Re: How are ASCII art best viewed ?
Neil Franklin wrote : >Anil <ani...@vsnl.com> writes: > >> Neil Franklin wrote : >> >> >Anil <x3l...@vsnl.com> writes: >> > >> >> I am pretty new to this group. I would like to know which is >> >> the environment for which most creations are made. Black chars on >> >> white or white on black, that is. >> > >> >Funny enough I prefer green (IBMer), despite being a DECer (orange). >> > >> I'm with you coz I get bad eyes if I look at bright screen with few >> dark things. I've seen the green IBMs that you are talking about - >> used to be at my school long ago. >> >> One more problem - What about the fonts ? Just about any fixed width >> font will do ? > >Non-serifed fonts tend to work a little better, as they fit bette >rinto drawing lines and shapes. > >non-serif: > > m mm mm > mm mm m > m m m > m m m > m m m > >serif: > > mm mm mm > mm mm m > m m m > m m m > mmm mmm mmm > > >-- >Neil Franklin, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ >Nerd, Geek, Hacker, Unix Guru, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, LARPer, Mystic Gotcha. My question was badly framed (sorry) - Since I work in (SVGA - 116x34 cell) text-mode I am more bothered about the aspect ratio. I mean variations like below. o oo oo oo ooo ooo o oo oo oo oo o ooo ooo ooo oo oo o o o o oo oo oo o o o o o o oo oo oo o o o o o o oo oo oo o o o o o o -- /. _ \ Remove the DARK FORCE . o...__...__...o . [==(H)==] from my mail id to use it _...-->=<--..._ . \ / . . " "
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,af3c45da4058afca X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-27 20:09:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!61.1.254.226!not-for-mail From: Anil <ani...@vsnl.com> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: How are ASCII art best viewed ? Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:31:36 +0530 Organization: Nutty LAN Lines: 61 Message-ID: <gacuq8.o51.ln@squarehead> References: <6ul...@chonsp.franklin.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.1.254.226 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 970110543 17241174 61.1.254.226 (16 [50189]) Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:1232
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