Re: [Q] Is this ASCII art?

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> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:52:52 -0500, "Zotiel R. Bell"
<ali...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >I'm on a message board that has recently started to draw pictures in
ascii,
> >but they are all using the boards default Ariel font. Is this considered
> >ASCII art, and if not, why not?
>
> This question pops up every so often and usaully leads to an arguement.
> So to avert this here are a few resources to let you draw your own
> conclusions. :)
>
> A very brief article on why ascii was develope with mention of the
> teletype machines.
>
> http://www.bobbemer.com/brandela.htm
> http://www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.htm
> http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM
>
> teletype -- tty --
> Intended for media using a fixed-pitch character grid, such as teletypes,
> terminals, or portable devices with limited display capabilities.
>
> A history of ascii text art
>
> http://www.geocities.com/joan_stark/textasciihistory.txt
>
> My opinion it is not ascii-art. The use of extended charchters ( that will
> vary from one font to another ) and lack of fix width font. Have look at
> the fonts from Ariel to Verdana the font is display in non portional view
> and from these views the art changes from understandable to
non-understable
> even though it is specified to view in Ariel. Ariel was the default of
> AOL and they also did not have a portional font to my understanding.
>
> Reading from the link above or do search on marco-art i believe the
> differances between the two is more defineable when they are seen.
>
> >I've made a few of them...mostly diddles you can see mine as well as a
few
> >of the better ones at the link below (NOTE: If it not ASCII ~!PLEASE!~ do
> >not go there flaming them for their ignorance. If it is...well cool :))
> >
> >http://cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/gentopic.asp?board=5552
>
> Hey some of those very nice, enjoyed the visit. :)
>
> However notice one thing the font face on the board is not specified
> to view in the predetermined font, Ariel for the marco-art
>
>
Great links...thanks a million. Too bad Joan's pages are on geocities
though, the bandwidth was too full for me to see the image files she linked
to.

Does jgs still come around anymore?

-Zot

obascii (sig missing? but diddled by me)
Les Joyeux
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