Re: ASCII Art Game/Tool (was: Hey, LastFuture)

i was thinking of an example where you had for example your hart

  .-. .-.
 (   `   )
  `.   .�
    `.�

now the two �'s are not ascii 
so your job would be to fix it 

  .-. .-.
 (   `   )
  `.   .'
    `.`

this part of the program is very easy to code in any language given
the example i posted in another thread using bash.

granted the example i gave would only confirm that you removed all the
non standerd ascii chars and not actualy insure you replaced them but
its a start.



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> Hi,
> 
> I was very busy during the last two weeks but I read all your postings
> to this subject. I really don't understand what you are talking about.
>   You are discussing about what programming language to use, about what
> operating system the program shall run on etc. But it seems to me that
> nobody here knows what the program shall do at all.
> 
> At first it was about the fun of puzzling 'shaked' Ascii art
> You have this one:
>    .-. .-.
> (   `   )
>     `.   .�
> `.�
> And after moving around the lines it will result in:
>  .-. .-.
> (   `   )
>  `.   .�
>    `.�
> 
> So shall the program simply be a tool that shakes the lines of Ascii
> Art, so it becomes kind of a puzzle? Then the program is a game and it
> is very simple to write it (it will take me 5 minutes to integrate it
> into Jave - if you are interested in it).
> 
> Then came the idea of doing it all the other way around. You have
> somehow crippled Ascii Art like:
> ______   ______     ______    __
>  /      | /  __  \   /  __  \  |  |
>      |  ,----'|  |  |  | |  |  |  | |  |
>       |  |     |  |  |  | |  |  |  | |  |
> |  `----.|  `--'  | |  `--'  | |  `----.
>              \______| \______/   \______/  |_______|
> And the program tries to fix it:
>   ______   ______     ______    __
>  /      | /  __  \   /  __  \  |  |
> |  ,----'|  |  |  | |  |  |  | |  |
> |  |     |  |  |  | |  |  |  | |  |
> |  `----.|  `--'  | |  `--'  | |  `----.
>  \______| \______/   \______/  |_______|
> 
> So the program is a tool and it is quite hard to write it, for one has
> to find out when an Ascii art image is correct or not. (For example you
> have to find a way to compute the degree of possible correctness to a
> given image and then only have to try to maximize this value by movin
> around the lines). That could work with some images, but it will not be
> possible to write such kind of tool to be able to work on images like:
> 
> .,    \                   <- Try to fix this line.
>      _.=./ "\.   G        How shall a computer do that? 
>    .'  ~  /`" \/(#)\.
>   ~ |_ _( )     / \/
>     |:  | |     |||
>     '   ` '     Z L
> a:f
> 
> So the first question that has to be answered is:
> -+--------------------------+-
>  | What is the program for? |
> -+--------------------------+-
> 
> The second question is NOT the programming language or operating system.
> It is:
> 
> -+--------------------+-
>  | How shall it work? |
> -+--------------------+-
> 
> For those questions it is very useful to have examples (like the ones
> above). Then one can try to write down some kind of algorithm like:
>   
>   for each line in the image:
>     remove empty characters on the left
>   find maximum length of a line (max)
>   find minimum length of a line (min)
>   ...
> 
> And when that is done someone can write a first program (in any language
> he likes). If it works it is no big deal to convert it to other
> languages/systems.
> 
> Now who is going to answer the first question?
> 
> Markus


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