Re: The earliest ascii-art...
From Susan H. Neese <bv6...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA>
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· 2 May 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Jorn Barger (jor...@mcs.com) writes: > In some serious novel I read, that took place around 1900 or so, they > described a picture hanging on someone's wall, which created a portrait > of some author (Tolstoy?) by varying the weight (eg, boldface) of > individual letters in a long quote from that author. (Whew! Badly > phrased explanation there, sorry.) I think the borders were also shaped > to be his sillhouette. But I assume such art did exist then. I have a picture around here somewhere, taken from American Heritage magazine. It's of Abraham Lincoln and is created from the Gettysburg Address. Pretty neat. *s* -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUE id7...@cleveland.freenet.edu "...speaking words of wisdom, -or- BTL...@scn.org 'Let it be.'" Lennon/McCartney
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,da6b446598825ecb X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: bv6...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Susan H. Neese) Subject: Re: The earliest ascii-art... Date: 1998/05/02 Message-ID: <6ie69p$bn...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 349515090 References: <354...@gwtc.net> <Pin...@teer29.acpub.duke.edu> <3545B6B4.3DB3@_NOSPAM_mindless.com> <1d8...@jorn.pr.mcs.net> X-Given-Sender: bv6...@freenet3.carleton.ca (Susan H. Neese) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Reply-To: bv6...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Susan H. Neese) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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