Re: pokemon by me
From Peter Punk <ppu...@damnthatspam.chello.nl>
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· 21 Oct 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:09:02 +0200, Veronica Karlsson <asc...@hotmail.com> provoked the following text: >> >Why is this not considered ascii art-I thought ascii was images made up of text, regardless if made >> >with a converter or not. >> >> For a picture to be real art, it should be hand-made. A converted pic is nothing >> more than that, it's a picture and that's it. It's still ASCII, but it's not >> art. > >I think it has more to do with quality. So far most of those programs >produce pure garbage (the only exception I can think of right now is >Figlet, but then it deals with a very specific type of input). I can't really call Figlet a pic2ASCII convertor, it "simply" produces ASCII-text. 8< >Then there's the argument that the group enjoys, even encourages lots of >"ugly" pictures. Well, pictures made by a newbie are usually not as good >as pictures made by the same person a few months later. (Need i say the following? No, but i do anyway :-)) That's why especially the newbies need encouraging, sooner or later they will produce (and hopefully post) their best pics. -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Versie 3.0 van de SETI@home CLI client is er! Vervangt ook de non-Intel client. Ga dan naar http://home.hetnet.nl/~setiathomegroep/index.html voor tips, antwoorden, discussies. links, downloads en meer. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
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