Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 5 Jan 2000.
These are amazing
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· 4 messages · 5 Jan 2000 - 7 Jan 2000
This ascii arts are amazing. I never thought it had survived.. I remember ascii art on my C64, but what the heck, it's here, it's back... Well one qeustion: How do you do it ? Well you'll tell me it's an art.. But are there any programs to help you design art ? To convert simple graphics to ascii ? -- Alok Menghrajani Web & Windows Developer. alo...@aloksoft.hypermart.net http://aloksoft.hypermart.net/ ICQ# 56542754
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:41:49 +0100, "Alok" <alo...@softhome.net> wrote: >This ascii arts are amazing. I never thought it had survived.. I remember >ascii art on my C64, but what the heck, it's here, it's back... > >Well one qeustion: How do you do it ? Well you'll tell me it's an art.. But >are there any programs to help you design art ? To convert simple graphics >to ascii ? > > >-- >Alok Menghrajani >Web & Windows Developer. > >alo...@aloksoft.hypermart.net >http://aloksoft.hypermart.net/ >ICQ# 56542754 > > I use notepad, and type it all out s'pose most others do, or something like it. ((\))))) (|<o.\o> \ (-) ___) '~(___ __.-~---_ mikechat __)/ > O ( @ ) / /|\ )" best.com ) | ^ ^ ^| )_\ ^ ^ ( )\ ^ ^ \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~MJP~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~
Alok wrote: > > This ascii arts are amazing. I never thought it had survived.. I remember > ascii art on my C64, but what the heck, it's here, it's back... It's been here all along. It was never gone. :-) > Well one qeustion: How do you do it ? Well you'll tell me it's an art.. But > are there any programs to help you design art ? Computer, keyboard, text editor, human brain, lots of practice... > To convert simple graphics to ascii ? The "plastic bag method" is the most efficient method, IMO. The software used is your brain. You draw a picture with a pen on a plastic bag (or OH film) and tape that to the monitor. Then you try to "copy" the picture by typing ascii characters that "match" the lines on the plastic... (No, I am not joking!) -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
On 05 Jan 2000 17:54:59 EST, mik...@best.com (MJP) provoked the following text: >>This ascii arts are amazing. I never thought it had survived.. I remember >>ascii art on my C64, but what the heck, it's here, it's back... >> >>Well one qeustion: How do you do it ? Well you'll tell me it's an art.. But >>are there any programs to help you design art ? To convert simple graphics >>to ascii ? >> > I use notepad, and type it all out > s'pose most others do, or something > like it. I just draw it in my newsreader, i like it better than notepad.
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