Pen & paper ASCII art
From Maija Haavisto <mai...@dontspambut.writeme.com>
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· 5 Aug 2002 23:17 · View full thread
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Have you ever drawn ASCII art with a pen, on a sheet of paper? I did it like five years ago when I was bored at school.
The Assembly 02 demoparty has never had ASCII competitions unlike many other demoparties (usually all the entries are high-ascii
though), but AltParty held an "analogue ASCII competition" there. We were only allowed to use pen, graph paper and draw 7-bit
characters. It is an interesting challenge, harder than it seems. Also has some good aspects, like you can have some influence on how
the characters look - is the hyphen straight or not, are the o's round or elliptic etc.
I ended up on second place with "Come to Teddy" (a handicapped teddy bear who's playing with a joystick) (don't ask me where I got the
inspiration, I have no idea). I hope someone will put the pictures up on the Internet. OCR software probably doesn't work on all the
pics so they are probably just scanned.
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