Talk: ASCII art
From Gabriel Velasco <gve...@UCSD.EDU>
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· 9 Dec 1994 15:29 · View full thread
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Bob Allison (bob...@wwa.com) wrote: : Picard the bald said that Eli the bearded <bgr...@ic.sunysb.edu> wrote: : > : >A long time ago (late sixties I believe) Scientific : >American printed a piece of ascii art (the classic : >reclining female nude :^) that had obviously came : >from a line printer. The only special technique used : >was to half space all the characters on the line : >and to halve the line spacing to substantially : >increase the resolution of the output. The results : >were quite good. : Remember, before Internet ASCII style art, people were making 5 bit : ASCII art on teletype machines. And before that it was made : typographically. And then there's the art made with tiles or light : bulbs. I've even seen a huge picture made with tiles that were : themselves pictures. I wrote a program for the Commodore 64 that could do a screen dump of a 1 bit high-res screen to a daisy-wheel printer. The printer had control codes to set the Horizonalt Motion Index (how much the head moves after it prints a character) and the Vertical Motion Index (how much the paper moves when the printer receives a line feed). You could set them as small as one point (1/72"). The period was exactly one point wide. So, I just used periods and spaces (at a fixed width HMI of one point the space caused a 1/72" movement of the print head) to draw the pictures that came out fully dense. People were amazed when I told them I had done these pictures on a daisy wheel printer. Technically, they were ASCII art because I was only using ASCII characters to print them. -- ||||||| ||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| || || || || || || || || || || || || |||| ||||||| |||||| |||||| || |||||| || || || || || || || || || || || || |||||| || || |||||| || || |||||| |||||| ||||||
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,3796fffe486bcf0d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,3796fffe486bcf0d X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,3796fffe486bcf0d X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-09 16:53:58 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!ub4b!EU.net!Germany.EU.net! howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: gve...@UCSD.EDU (Gabriel Velasco) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: ASCII art Followup-To: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Date: 9 Dec 1994 09:29:01 -0600 Organization: UCSD SOE Lines: 40 Sender: bob...@gagme.wwa.com Approved: bob...@wwa.com Message-ID: <3c9t3t$3k...@gagme.wwa.com> References: <215...@anon.penet.fi> <3bjvdh$ej...@sashimi.wwa.com> <3bv94a$9...@gagme.wwa.com> <3c4qu7$j4...@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: nntp.gmd.de rec.arts.ascii:3243 alt.ascii-art:17878
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