Re: [pic] Font

PeteCasso responded to Spunk1111:

--------8< sorry for barging in like that >8------------------

>> ie:  someone creates a sculpture ...  it is a 3D medium.
>> Someone then takes a picture of it...  it is now a 2D
>> representation of a 3D artform.  Quite different.

>Quite different indeed, and irrelevant as well.

Not quite, Flintstein.

Back in the 60ties ASCII was designed for transmitting data in 7-bit mode.
For telex I think it was... The idea was to shove 7 bits into the network
and get 7 bits out at the receiving end.

Like this:
                             ,-------------.
                             | ) = 0101001 |
                             `-------------'
    ____
  _(    )  ___________         ____________           ___________ 
 (     )  | _________ |       |            |         | _________ |
(_   ) _) ||         ||       |   0101001  |         ||         ||
  (____)  ||    )    ||       |__/______,__|         ||    )    ||
  O       ||         ||         /        \           ||         ||
 o        ||_________||  _____  \   _____/   _____   ||_________||
_____     |       ___ | |     |  \ /        |     |  |       ___ |
_  _ \    |_=_________| |     |   \         |     |  |_=_________|  ___
 \( \| _   |_________|  |     |__/ \_____   |     | _ |_________|  /  /
  -_);' \ /        |    |     |          \__|     |/ \___/   \   _| ) )__
  [_____|/         |    0101001             0101001           \__| \_/   \
                   \___/|     |             |     |              |_______|
                        |_____|             |_____|


Now, when you turn our cute little left parenthesis into a gif before you
transmit it, the network has a slightly bigger problem congesting it.


    ____                        101010101001010101
  _(    )  ___________         __________10000101000  ___________ 
 (     )  | _________ |    1010101010010101000101010 | _________ |
(_   ) _) ||         ||  01010010101101001010100100  ||         ||
  (____)  ||    )    ||       |__/__10101010010101   ||    )    ||
  O       ||         ||  101001 /        \ 010100101 ||         ||
 o        ||_________||  _____ 101011001_/   _____   ||_________||
_____     |       ___ | |     |  \ /1010101011011 |  |       ___ |
_  _ \    |_=_________| 10101010101 01010100101111|  |_=_________|  ___
 \( \| _   |_________|  |  1100101010101010101011 | _ |_________|  /  /
  -_);' \ /        |  1010101111010100110101000111|/ \___/   \   _| ) )__
  [_____|/         |    0101001    10101    0101001           \__| \_/   \
                   \___/| 1111101010100101001000011010           |_______|
                        |___10001010010001001010111
                          0000010101011111110010010101


Agreed, applying a 3D vs. 2D metaphor to 7-bit vs. 8-bit data transmission
might be a little confusing. But the main idea - ascii-art being tied hand
and feet to its medium - isn't irrelevant at all. That's a plain fact.

,mic

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