Re: TALK - Let's start a Flag Project
>From: em...@m-net.arbornet.org (Evan M Corcoran) >Richard Kirk's superb UK flag got me thinking that we ought to start >a concerted effort to do national flags with a common palette and in >standard sizes, much like the Ascii Atlas. Well, if I recall correctly my very first post to alt.ascii-art was precisely the Canadian flag. Since it has been over four months now I guess it's OK to repost it: ------------------------------------------------------------------- XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX A XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW AWA WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX AA AWXWA AA XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW VWXWXWXWXWV WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX AA VWXWXWXWV AA XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW VWXWXWXA VWXWXWV AXWXWXWV WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW AXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXA WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX VXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXV XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW VXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXV WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX XWXWXWXWXWXWX XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW AXWXWXWXWXWXWXWXA WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX I XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW I WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX I XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW XWXWXWXWXWXWXWXW WXWXWXWXWXWXWXWX ------------------------------------------------------------------- Normand Veilleux I also fooled around with the characters and replaced them by a sequence of CANADA both horizontally and vertically which led to: DACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANAD ACANADACANADACAN NADACANADACANADA CANADACANADACANA A ADACANADACANADAC ANADACANADACANAD ADA DACANADACANADACA NADACANADACANADA AC ADACA DA ACANADACANADACAN ADACANADACANADAC ANADACANADA CANADACANADACANA DACANADACANADACA DA ADACANADA AD ANADACANADACANAD ACANADACANADACAN ANADACAN ACANADA NADACANA NADACANADACANADA CANADACANADACANA ADACANADACANADACANADACANA ADACANADACANADAC ANADACANADACANAD NADACANADACANADACANADACANADAC DACANADACANADACA NADACANADACANADA CANADACANADACANADACANAD ACANADACANADACAN ADACANADACANADAC DACANADACANADACAN CANADACANADACANA DACANADACANADACA ANADACANADACA ANADACANADACANAD ACANADACANADACAN CANADACANADACANAD NADACANADACANADA CANADACANADACANA A ADACANADACANADAC ANADACANADACANAD D DACANADACANADACA NADACANADACANADA A ACANADACANADACAN ADACANADACANADAC CANADACANADACANA DACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANADACANAD Normand Veilleux Quiz: Can anyone find out why the flag starts with "DACANA" instead of "CANADA"? (Hint: there is a CANADA somewhere in the flag that dictates where all the other CANADA's go. Which one is it?) -- Normand Veilleux As a "long term" contributing artist to nve...@emr1.emr.ca alt.ascii-art, I hereby declare that ---------------------------- rec.arts.ascii (MODERATED) has my support.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,7d269ac3e65c8da4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-16 18:36:48 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!emr1!nveilleu.cpcs.emr.ca!Nveilleu From: Nve...@emr1.emr.ca (Normand Veilleux) Subject: Re: TALK - Let's start a Flag Project Message-ID: <Nve...@emr1.emr.ca> Lines: 66 Sender: new...@emr1.emr.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: nveilleu.cpcs.emr.ca Organization: CPCS, Energy Mines & Resources, Canada References: <199...@crosfield.co.uk> <emc...@nubs97.ccs.itd.umich.edu> Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 17:11:28 GMT
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