Re: Evolution -- how to improve it?

Alex Schroeder <as...@bsiag.com> writes
>
>As you'll notice, I adopted your twiddling of the monkey.  I hope you
>don't mind, I'm planning on having a little web page on ascii art,
>I'll mention your homepage...  :D

....oh ... cheers :)
>
>The twiddling of the screen using ; instead of � looks weird on my
>machine: kind of fuzzy!?  I also tried | instead of � but it didn't
>help - Using | (no break in the bar on my machine) makes the TV front
>less "active" (?)...  I just realized the difficulties of describing
>the minor nuances of ASCII art on the human visual system...
>
>I also added a little tail to the mammal.
>
>Alex.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6120/       %o  /             _
                         %o         _%o_/       <b--+    \  %O    � \
           %o     .oodMMp'         / M           M /      \dB--+__�_/__
   ..oooOOO/       /\   /\         \ >>         /`L        `L\_   __|__

yep... i know exactly what you mean ... some pics i make look cool in
one font but then crap in another
.. altho' this pic seems to look ok in all fonts .. except for the tv

about that 8-bit char... well i tried a number of 7-bit variations...
at the moment
it looks  _                          _
like --> | |     but in the         | |  (my default true-type font
         |_|     input window       | |   for Ie4/Ns4 is topaz-new2)
          _      of my Ie4 it       |_|
         | |     looks like -->      _
         |_|                        |_|

i pasted it into a tool i made called 'webflip.htm' which revealed:

4 lines
-------------------
32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,95
32,92,32,32,37,79,32,32,32,32,166,32,92
32,32,92,100,66,45,45,43,95,95,166,95,47,95,95
32,32,32,96,76,92,95,32,32,32,95,95,124,95,95
-------------------
           _
 \  %O    � \
  \dB--+__�_/__
   `L\_   __|__

-------------------

   ,T/~   ~~|~~
  /qB--+~~�~\~~
 /  %O    � /
           ~
-------------------
   _
  / �    O%  /
__\_�__+--Bb/
__|__   _/J'

-------------------

as you can see from the table the char is code 166 decimal ...
NB: any char above 127 is likely to look different on your
    recipient's machine
... try changing the viewing font to 'terminal' and you'll
notice that the char has become
     ___
    / _ \
   | (_) |
    \___n_\
    _______
   |_______|

alas ... this problem can be detrimental to viewing your picture ...
thus i tried to find a compromise between what you've intended
and what will pass thru' all transports

... anyway ... keep on keeping on :)

[][ see yuz
[][ colin
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