Re: how do u do ....?

On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 18:14:23 +0000, Briggs C A <cab...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:

>amaze me that one can create excellent pictures using a fixed width font
>and some clever thinking.
>
>Here's my question - do ASCII artists type all the pictures or do they
>create them from software, converting from a b/w image or something? I

Both.

I am most emphatically *not* one of the artists, but not speaking up has never
been one of my least non-virtuous traits (let me know when you're done with
that). When you see the stuff that Joan, or Veronica, or Dave or Shimrod or so
many others do from scratch, you are seeing real talent and art.

There are generated pictures too, made by using software to translate say a
GIF, into ascii characters, and while they can be interesting, for my money
they are really no different than photocopying a picture of the Mona Lisa. The
real artist is Canon or Xerox, and not the person feeding the paper into the
machine. The same with the software. The real artist is the software programmer
who created such a program, and not the person typing 'gif2asc monalisa'.

Alan
 
My real address is alanp @ netcom.ca (without spaces)
but I'm sick of email spam.

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