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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Jul 1996.
Re: AM I cheating???????

Re: AM I cheating???????

In article <31D...@primenet.com>, _BuLLd0g_ aka ShAnK one1_
<bul...@primenet.com> writes
>i made this bulldog from taking a bmp i drew. then importing it into word for 
>windows
>changing the font to fixed width and started typing till it looked good...
>
>so, was it a good idea... is it common practice or is it just plain
>cheating.... i mean i DID draw the original.... here see...
>-- 
>                                    _       /��.   this one!
>                     keith         / \-----/ ,_ \ /
>                     -aKa-       .````   __  |�--'
>                    BULLDOG    ,/'./  .-""#.    \x
>                              _|,,|_.@@_/\       \x
>                             ,.@@@  .�_..,\.     .X|
>                            /  '  |  '   || \.  |/X|
>                           /\-----|-`  + ||   \ |XX|
>                          /``x��```-.    /|    \XXX|
>                         | `  _.==-- `--/      |XXX/
>                          `--'  ``-    |       /XX/
>                           \  \. .     \     ,/XX/
>                            `--'```-,__,\__,/XX�'
>
No, it's not cheating, it's a perfectly good way to do things.
Probably just doing that won't work very well for much smaller
than full page drawings: you have to consider carefully the
effect of the individual characters. There is a character in it
comes out as a black square -- I changed those to  (').
This still needs work: the eyes don't look right.


       @@@                                          @@@    
      @("}                                          {")@
     @(.(.)\__                                  __/(.).)@
    @@@) (    """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""    ) (@@@
      ( . )          dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk         ( . )
  \    )  /          http://www.demon.net/          \  (    /
  \\.-' ,'            castle/x/xemu.html             ', `-_// 
  // ~-~   """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   '~ \\
  /                                                         \
   "Consciousness is a product of the brain no more & no less
    than earwax is a product of the ear"-Martin Hunt on a.r.s 

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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: AM I cheating???????
Date: 1996/07/06
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