Re: character set study
Spunk1111 wrote: > > >Date: Tue, Jan 27, 1998 20:20 EST > >Message-id: <34C...@mpq.mpg.de> > this is a very clever study... I'm not sure what it > does tell you though about my ASCII art pictures... Not much. I knew it would show WHAT characters you use but not WHY. When looking at the pictures my bmp-to-ascii program drew, I found that I would have not chosen some of the characters it did. I decided to reduce the characters available to the program and see what happens. I spent hours studying bit patterns till I saw them in my sleep and I came up with a very reduced character set. O0X89P4Fdbo()*+-,'/=[\]_{|}~ The results were much better. I then got the idea to use your favorite characters and thats why I did this test study. Your characters work very well in my program too only you use many more characters so the program runs slower. :-) > >> Character Occurances Percent of total > >> ========= ========== ================ > >> space 20055 63.223 > definitely not a solid-style ASCII artist... Allen Mullen > or the DutchDude would have a much lower space > count... hmmmm, I also wonder if this takes into account > how far the pic is to the right of the left margin... it may > be misleading in terms of total utilization... You are correct. When I was nearly finished building the test document containiny many drawings I realized that I had fogotten to delete unneeded leading spaces. But the space character is a given anyway to line ascii. > Of the remaining characters, I can tell you that I > don't use the $ or ?-- to me it is too distracting.... also too > typical of GIFSCII pics... Yep. My program chose those and others (QQQQQQ yech!) too often thats why I had to limit its choses. > but there are some on the list > that I do use:1 bd p m n uUH l m vy 7 A P-- not all the time-- > you must've just missed them. I was suprised at how little you use b and d. > Again- neat study-- I found it very interesting.. thank you! > -joan your welcome. gem
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ef11ec065eec2ab6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: gem <ge...@atlantis-bbs.com> Subject: Re: character set study Date: 1998/01/28 Message-ID: <34D...@atlantis-bbs.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 320205209 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34C...@atlantis-bbs.com> <199...@ladder02.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Verio Northern California's Usenet News Service Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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