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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Jul 2003.
Re: abstrASCII#2

Re: abstrASCII#2

Harry Mason schreef:

> m durnyss wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 05:00:44 +0200, Mic Barendsz <mi...@dataweb.nl> wrote:
>> 
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>>> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
>>> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
>>> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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> I feel as though I'm missing something fundamental here.

Why?

> What is this picture about?

About itself?

> I assume it is supposed to express something; in my case
> it expresses 'for(1..$j) { print " |" x $i, "\n"; }', but presumably this
> is not intentional.

If you want to see 'something' in it, that's okay, I guess.

>> All these abstrASCIIs work as stereograms. I feel I've entered a visual
>> Valhalla.

Wow

>> It's the same great art as in 2D, but with the even greaterness of 3D!
> 
> There is no depth information in this picture. Surely it's only a stereogram
> of itself! The same effect can be achieved by moving your head closer or
> further away from the screen.

I don't think so. But I am not an expert on stereograms. Staring or looking
x-eyed at the screen gives me a headache.


mic

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