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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Feb 1997.
Re: how do u do ....?

Re: how do u do ....?

Briggs C A wrote:
> 
> Hello readers / subscribers,
> 
> It just occured to me that this ASCII Art is superb and it never ceases to
> amaze me that one can create excellent pictures using a fixed width font
> and some clever thinking.
> 
> Here's my question - do ASCII artists type all the pictures or do they
> create them from software, converting from a b/w image or something? I
> mean, it's really amazing to make these pictures. I'm just curious to
> know. Maybe the answer is top secret... I'll have to wait and see.
> 
> I hope someone out there can answer my question :)
> Signed...
> 
> =====================================================================
> Colin Briggs        Web Page: http://cswww2.essex.ac.uk/users/cabrig/
> =====================================================================

Most Art is just typed in an editor, there are programs that make
asciiart out of pics, but not as good as the art in this newsgroup.

See ya,
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Subject: Re: how do u do ....?
Date: 1997/02/06
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