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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Apr 2001.
Re: New Version released - TONS of suggestions

Re: New Version released - TONS of suggestions

> For horizontal lines there are at least 4 levels of height you can use:
> __ .. -- ''/""

have you thought this of it this way in the line below there is eight levels of hieght
 _   .   -   ' 
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

or
 __  ..  --  ''
 1234567890123456
          1     1
> For vertical lines it is not that easy, there is only one (it is
> different in JFL style): | (that can be transformed to ,' as the angle
> increases). So using my line algorithms for drawing ellipses will only
> produce good results for the rather horizontal parts at the top and
> bottom, but it will produce trash for rather vertical parts :-(

depending on the placement
 
> Anybody out there with other ideas or experiences about algorithms for
> ellipses?

A carpenters trick comes to mind quartered or folded out much like the paper doll string
Surprise it even shows it on the web

        . - .
      .   ^   .
     `    |    `
    .     |     .
    '     C---> '
    '           '
     '         '
      `.     .`
        ` - `
         _ _
     . `  ^  ` .
  .`      |      `.
 /        |        \
|         C--->     |
 \                 /
  `.             .`
     ` . _ _ . `

http://www2.fwi.com/~krumy/elipse/elipse.htm

A bunch of lines need not be there to give a illusion or appearance 
that of which is desired. Tried to show 4 levels of depth not a 3D image
from jave`s icon which i found interesting

    _____________________
  / .-------------------. \
  ||\      ______      / ||
 //  `.   '------'   .`   \\
 ||    \   .---..   /     ||
  \\ '' `-(_.-. `\-` ''  //
  || ''    .--' |'   ''  ||
 //  ''   : ,-. |'   ''   \\
 ||  ''   : `-' |'   ''   ||
  \\ '' .-`.__:_,`-. ''  //
  ||   /   ______   \   ||
 //  .'   '------'   `.  \\
 || /__________________\ ||
  \.--------------------./jave

experimented with jave both top an bottom (like it) :)

and again more to the original

     \     ______     /
      `.  '------'  .'
        \  .---..  /
      ''  (_.-. `\  ''
      ''   .--' |'  ''
      ''  : ,-. |'  ''
      ''  : `-' |'  ''
      ''  `.__:_,`  ''
        /  ______  \
      .'  '------'  `.
     /                \jave


--lgbeard

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