Re: ASCTOOL.EXE test

In article <qAo...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>, CJRandall
<col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> writes
[][ yep ... i've cross-posted this just to make sure it reaches
[][ the attention of :-
>In article <35d...@news.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite
><cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes
>>
>>I have been doing another test on Colin Randall's ASCTOOL.EXE
>>picture rotation utility using a simple "square/rectangle".
>>
>[][ for on-lookers ...
>                                  _.-.
>                               _.=\`1T
>                            _.=\ \ \1T
>                  |^\_   _.=\ \ \ \ 1T
>                  |\\\\ .[ \ \ \ \ \1T
>                   \\  |||\ \ \ \ \ 1T
>                _   )) /|| \ \ \ \ \LJ
>              .=1\_//.|.||\ \ \ \ \_/
>           .='/1|:  ::|T'\ \ \ \ \_/
>        .='/ / ||:  ::||\ \ \ \ \_/
>     ,='/ / / /`1:  :'Y| \ \ \ \_/      __
>     1'/ / / / /|'\\\ Y|\ \ \ \_/    .=[__]
>     1/ / / / / Y, ;;_;| \_\_=~   .='.=T  T
>     1 / / / / /::_YY;Y]\\\    .='.='  |  |
>     1/ / / / / /Y;[] []\\\\.='.='     |  |
>     1 / / / / / /Y[]_[]][='.='        |  |
>     1/ / / / / / _[(((--;='           |  |
>      '=_/ / /=' (((``;='              |  |
>        `-/='   .```='                 |__|
>             .='.='                  .-~_.'
>          .='.='                  .='.-'
>       .='.='                  .='.='
>    ,='.='                  .='.='
>    [='                  .='.='
>    T                 .='.='
>    |              .='.='
>    |           .='.='
>    |        .='.='
>    |     .='.='
>    |  ,='.='
>    |-'.='
>    `~~
[][ gryphon-hawk type gargoyle thingy
[][ kind of dragn like

[][ i think it looks quite good when viewed with white characters upon
[][ a black background

>[][ the rest of this post is text-type: plain/technical
>[][           with dos batch-file code: uuencoded/zipped
>
>>It works quite well except for the CW90 ( 270 degrees) and CCW90 (
>>360 degrees ) rotations where the relative horizontal/vertical
>>spacings elongate the image and also the character mapping seems
>>wrong for CW90 and CCW90 because the | and _ characters are not
>>retained in these conversions but are replaced by letters.
>>
>[ snip ]
>>
>>CW90.BAT:
>>
>> nnnnnnnn
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> nnnnnnnn
>>
>>CCW90.BAT
>>
>> aaaaaaaa
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> l       l
>> aaaaaaaa
>>
>>
>>Bye,
>[][ yep. you're right ...
>
>[][ ... did similar tests today ... also checked both the mapping in the
>[][ original unix scripts and the unix man-page for 'tr'.
>
>[][ i have (oops!) missed out a character in one of the mapping strings
>[][ (some need to be escaped) ... resulting in the failure shown above.
>
>[][ here are corrected batch-files with enhancements to allow the
>[][ inclusion of both | and "  by using escaped-octal-code-sequences.
>
>type sq.asc
>.----"--------,
>|             |
>|             |
>|  SQUARE.ASC |
>|             |
>|             |
>|             |
>`-------------'
>ccw90 sq.asc
>\------\
>|      |
>|  U   |
>|  S   |
>|  A   |
>|  .   |
>|  E   |
>|  R   |
>|  A   |
>:  )   |
>|  Q   |
>|  S   |
>|      |
>|      |
>.------/
>[][ hmmm .... still appears elongated .... but is mapped correctly.
>[][ ... mostly due to the difference between | and -
>
>[][ here are the batch-files ... LR.BAT  TB.BAT  CW90.BAT  CCW90.BAT
>[][ i've zipped and uuencoded them since posting them here in ascii
>[][ form will munge the line lengths.
>-----------8<--------cut-here---------8<--------------
>[ A UUEncoded file (asc-bats.zip) was included here. ]
>
>-----------8<--------cut-here---------8<--------------
>
>[][][ see yuz
>[][][ colin
[][ Colin, i posted it yesterday to news:alt.ascii-art.animation ...
[][ ... let me know how you get on with the updates.

[][ once you're happy with it ... i'll make the whole kit available
[][ from my website.

[][][ see yuz
[][][ colin
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