Re: oooooh controversy!

On Fri, 31 May 2002 20:32:30 -0000, sli...@webjaz.net (slim) wrote:

>I do understand, like I said before I'm still learning ANSI and ASCII.... :) 
>either way you missed my point appearantly. It doesn't matter to me if its
>ANSI or ASCII I guess I'm just saying art is art and just when you think you
>can't break the mold someone will.  I'm also saying be imaginative.  There are
>ways.

Art is art to the beholder and to the creator, but may not be art to 
someone else. But to define a medium to display a form of art for 
all to enjoy or view has happen in this group. A universal limited 
character set displayed in a fix width font in a plain text document 
from whatever background and font color one chooses to display the
ascii-art on his/hers screen.

>>> First of all....I'm an artist. 

When ready post some ascii art :)  

>>> In this case ASCII art I do believe could be a very interesting art 
>>> form black/white or color.  

You can color the art and call it colored ascii art as long as 
character set remains from 032 to 126 and fix without any ctlr 
tags for any single character or lines ( +b, +i, +u ) keeping the 
document pure. Its out there take a look but it should not posted 
here.
 
>>You do not understand. You cannot paint a picture in watercolors and 
>>call it an oil painting.

But you can use watercolors to paint a picture representing an oil 
painting or the way around. But the medium is the same. A canvas, paper
displayed on the wall

>>if it has colors it isn't ASCII, because ASCII has only a limited set 
>>of characters that can be used, and none of which is able to 
>>represent color.
I do not think any character set has color built in to it.
>>You can do colored text art, for example with ANSI, but that's not 
>>ASCII.
Htlm is used to color ascii characters. Ansi use higher characters
and would not be consider ascii.

Take gander, this should answer some more question and/or create some
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/faq.html

sorry lost the link to the newer version

lgbeard

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