Re: character set study

In article <34C...@mpq.mpg.de>, Andreas Freise <ad...@mpq.mpg.de>
wrote:
> 
> gem wrote:
> > This a character count using 31721 characters-worth of
> > Joan Stark's ascii drawings. I was playing around trying
> > to write a BMP to "line" ascii program. To find the best
> > characters to use I wrote a quick program to count the
> > characters and their frequency.
> 
> Funny idea. I wonder if that analysis could be
> a 'fingerprint' of the artist. Maybe not to
> distinguish between hjw and jgs, but you'd
> surely notice an increase of the > and < while scanning
> llizard's art. Not to talk about other styles
> (like by Normand Veilleux etc).
> 
> 'The scientist looked up from his statistics and
> said : Well either this is a really good fake or
> it is a genuine jgs.' :))
> 
[snip]
> > Total characters counted = 31721
> >
> > Character      Occurances   Percent of total
> > =========      ==========   ================
[snip]
> 
> Hm, 51 (?) different characters. Only!
> 
> > $              0             0
> > 1              0             0
> > 2              0             0
> > 3              0             0
> > 4              0             0
> > 5              0             0
> > 7              0             0
> > ?              0             0
> > A              0             0
> > B              0             0
> > E              0             0
> > F              0             0
> > G              0             0
> > H              0             0
> > J              0             0
> > K              0             0
> > M              0             0
> > N              0             0
> > P              0             0
> > Q              0             0
> > R              0             0
> > S              0             0
> > T              0             0
> > U              0             0
> > W              0             0
> > Z              0             0
> > b              0             0
> > d              0             0
> > f              0             0
> > h              0             0
> > i              0             0
> > k              0             0
> > l              0             0
> > m              0             0
> > n              0             0
> > p              0             0
> > r              0             0
> > t              0             0
> > u              0             0
> > v              0             0
> > w              0             0
> > x              0             0
> > y              0             0
> > z              0             0
> 
> And a lot of discriminated characters here. Hear them crying?
> 
> :)
> Andreas
> 
>                               abcdef... .
>                                  -._ O /
>                                     ` '
>                                     / \
>                                     ())
>         __     _..--.. .-'`-.     .-d-b-.
>      --'  `_.-'       ``.._. `  .'       `.  _a:f.
>         .-'                    '          ,-'
> 
>    ASCII Art Dictionary :
>   - http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise 
>    Alt.Ascii-Art FAQ :
>   - http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/ascii/faq.html
.
       ______%^|>
      } JGS's {/ >
      } TRASH {  >,^
      }  BIN  { /|
ejm98 }_______{ | \

              $$  
               \_,^%---
       _4v_?__ _/>  \ You're right, Andreas;
      } JGS's {  >      there are tons of perfectly
      } TRASH {  >,^      good characters just discarded!
      }  BIN  { /|          (And how prodigal of Joan to
ejm98 }_____p_{ | \            throw away so many $$$$$)
    Fl       Qz
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       | ~---,                     cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca
       |      \_,^%---                         llizard aka ejm
       |       />  \  Where do I begin??????
_______|_  ___/ >       _______     I'm reeling
 /|\      (Q o) >      } JGS's {            with
/ | \      '-~ /|^^    } TRASH {          the
  |  \ ejm97   | \     }__BIN__{             possibilities!

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