Re: ASCTOOL.EXE test
From CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>
· alt.ascii-art
· 23 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
In article <903...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes >Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> wrote: > >>I have been doing another test on Colin Randall's ASCTOOL.EXE >>It works quite well except for the CW90 ( 270 degrees) and CCW90 ( >>360 degrees ) rotations where the relative horizontal/vertical >>I think Joshua Bell's original code did not change the characters >>although there was some aspect ratio distortion with CW90 and CCW90. [ snip - mapping problem ] >As a follow up to my first post I checked Joshua Bell's original >illustrations of the results of his program and I see that his CW90 >and CCW90 images are distorted as he says they will be but he seems >to have retained the same characters for his mapping: > > >------- Comment by Joshua Bell, 31 July 1994 --------------- > >Note: None of these utilities rescale images or attempt to do >anything beyond the scope of a single character cell. So rotated >images are almost always going to be extremely distorted. > >Examples: ($ is my prompt) > >$ cat genie > _.---.__ > .' `-. > / .--. | > \/ / / |_/ > `\/|/ _(_) > ___ /|_.--' `. . > \ `--' .---. \ /| > ) ` \ //| > | __ __ | '/|| > |/ \ / \ / || > || | | \ \ | > \| | | / | > __\\@/ |@ | ___ \--' > ( /' `--' __)| > __> ( . .--' &"\ > / `--|_/--' & | > | #. | > | q# | > \ ,ad#' > `.________.ad####' > `#####""""""'' > `&#" > &# "& > "#ba" > [ snip ] >$ cw90 genie > --\ > / | > / |n > . v | /| > /| / |/---u | > /#| | /--\ | /\ >:&&#| | / | / /\ . >####| -n @ | | / \ >b :#| | \\--/ /|\\ | >a: #| \ \ \--\ . >:& :| |. |\ | > :| | /---\ .. \ | > :. \ |@ | || . | > :a .| | || | . > :d |\- / |\ | | > :# | \/ . | . | > \#\ \ | / n- / > \#a || - || | > #dq#&&|| u\ . > \##. :u / - > \ /-/ . > --- | /\\ / > | \\ > \ --\\ > ------. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- [][ the mapping of the latest set of batch files test results ... cw90 djin.asc --\ / | / |n . v | /| /| / |/---u | /#| | /--\ | /\ :&&#| | / | / /\ . ####| -n @ | | / \ b :#| | \\--/ /|\\ | a: #| \ \ \--\ . :& :| |. |\ | :| | /---\ .. \ | :. \ |@ | || . | :a .| | || | . :d |\- / |\ | | :# | \/ . | . | \#\ \ | / n- / \#a || - || | #dq#&&|| u\ . \##. :u / - \ /-/ . --- | /\\ / | \\ \ --\\ ------. [[c:\usr\colin\asc-tool\test]] [this is the output from ccw90 using Joshua's cw90 output from above -.---.-- ./ \-. / .--. | \/ / / |-/ \\/|/ -(-) --- /|-.--/ \. . \ \--/ .---. \ /| ) \ \ //| | -- -- | //|| |/ \ / \ / || || | | \ \ | \| | | / | e --\\@/ |@ | --- \--/ - ( // \--/ --)| ( --< ( . .--/ &"\ e/ \--|-/--/ & | g| #. | | q# | 0 \ /ad#/ 9 \.--------.ad####/ w \#####""""""// u \&#" &# "& $ "#ba" vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv [][ as you can see ... there is an improvement in the mapping over [][ the first set of batch files that i supplied you, altho' there [][ is a loss of symetry where the 'underscore' char has been [][ translated to a 'minus' via a 'vertical-bar'. [][ the mapping now is the same as Joshua's original (but in a [][ different order to stop 'dos' and 'tr-386' complaining). [][ so perhaps in Joshua's code the 'underscore' char should only [][ get mapped to a 'bracket' and not to a 'vertical-bar'? [][ ... mebbe if i get enuf time i'll play around with it. [][ here's one i made earlier ... i've been diddling it already ... .-.-, .-\ |T| /-, .-\ \ \|T|/ / /-, |^\_ _.-\ \ \ \ |T| / / / /-,_ _/^| |\\\\ [ \ \ \ \ \|T|/ / / / / ] ////| \\ |||\ \ \ \ \ |T| / / / / /||| // )) /|| \ \ \ \ \CJR/ / / / / ||\ (( .-1\_//.|.||\ \ \ \ \// \\/ / / / /||,|,\\_/1-, .-'/1|: ::|T'\ \ \ \ \// \\/ / / / /`T|:: :|1\`-, .-'/ / ||: ::||\ \ \ \ \// \\/ / / / /||:: :|| \ \`-, ,-'/ / / /`|: :'Y| \ \ \ \// \\/ / / / |Y`: :|'\ \ \ \`-, | / / / / /|'\\\ Y|\ \ \ \'/ \`/ / / /|Y ///`|\ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / / Y ;; ;| \ \.-'' ``-,/ / |; ;; Y \ \ \ \ \| | / / / / /;: H _T\.-' `-,/T H :;\ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / / /Y__H(((__; `-, H Y\ \ \ \ \ \| | / / / / / (((__;`` | `H, J \ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / / /```H : : H `-\ \ \ \ \ \| `-/ / / .-' | Y | | Y | `-, \ \ \-' `-/-' . : | | : , `-\-' ,-\-. ' : | 17aug98 | : ` ,-/-. ,-\ \ \ '-. | A | | A | ,-` / / /-, |\ \ \ \ \ \-. H : : H ,-/ / / / / /| | \ \ \ \ \ T 'H. | | ,H` 7 / / / / / | |\ \ \ \ \ \A H '-. ,-` H A/ / / / / /| | \ \ \ \ \:: H L/'-. ,-`\L H ::/ / / / / | |\ \ \ \ \ A :: :| / /'-,. .,-`\ \ |: :: A / / / / /| | \ \ \ \ \|./// A|/ / / /.\ /,\ \ \ \|A \\\,|/ / / / / | '-.\ \ \ \,|: :.A| / / / /\\ //\ \ \ \ |A,: :|./ / / /,-` '-.\ \ ||: ::||/ / / / /\\ //\ \ \ \ \||:: :|| / /,-` '-.\1|: ::|L./ / / / /\\ //\ \ \ \ \,L|:: :|1/,-` '-1/~\\'|'||/ / / / /\\ //\ \ \ \ \||`|`//~\1-` )) \|| / / / / /TL7\ \ \ \ \ ||/ (( // |||/ / / / / |L| \ \ \ \ \||| \\ |//// [ / / / / /|L|\ \ \ \ \ ] \\\\| |v/~ '-/ / / / |L| \ \ \ \-` ~\v| '-/ / /|L|\ \ \-` '-/ |L| \-` '-'-` [][ ... abandoned ... re-diddled ... abandoned ... [][ BTW ... sed-386.exe can be used for a bit more than just trimming [][ blanks from the end of lines ... a common use i have is to remove [][ a grid of dots from a pic, thus ... type well.asc +------------------------------+ |..............................| |........o.o..........oo.......| |......o.....o.....o......o....| |.....o.......o...o........o...| |......o.....o....o........o...| |........o.o.......o......o....| |.....................oo.......| |..............................| +------------------------------+ sed-386 's/\./ /g' well.asc +------------------------------+ | | | o o oo | | o o o o | | o o o o | | o o o o | | o o o o | | oo | | | +------------------------------+ [][ i can send you the unix man-page if you like ... [][][ see yuz [][][ colin -- ( () /_ / /\) _/ /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_ CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f22e06ce68274ea2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fd588,f22e06ce68274ea2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: ASCTOOL.EXE test Date: 1998/08/23 Message-ID: <Iug...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 383820516 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 References: <35d...@news.southern.co.nz> <903...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Complaints-To: abu...@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 903849162 nnrp-08:13234 NO-IDENT shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation
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