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From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H
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Subject: Re: Short .sig art
Date: 10 Jun 1994 13:45:47 -0500
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>From article <2ta86b$fuf@gagme.wwa.com>,
by jct@se33.wg2.waii.com (Jim Thompson):
> 
> I have an interest in ascii art that's small enough to fit in a 4-line
> signature (4 being the .signature size limit than some sites enforce).
> 
> In particular I'm interested in geographic representations, such as
> the outline of Australia that *everyone* from down under seems to use.

Well, Colorado and Wyoming are easy:
	____
       |    |
       |____|

But how do you tell them apart?  Furthermore, within the resolution of
ASCII, they look alot like North Dakota.  How about a small Tennessee:

       _-------,
      /______/

Kansas?  Try this, complete with Topeka and Wichita pointed out:
      ________
     |       .\
     |     .  |
     |________|

Utah is pretty easy in 5 lines, with a splat for Salt Lake City:
         __
        |  |_ 
        | *  |
        |    |
        |____|

And Nevada isn't too hard, with Reno singled out and a dot near Lost Wages,
except that it's five lines high (a technicality):
         ___
        |   |
        |*  |
         \ .|
          \|

Oklahoma?  Well, in five lines and too square, but Oklohoma City and Tulsa
fit in:
      ____________ 
      ----      . |
          |   *   |
           -_-_ _ |
               - -_


Having done that, it's time to make a try at Iowa, with Iowa City singled
out for fame.  Again, I didn't get it into 4 lines, sorry.
      _________
      )        (
      \       . )
       )       (
       `------\/

Enough sillyness!
				Doug Jones
				jones@cs.uiowa.edu