then the one prior to it. A 3D slide rule on acid if you will. Very > cool in its effect. Total props to the original illustrator for this > truly remarkable 3d stereo gram that defies first empressions. When > you first look at it you are expecting something along the lines of a > sunrise but it takes you by suprise and gives you this totaly[2] > unexpected 3D ruller. Very inspiring that an ascii art can be viewed > two ways (one sterio gram and one non) and be cool on two different > levels (one for those who have two eyes as well as those who only have > one) and still be cool. > > > > > I'm so cool, hah! (I'm sooo late) Btw, 7 levels on top of the first, not 4 ;)