Re: New twist on Re: SigZag

Veronica Karlsson wrote:

* Donovan wrote:

* Who says that the
* pics we come up with are the original.

> This may be true for some micro art but as the size and complexity
> increases it gets less likely.

* I mean, it's not like we have
* unlimited characters to work with, and ASCII art has been around since
* the first home computer!

> Longer, much longer.
> Text art in different forms has been around for several thousand years.
> http://alaike.lcc.hawaii.edu/sg/project_101/hiero.html

Very cool, thanks for that!!! My baggage on the time frame, I wasn't
trying to be accurate just making the point, but now I know. *S*

* My snail sig may have been done by someone else
* many years ago. Just because I did it from scratch doesn't mean
someone
* didn't make it exactly like that once before.

> No, and if you write a poem there's no guarantee that it has not
> already been written...

* My point is how can we be sure we are taking credit for an original
* ASCII pic, when there is no way to prove that it is the original to
* begin with. So one step deeper how can we copyright them if we can't
* prove that. The odds that someone did the Mona Lisa exactly the same,
* every brush stroke, is as close to impossible as you can get. But this
* pic...
*    __o
*  _`\<,_     --- Dave
* (*)/ (*)

> We can't really be sure, but I bet I'm the only person who has made this
> particular bike exactly like this:
>                                                       __
>                                                     .'  `.
>                                                    /      \
>                      o                            /        |
>                       8ooooooooo               __________  |
>                         ``8'                  /.-------. \ |
>                          |`                   ||      ` ` |<
>                           `|___________________\\      |||| )
>                           / _____________________\ ._._.'.'(
>                          / |                     \\ ``--'
>                         //|`                      \\
>                        //  `|                      \\
>                       //   |`                      . \
>          .d888888b.  //     `|                   .'.'\\  .d888888b.
>       o8Y'   .    `Y//      |`                  / /   \\Y'    .  .`Y8o
>     oY'   .  .   . //Y8o     `|               .'.'  dY'\\  .  .     .`Yo
>    dY  .     .    //   Yb    |`              / /   dY.  \\    .    .  .Yb
>   dY .  .  . .  .//   . Yb    `|           .'.'   dY   . \\ . . . .     Yb
>  oY.   . .   .  //  .    Yb   |`          / /    oY .    .\\  .  . .   . Yo
> o8    .   .  . // .    .  8b   `| =.=   .'.'    o8     .   \\ . .   .     8o
> 8Y  .    . . .//__________Y8___|`_____ / /      8P  .     . \\.. .     .  Y8
> 8............@/__ ........ 8   .'.  ..`.'       8............\@)...........8
> 8    .   . (`-.__`--.__   d8  /. . |..  \       8     .  .  . . . .     .  8
> 8b    .    .(@   `--.__`--.__|....  .... |      8b.    .   .  .  .   .    d8
> Y8 .    . .  `-._      `--.__|..   @     |      Y8   .  . . . . . . .  .  8Y
>  Yb   .  .   .  .`-._   dP   |.... |.    |       Yb.     .    .    .     dP
>   Yb.   .  . . . .   `-dP     \  . |... /         Yb .  .  .  .  .  .  .dP
>    Yo. .     .    .  .oP `--.__`.__|__.'           Yo. .      .      ..oP
>     `8o.  .  .  .  .o8'            |                `8o.  .   .   . .o8'
>       `Y88booood888P'             =.=                 `Y88boooood888P'
>           """"""                                          """""""

> Would this diddle mean enough difference to declare it to be a totally
> different picture? Where do you draw the line?

That's my point, there is no way it can be drawn. There really isn't
anything anyone can do about it.

Donovan

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