Re: LINE - Hilbert curves

+--- Douglas W. Jones <jon...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu> writes:
| 
| >From article <2t4ro1$bi...@gagme.wwa.com>,
| by pau...@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de (Paul Foerster):
| > ... And how about replacing the dots (.) with underlines (_) and the
| > exclamation-marks (!) with bars (|)...
| 
| My original used _ and |, but it looked better with a strong mark at
| each vertex.  Periods (.) worked well, and if your exclamation point
| prints heavy, with the dot at the bottom as sharp as the period, it
| looks very good.
|  {snip}
| The problem with limiting yourself to | and _ is that the _ hangs over the
| end of each corner, looking a bit sloppy.

True... but on my terminal (fairly standard PC character set), the 
exclamation point is *too* heavy--the bulbous part at the top makes the 
vertical lines jump out to the exclusion of the horizontal ones.

Replacing non-corner periods with underscores and replacing the
exclamation points with pipes seems to work well: 

 ._. .___. .___.
 ._| |_. |_| ._|
 | ._. | ._. |_.
 |_| |_| | |___|
 ._. ._. | .___.
 | |_| | |_| ._|
 |_. ._| ._. |_.
 ._| |___| |___|

If you don't mind rounding off the corners, you can drop the periods 
alltogether for what feels, to my eye, slightly less jumpy:
  _   ___   ___
  _| |_  |_|  _|
 |  _  |  _  |_
 |_| |_| | |___|
  _   _  |  ___
 | |_| | |_|  _|
 |_   _|  _  |_
  _| |___| |___|

Previous renderings preserved for comparison:

|   ._. ._._. ._._.
|   ._! !_. !_! ._!
|   ! ._. ! ._. !_.
|   !_! !_! ! !_._!
|   ._. ._. ! ._._.
|   ! !_! ! !_! ._!
|   !_. ._! ._. !_.
|   ._! !_._! !_._!
| 
| > ___ _____ _____
| > __| |__ |_| __|
| > | ___ | ___ |__
| > |_| |_| | |___|
| > ___ ___ | _____
| > | |_| | |_| __|
| > |__ __| ___ |__
| > __| |___| |___|

Strictly IMHO and WMHE (With My Humble Eyes), of course.

(By-the-by, I'm quite enjoying the new rec group.  I don't have time any
more to keep up with the volume that passes through a.a-a anymore... this
seems to be a nice compromise.  Can I assume that anything truly stunning
in a.a-a that isn't originally cross-posted will eventually make its way
over here for those of us that don't keep up with both?)

-Jay-

-- 
Jay B. Parker -- Mississippi State University -- jbp...@Ra.MsState.Edu
"But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep."-Frost

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