Re: How to improve an ascii diagram.
Don Saklad wrote: <snip> > A smaller diagram with legend is a good thing along with the > labelled diagram. Both can be made available. <snip> > Please send along more critique! Here's another draft of the > labelled one... <snip> I agree with FP about the need for a legend (or at least abbreviations). I don't see how you can get the image any smaller without them. Below are some 70-column renditions of your map (using Jave). I used abbreviations, but you could easily use numbers/letters in parentheses/brackets. Labeled: _____________________________________________________________________ | _ _ | | _ _ Audio | | | Ref/ | News | | Net | A/V | Language | | Ref | DB Rsch | Mags | | Comp | Lg Prt | Test Bks | | | | | | | | | |-------- '------- '---------'-------'------ '------- '--- ------| | [Cat] | | | |---------------. . --. -------. .--- ----. -------. . -----| | | |Men |Non-Fict | |Non-Fict | Women | | | | | | | 300-359 | | 000-299 | | | Kids | |---------------' '-.--'---------'--'---------'--.------| | Prog. | |[Cat] | | | | | | | Kids | |-------| | 899 | | | | 960 | | Room | | New | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GrNvl | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trvl | | | / PB | | 900's | | Myst | CAMBRIDGE : | |-------| | | | | | | | | | | : | | Circ. | | | | | | | | | | | PUBLIC \ | | | | | | | Rsvd. | | Bio Sci-Fi Fict | LIBRARY | | DVD | | | | | | | | | | | | |----| | | | | | | | | | | | | | YA | | | |____________________| | Room | [X]| | '------| | | |Return | | |-------' Unlabeled (door style 1): _____________________________________________________________________ | _ _ | | _ _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------- '------- '---------'-------'------ '------- '--- ------| | | | | |---------------. . --. -------. .--- ----. -------. . -----| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---------------' '-.--'---------'--'---------'--.------| | | | | | | | | | | | |-------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / | | | | | | | | | | | CAMBRIDGE : | |-------| | | | | | | | | | | : | | | | | | | | | | | | | PUBLIC \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LIBRARY | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |----| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |____________________| | | | | '------| | | | | | |-------' Unlabeled (door style 2): _____________________________________________________________________ | _ _ | | _ _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------| |'------| |'---------'-------'-----| |'------| |'--| |------| | | | | |---------------. . |--.| |------. .--| |----.| |------. | |-----| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---------------' '-.--'---------'--'---------'--.------| |_ | | | | | _ | | | | | |-------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | _| |_ | | | / _ _ | | | | | | | | | | | CAMBRIDGE : | |-------| | | | | | | | | | | : | |_ | | | | | | | | | | | PUBLIC \ | _ | | | | | |_ | | | | | | | | | | | LIBRARY | | _ | | | | | | | | | | | | |----| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |____________________| | | |_ | '------| _ | | | | '| |'-------' -- dew
Original message headers
X-Google-Thread: f996b,fb495d6ea17e76a2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: sky...@yahoo.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: How to improve an ascii diagram. Date: 25 Jun 2005 11:01:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 115 Message-ID: <111...@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <111...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <6sfue.17918$FP2.4221@lakeread03> <t16...@nestle.csail.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.119.60.170 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1119722478 24929 127.0.0.1 (25 Jun 2005 18:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: gro...@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:01:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: gro...@google.com Injection-Info: g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.119.60.170; posting-account=SxFOVAwAAAAfwAdP49HozxuuMQrNujbo Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.ascii-art:4210
Related ASCII art in the Gallery
Explore these categories from our collection of 11,000+ artworks:
Make your own ASCII art
Turn images, text or 3D into ASCII, or draw your own – right in your browser.
About this message.
This message was posted publicly to the newsgroup
alt.ascii-art
in 2005 and is mirrored here unchanged as part of the Historic Archives – only email addresses are masked.
The artwork and text belong to their original authors: if you copy a piece, keep the artist's initials or signature intact and credit them where you can.
Are you the author? Contact us to get your posts attributed, connected to your artist profile, or removed.
Report this message
Help us keep the archive clean and accurate. Reports are reviewed by a person – nothing is changed automatically.