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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 Jun 2001.
Re: New Ascii Movies + open source viewer

Re: New Ascii Movies + open source viewer

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:14:57 GMT, stu...@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore)
wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:09:49 GMT, stu...@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) enlightened
>us with:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:14:25 +0200, Marion Koslowski <M...@Kasperhausen.de>
>> enlightened us with:
>> 
>> > Markus Gebhard - Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:32:06 +0200
>> > 
>> > >The idea for this project came from Andreas Freise. He wanted to show
>> > >others how Ascii artist draw Ascii art images. The first movie showing
>> > >the creation of "tshilp" is online now and can be viewed at: 
>> > >
>> > >  http://www.jave.de/player/demo1.html
>> > >
>> > >Have a look at it - it is fascinating.
>> > 
>> > You are right! This is great!
>> > (Is there an english sentence like "Shooting with canons on sparrows"? I
>> > thought it's a german phrase...)
>> 
>> Closest I can think of is "Kill two birds with one stone" but I guess they have
>> different meanings
>
>Or possibly, if the original phrase means to use something far more powerful
>than you need for the task you're doing, "to crack a nut with a sledgehammer"

yeah that's the one.. but "shooting with cannons on sparrows" is the
german one meant in this ascii animation because both the jave author
and afaik the artist are german

i wouldn't even know how to pronounce "tschilp" in english ;) sounds
quite funny the way i would say it
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From: "lastfuture (Peter Marquardt)" <las...@lastfuture.de>
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Subject: Re: New Ascii Movies + open source viewer
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