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Venusian R. comedy,REQUEST ASCII-ART ELECTRON CLOUD DOT PICT

Venusian R. comedy,REQUEST ASCII-ART ELECTRON CLOUD DOT PICTURE

alt.ascii-art · 12 messages · 18 Jun 1994 - 2 Jul 1994
Ludwig Plutonium <Lud...@dartmouth.edu> ASCII art 18 Jun 1994 15:08 · permalink
In article <CrK...@world.std.com>
DPi...@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce) writes:

> In article <2tto29$k1...@gap.cco.caltech.edu> pal...@alumni.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer) writes:
> >>Ludwig Plutonium considered the HST discovery of large amounts of
> >>HyPe in M87 and SN 1987A:
> >
> >>|>   It was not coincidental that Hubble would see 1987A, and M87 at the
> >>|> same time in physics history, nor is it coincidental that  both are
> >>|> numbers of 87.
> >
> >I, Pierre Francium, am now ready to reveal the TRUTH.  The entire
> >PolyVerse is a VIRTUAL PHOTON which is forming the electromagnetic force
> >which is binding an electron to the nucleus of an ATOM OF FRANCIUM,
> >ELEMENT 87.
> 
> NO, you are all idiot dull tools of the physics establishment mind 
> dulling machine!
> 
> The real truth is that the universe of Abian and Ludwig and Huey, Dewey
> and Luey B. Larson is really a colloidal suspension of arsenic, sulfur,
> tungsten, iodine, phosphorous and einsteinium. This collection of
> brilliant As S W I P Es is one reason why Venus needs to be made into a
> new earth on the 84th orbital. When we hear from the likes of Ludwig
> Plutonium, we are confused because he is as if he is in a universe of his
> own, floating about in a plasmoid cosmic vocalizing mixture of flourine,
> uranium, carbon, potassium and helium, because it is difficult to see
> what F U C K He is talking about. 
> 
> And, by the way, you unthinking moronic hero worshipers of the so-called 
> scientific great, the word is TRVTH, not TRUTH. I know, because that's 
> what I saw on some big buildings in Washington.

  The irony I was struck with by reading the above comedy is that a
person can turn chemical symbols into words and vice versa. But try to
make an electron cloud dot pictures on the INTERNET is too difficult. I
again plea for anyone to make electron cloud dot pictures ascii art.
The below are useful texts to refer to electron cloud dot pictures.
 INTRODUCTION TO ATOMIC SPECTRA by Harvey White 1934. It is a shame
they do not print this book any longer. On page 71 it shows twenty four
pictures of hydrogen electron clouds. One of them is the 5f6, the one
which looks like a human being or two humans close together. For the
first time, humanity can draw a picture likeness of our Maker. One
thing is sure of the drawing, it will be symmetrical.

The book QUANTA by Atkins 1991 page 119 shows f orbitals shapes. A
drawer would have to do a dot pattern.

PHYSICS part 2 Halliday & Resnick Extended Version 1986 page 572 with
enlarged view of nucleus. I would want also an enlarged view of the
Solar System  as dots with the Sun as the biggest dot and Jupiter the
next largest. Such a dot picture would have to get the Solar System in
correct still picture pattern which is difficult to do in ascii-art due
to the constraints of the keyboard. And an artist would do an enlarged
dot picture of the night sky showing the Dippers and Sirius,
Betelgeuse, etc. as part of the 5f6.

Journal of Chemical Education Vol 65 Number 1 Jan 1988 pages 31-33
"Order out of Chaos:Shapes of Hydrogen Orbitals" by G.L.Breneman. These
pictures are perhaps good as a summary of shapes.

5th edition 1991 Chemistry the Central Science by Brown, LeMay, Bursten
pages 188-189 for good electron cloud dot pictures.

Principles of Modern Chemistry by Oxtoby, Nachtrieb 1990 2nd edition
page 504 has angular and radial parts of wavefunction for one-electron
atoms. For those math inclined can see where I pulled the nodes from in
my crude ascii-art drawing. Then from pages 505-507 contains good
electron cloud dot pictures.

   I hope the above is enough to get some artists to do their
interpretation of the 5f6. Anyone doing art work of the 5f6, please put
your name or initials in the corner so that when others copy paste your
work that you have the credit. This is the usual form of credit for
art, similar to credit when someone copy-reposts anothers writing.
                       94th ELECTRON OF 231PU
               Very crude dot picture of 5f6, 94TH ELECTRON

                  \ ::| :./.
                  .\::|::/.:
                     _ _
                    (:Y:)
                     - - 
                  ::/.|.\.:
                :: /.:| :\.:
                  /   |   \.
                          LP
        One of those dots is the Sun with 9 smaller dots around it.
Look in a chemistry textbook or quantum physics textbook of the
electron cloud dot picture. 

In article <2tv2ll$ge...@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Lud...@dartmouth.edu (Ludwig Plutonium) writes:
>
>  The irony I was struck with by reading the above comedy is that a
>person can turn chemical symbols into words and vice versa. But try to
>make an electron cloud dot pictures on the INTERNET is too difficult. 

That's because, Ludwig, you haven't got a clue as to what the hell you are
talking about. It's also because it's hard to render any impression when
the rendition tools you are most skilled at are blunt scissors, crayons
and edible library past.

But, you are simply part of the comedy, yes?


-- 
|                Dick Pierce                |
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| 17 Sartelle Street   Pepperell, MA  01463 |
|       (508) 433-9183 (Voice and FAX)      |

In article <CrL...@world.std.com>
DPi...@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce) writes:

> That's because, Ludwig, you haven't got a clue as to what the hell you are
> talking about. It's also because it's hard to render any impression when
> the rendition tools you are most skilled at are blunt scissors, crayons
> and edible library past.
> 
> But, you are simply part of the comedy, yes?

 I say "go to hell" with flare. 
Pu,PLuto, condemn the photon soul of Richard D Pierce to the River
Acheron. ATOM.

In article <2tvmo7$rk...@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Lud...@dartmouth.edu (Ludwig Plutonium) writes:
>In article <CrL...@world.std.com>
>> But, you are simply part of the comedy, yes?
>
> I say "go to hell" with flare. 
>Pu,PLuto, condemn the photon soul of Richard D Pierce to the River
>Acheron. ATOM.

Oooo! Ouch! That REALLY hurt! I haven't heard such clever retorts that
since 5th grade, a long, long time ago for me, probably a matter of weeks
for you. 

Arrogance in defense of ignorance is hardly a virtue. With you Pludwig, it 
looks more like a life-long ambition and serious career choice, eh?

Keep us laughing...

Clear skies to all, and, to Ludwig, Clearosil.

-- 
|                Dick Pierce                |
|     Loudspeaker and Software Consulting   |
| 17 Sartelle Street   Pepperell, MA  01463 |
|       (508) 433-9183 (Voice and FAX)      |

>  The irony I was struck with by reading the above comedy is that a
>person can turn chemical symbols into words and vice versa. But try to
>make an electron cloud dot pictures on the INTERNET is too difficult. I
>again plea for anyone to make electron cloud dot pictures ascii art.
>The below are useful texts to refer to electron cloud dot pictures.
>INTRODUCTION TO ATOMIC SPECTRA by Harvey White 1934. It is a shame
>they do not print this book any longer.

If you can get your image scanned in and converted to a GIF then there is a
program for converting these to ascii.  The result may not be prefect, but
it will be a good starting point.  Post that on a.a-a and I expect someone
will rise to the challenge of hand-diddling the thing to look good.  However
to expect them to hunt out a book that's been sixty years out of print 
seems a bit mean.

>On page 71 it shows twenty four
>pictures of hydrogen electron clouds. One of them is the 5f6, the one
>which looks like a human being or two humans close together.

The shapes are rather fun, but the are hardly ever assumed by real electrons.
If something has electrons up to 5f6, it is probably a metal, and the outer 
electrons all part of the conduction band.  Unless it is hydrogen I don't
think we have an exact theory about orbital shapes - we have to do Hartree-
Fock (?sp) -type calculations, so there are interesting possibilities of other
energy minima with (say) dodecahedral symmetry that our iterations have never
found.  Anyway the electrons would only form those nice shapes if you had an 
isolated atom suspended in dark space, in which case you couldn't prove they 
were there.

>The book QUANTA by Atkins 1991 page 119 shows f orbitals shapes. A
>drawer would have to do a dot pattern.
>
>PHYSICS part 2 Halliday & Resnick Extended Version 1986 page 572 with
>enlarged view of nucleus.

These are a bit better than the earlier reference, but I haven't got those 
either.  You scan the pictures, and we'll diddle them if they look fun, okay?

Humble opinion: I think some of the religous fervour, mysticism, and
general heavy-duty weirdness sloshing around these postings puts people 
off a bit.  Especially when cross-posting.

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Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz> ASCII art 20 Jun 1994 19:05 · permalink
Ludwig Plutonium (Lud...@dartmouth.edu) wrote:

LP>
             94th ELECTRON OF 231PU
  Very crude dot picture of 5f6, 94TH ELECTRON

                  \ ::| :./.
                  .\::|::/.:
                     _ _
                    (:Y:)
                     - -
                  ::/.|.\.:
                :: /.:| :\.:
                  /   |   \.
                          LP
LP>


LP> On page 71 it shows twenty four pictures of hydrogen electron 
clouds.  

LP> One of them is the 5f6, the one which looks like a human being 
LP> or two humans close together.  


You know what Plutonium ?  You might just have to settle for your 
own version of this 94th Electron. The ascii-artists do not seem 
interested in hydrogen electron clouds. 

Your picture doesn't look too bad to me but rather lacking in symmetry.  


Here is the best I can do for an electron cloud:

        *    .             .       . . . .   .   .  + .  .       .
   .       .                   .  ..  +  . . .              .      .  .
           .  .   .      +   .. .                        .          +
              +                   .     . *.    +      .         .
    .            .    *      .     .                +              . .
      . .         .        .   .     . .     .     .  .   .    .   +
  .        +      .    +  . + + .  .      +        .    .    .       *
               *          .     .       .     . * .        .       .
      .         .        . :   : .   +    .  + . . +     +     .       .
           .     ..   . +        .  .  .     .  .  .        .    *
        *           . .  .  *    .  .    .  . .   . .    *            .
          .     .  .  . .         . . +   .     *     .          +  .
       .  .  .  *   . . .   +     . .  *  .  .     .  .    .          . .
            . .  .    .  .    +  .  +    .  .       .  .        .       .
              .   .   .  .     .    .   .   .    +  .   ..    +    *    .
        *    .         + .   .   . *    .  .   .     .  .       .       .
   .       .     .   *   .       .       ..   *       ..    .      .  .
           .  .   .          .   .   .    .           .  .           +
              +      +   .       .     .  .. + . . + ..          .
    .            .       .   .      . .  *   .     .               . .
      . .         .  *   .       .  +. +  .  .   + .      .    .        +
  .        +      .      .   .   .    .  .   +  .  .                 *
               *      .  .       .           .  .  .       .       .
      .         .        . * . * .   +       .  :  .                    .
           .     ..    .     . .   .   .  .                      *
        *           .    . .  +    .  . . +      +  .    *          .
          .     .  . .      . .  *  .  .    .   .  .    .       +  .
            +  . + .  .  .  +.    .  .           +             .  .  .
       .  .  .  *   .  *  .   .  .         .*        .   + .         . .
            . .  ..  ..   . . .+  ..  * . .   +  .    .   -cfbd-   .



You are forgiven if your imagination leads you to think there may be 
a hint of human forms, in close proximity, in this random electron 
cloud.  

It is a little like staring into the embers of a glowing fire, or 
the abstract design of a patterned carpet, and seeing many wondrous 
shapes and forms depending on one's mood and imagination.  
How often we see only what we want to see and hear only what we 
want to hear.

Keep up your search for symmetry in this seemingly random Universe. 

Perhaps it is humanity's destiny to create symmetry from random chaos,
THE answer to The Meaning of Life, The Universe, and All That :-)


Bye,

Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) writes:

>Here is the best I can do for an electron cloud:

>        *    .             .       . . . .   .   .  + .  .       .
>   .       .                   .  ..  +  . . .              .      .  .
>           .  .   .      +   .. .                        .          +
>              +                   .     . *.    +      .         .
>    .            .    *      .     .                +              . .
>      . .         .        .   .     . .     .     .  .   .    .   +
>  .        +      .    +  . + + .  .      +        .    .    .       *
>               *          .     .       .     . * .        .       .
>      .         .        . :   : .   +    .  + . . +     +     .       .
>           .     ..   . +        .  .  .     .  .  .        .    *
>        *           . .  .  *    .  .    .  . .   . .    *            .
>          .     .  .  . .         . . +   .     *     .          +  .
>       .  .  .  *   . . .   +     . .  *  .  .     .  .    .          . .
>            . .  .    .  .    +  .  +    .  .       .  .        .       .
>              .   .   .  .     .    .   .   .    +  .   ..    +    *    .
>        *    .         + .   .   . *    .  .   .     .  .       .       .
>   .       .     .   *   .       .       ..   *       ..    .      .  .
>           .  .   .          .   .   .    .           .  .           +
>              +      +   .       .     .  .. + . . + ..          .
>    .            .       .   .      . .  *   .     .               . .
>      . .         .  *   .       .  +. +  .  .   + .      .    .        +
>  .        +      .      .   .   .    .  .   +  .  .                 *
>               *      .  .       .           .  .  .       .       .
>      .         .        . * . * .   +       .  :  .                    .
>           .     ..    .     . .   .   .  .                      *
>        *           .    . .  +    .  . . +      +  .    *          .
>          .     .  . .      . .  *  .  .    .   .  .    .       +  .
>            +  . + .  .  .  +.    .  .           +             .  .  .
>       .  .  .  *   .  *  .   .  .         .*        .   + .         . .
>            . .  ..  ..   . . .+  ..  * . .   +  .    .   -cfbd-   .



>You are forgiven if your imagination leads you to think there may be 
>a hint of human forms, in close proximity, in this random electron 
>cloud.  

>It is a little like staring into the embers of a glowing fire, or 
>the abstract design of a patterned carpet, and seeing many wondrous 
>shapes and forms depending on one's mood and imagination.  
>How often we see only what we want to see and hear only what we 
>want to hear.

>Keep up your search for symmetry in this seemingly random Universe. 

>Perhaps it is humanity's destiny to create symmetry from random chaos,
>THE answer to The Meaning of Life, The Universe, and All That :-)

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In article <Col...@equinox.gen.nz>
Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) writes:

> Ludwig Plutonium (Lud...@dartmouth.edu) wrote:
> 
> LP>
>              94th ELECTRON OF 231PU
>   Very crude dot picture of 5f6, 94TH ELECTRON
> 
>                   \ ::| :./.
>                   .\::|::/.:
>                      _ _
>                     (:Y:)
>                      - -
>                   ::/.|.\.:
>                 :: /.:| :\.:
>                   /   |   \.
>                           LP
> LP>
> 
> 
> LP> On page 71 it shows twenty four pictures of hydrogen electron 
> clouds.  
> 
> LP> One of them is the 5f6, the one which looks like a human being 
> LP> or two humans close together.  
> 
> 
> You know what Plutonium ?  You might just have to settle for your 
> own version of this 94th Electron. The ascii-artists do not seem 
> interested in hydrogen electron clouds. 
> 
> Your picture doesn't look too bad to me but rather lacking in symmetry.  
> 
> 
> Here is the best I can do for an electron cloud:
> 
>         *    .             .       . . . .   .   .  + .  .       .
>    .       .                   .  ..  +  . . .              .      .  .
>            .  .   .      +   .. .                        .          +
>               +                   .     . *.    +      .         .
>     .            .    *      .     .                +              . .
>       . .         .        .   .     . .     .     .  .   .    .   +
>   .        +      .    +  . + + .  .      +        .    .    .       *
>                *          .     .       .     . * .        .       .
>       .         .        . :   : .   +    .  + . . +     +     .       .
>            .     ..   . +        .  .  .     .  .  .        .    *
>         *           . .  .  *    .  .    .  . .   . .    *            .
>           .     .  .  . .         . . +   .     *     .          +  .
>        .  .  .  *   . . .   +     . .  *  .  .     .  .    .          . .
>             . .  .    .  .    +  .  +    .  .       .  .        .       .
>               .   .   .  .     .    .   .   .    +  .   ..    +    *    .
>         *    .         + .   .   . *    .  .   .     .  .       .       .
>    .       .     .   *   .       .       ..   *       ..    .      .  .
>            .  .   .          .   .   .    .           .  .           +
>               +      +   .       .     .  .. + . . + ..          .
>     .            .       .   .      . .  *   .     .               . .
>       . .         .  *   .       .  +. +  .  .   + .      .    .        +
>   .        +      .      .   .   .    .  .   +  .  .                 *
>                *      .  .       .           .  .  .       .       .
>       .         .        . * . * .   +       .  :  .                    .
>            .     ..    .     . .   .   .  .                      *
>         *           .    . .  +    .  . . +      +  .    *          .
>           .     .  . .      . .  *  .  .    .   .  .    .       +  .
>             +  . + .  .  .  +.    .  .           +             .  .  .
>        .  .  .  *   .  *  .   .  .         .*        .   + .         . .
>             . .  ..  ..   . . .+  ..  * . .   +  .    .   -cfbd-   .
> 
> 
> 
> You are forgiven if your imagination leads you to think there may be 
> a hint of human forms, in close proximity, in this random electron 
> cloud.  
> 
> It is a little like staring into the embers of a glowing fire, or 
> the abstract design of a patterned carpet, and seeing many wondrous 
> shapes and forms depending on one's mood and imagination.  
> How often we see only what we want to see and hear only what we 
> want to hear.
> 
> Keep up your search for symmetry in this seemingly random Universe. 
> 
> Perhaps it is humanity's destiny to create symmetry from random chaos,
> THE answer to The Meaning of Life, The Universe, and All That :-)
> 
> 
> Bye,

   Thanks that is pretty. I like it. The trouble in making electron
cloud dot pictures is that the dots are all patterned. There is no
randomness or continuity, just like the atom totality, all is in place
and constrained. I have tried in my mind to see if I this computer art
disallows the making of a nearly exact Solar System to scale with the
planets in correct distance to scale and place in orbit, as part of the
picture of the front cover of my book. As well as the northern
hemisphere of stars which is easier I suspect.

 Here is a first try of the Sun and first five planets. Poor.
                  *     '
                           '
                             '
                           @&@ .
                           &#@

In article <2tv2ll$ge...@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Lud...@dartmouth.edu (Ludwig Plutonium) writes:

   The irony I was struck with by reading the above comedy is that a
   person can turn chemical symbols into words and vice versa.

Speaking of which, has anyone ever noticed that the chemical symbols
for elements 17, 18, and 19 (chlorine, argon, and potassium) -
consecutively on the periodic table - spell ClArK (and right below
them is Krypton).

Catcha' later,
Paul.

Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz> ASCII art 26 Jun 1994 20:04 · permalink
Ludwig Plutonium (Lud...@dartmouth.edu) wrote:
: In article <Col...@equinox.gen.nz>
: Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) writes:

: > Ludwig Plutonium (Lud...@dartmouth.edu) wrote:
: > 
: > LP>
: >              94th ELECTRON OF 231PU
: >   Very crude dot picture of 5f6, 94TH ELECTRON
: > 
: >                   \ ::| :./.
: >                   .\::|::/.:
: >                      _ _
: >                     (:Y:)
: >                      - -
: >                   ::/.|.\.:
: >                 :: /.:| :\.:
: >                   /   |   \.
: >                           LP
: > LP>
: > 
: > 
: > LP> On page 71 it shows twenty four pictures of hydrogen electron 
: > clouds.  
: > 
: > LP> One of them is the 5f6, the one which looks like a human being 
: > LP> or two humans close together.  
: > 


:  Here is a first try of the Sun and first five planets. Poor.
:                   *     '
:                            '
:                              '
:                            @&@ .
:                            &#@



Your 94th Electron was much better.


In considering your ascii Solar System you would be wise to restrict 
yourself to a matrix no more than 75 columns wide by 25 rows deep. 
This will almost fill an older type 80 x 25 monitor screen and the 
75 width will avoid the possibility of picture distortions due to 
linewrapping.

So there you have it - a 75 x 25 rectangle to plan your Solar 
System. It will not be easy to get exact relationships between 
relative planet sizes, positions and distances - but there's the 
challenge - go to it !!


                         75 column x 25 row matrix

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You may also wish to consider the illusory world of 3-D in your 
pictures using the technique denmonstrated below:

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From: Mikko Kartano

The worlds first 3-D .sig!  +            .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Look at the picture on the  +         :    :    :    :    :    :    :
right cross-eyed and really +      3     3     3     3     3     3     3
_really_ close.             +   D      D      D      D      D      D      D

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Bye,

Todd D. Hale <tha...@novell.com> ASCII art 28 Jun 1994 19:59 · permalink
>From: Mikko Kartano

>The worlds first 3-D .sig!  +            .   .   .   .   .   .   .
>Look at the picture on the  +         :    :    :    :    :    :    :
>right cross-eyed and really +      3     3     3     3     3     3     3
>_really_ close.             +   D      D      D      D      D      D      D


There are several 3-D sigs around.  Here's one I diddled last week:



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Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz> ASCII art 2 Jul 1994 05:49 · permalink
Paul Foerster (pau...@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:
: In article <2udhld$il...@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Lud...@dartmouth.edu (Ludwig Plutonium) writes:
: [big INTRODUCTION TO ATOMIC SPECTRA thread deleted]

: >  Sorry but I no longer have access to a scanner. But I must say what I
: >feel towards computer art. That if I can make a picture in 1 minute by
: >free hand, then I will not spend 2 hours with a computer to try to get
: >a better picture thereof.  And I feel that a computer program which
: >requires a long time to learn versus how often that program is used
: >must be decided before time is wasted. People say "hey have you seen
: >the new blah blah art program, sit down and let me show you how it
: >works". I refuse to sit down because I feel I will never use it. I find
: >computers great for word processing, but horrible wasters of time for
: >computer games and even worse than TV on that point. I believe the
: >trade-off of time spent versus better picture by hand is not sound. My
: >history of computer art is a dismal record of time wasted.
: >  As for the INTERNET, there is no freehand drawing, we are all at the
: >mercy of computer keyboard art.
: [electron cloud dot picture deleted]

: ... so if this is your opinion on what computers can be used for then please 
: do me the favor and tell me what you're doing here. You can draw letters much 
: faster by hand. So there is no use for figlet. You can draw everything much 
: better, faster and more accurate with a pen on a paper. So there is no use 
: for a computer anyway. And you even have no problems with the loss of data by 
: a hard disk crash or things like that.


I don't think Ludwig Plutonium will be able to reply to your 
posting. Apparently his account has been terminated or suspended 
after complaints against something he wrote about the " New York 
Times ".

What both you and Ludwig fail to acknowledge is that pen & paperwork 
cannot be propagated with the ease of Internet material.




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