Re: ASCII Line Art...

pol...@Hawaii.Edu (Art Pollard) wrote:

>I am interested in finding ASCII line art.  That is ASCII artwork that all
>fits on ONE line.

?
*line* art is opposed to *solid*...

 ==========================================
 | ,dP""8a "888888b,  d8b    "888b  ,888" |
 | 88b   "  888  d88 dPY8b    88Y8b,8888  |
 | `"Y8888a 888ad8P'dPaaY8b   88 Y88P888  |
 | a,   Y88 888    dP    Y8b  88  YP 888  |
 | `"8ad8P'a888a  a88a;*a888aa88a   a888a |
 |                ;*;;;;*;;;*;;;*,,       |
 |        _,---'':::';*;;;*;;;*;;*d;,     |
 |     .-'      ::::::::::';*;;*;dII;     |
 |   .' ,<<<,.  :::::::::::::::ffffff`.   |
 |  / ,<<<<<<<<,::::::::::::::::fffffI,\  |
 | .,<<<<<<<<<<I;::::::::: /~~\-/~~\  f", |      -Flies by jgs
 | |<<<<<<<<<<dP;,?>;,:::._\   |   /_.f | |       Spam by Felix Lee-
 | ``<<<  _,_  ;;;;\>>>>>.__\__Y__/__.f ' |
 |  \  ._(@I@)_. ;;;\>>>>>  _{___}_    /  |
 |   `.--{___}--.;;;i>>>>  ' (@I@) ' ,'   |
 |    .-/  Y  \-.;sP'`"?>>>>> ~'~ ====.   |
 |     /   |   \ ._______...|<[Hormel |   |
 |     \__/-\__/            `========='   |
 =====================================(FL)=

The flies are line-art:  (/\_-|) are connected to make _lines_
The spam is solid-art:   8adp    are just used for anti-aliasing
purposes

>Recently while browsing the web, I found someone who had a wave which was
>formed like so:

>  (`._

>However, it looked a bit better because they used the extended chars to
>put an overstrike betwen the ( and ' 

you mean ` (ascii-96) not ' (ascii-39)

>and there was a dot that looked like
>a period except centered vertically between the ' and .  

a *bullet*

>Their codes were
>175 and 183 when I looked at them with a hex editor.  (So, I guess they
>fall within the ISO extended characters as it looked the same on a Mac.)

mmm

>So, it has made me wonder what else can be done one one line besides 
>arrows >>>>>-------> and smilies :-).

>-Art

the thread Randy is talking about is called _one liners_...
here's one post:

===
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 00:27:03 -0700,
Randy Gardner cause to appear:
>Randy Gardner wrote:

>> <One-Liners>
>
>Here's more:
>
>_."._."._."._."._."._."._         Another waveform
>
><'><     ><`>       mini-fish
>
>db db db db db db db db db db db db db db db     Big dots
>
>-<=+   Mini-plane
>
>[`.`.`.`]  Data plug
>
><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>  Head-band
>
>>< >< >< >< >< >< ><  Big Xs
>
>-=x=-=x=-=x=-=x=-=x=-  Um...
>
><:>:<:>:<:>:<:>:<:>:<:>:  Head-Band
>
>^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^  Uh.... It's cool............
>
>|/|\|/|\|/|\|/|\|  Another bar
>
>
Some of mine

)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)( Border

 \__o- \__o- \__o-  \__o-   Duckies

>(((((*. Fishy (not mine)



     /^(o.o)^\ Bug

    --=============)@@@@@@-o  Sword

-- 
Grey Cloak

====

Have fun! There's a lot more which can be drawn using the Ascii
character set besides arrows and smilies :) Maybe your post
re-animates the *one-liner*-thread,

greetz,
mic

>>Take one of the ff out to respond to proper email address<<

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