TALK : isometric cube...how?

Last week I was asked to produce a .sig for the student television 
station of which I am a member. For the sig I decided to attempt the 
stations logo, an exploded isometric projection of a cube!

for those that didn't do any basic tech drawing then this 
basically means three sides of the cube visible, top and two upright 
sides, with an upright edge closest to you. To be isometric (in the same 
meaning that I was taught) the verticals are vertical (!) but the none 
vertical edges  should be at thirty degrees to the horizontal. The 
exploded bit just means the sides are then seperated by a small gap.

so far this is my attempt...

BEGIN SIG
			      _  _/_ 
	   _.-'-._	(  / ( ` /  (  /	Mail:YSTV
	.-'       '-.	 \/ ,_) (_,  \/		     Goodricke College,
       :.`-._   _.-'.:	_/   York Student 	     University of York,
       | `-._`-'_.-' | 	      Television	     Heslington,
       |     | |     |				     York
       |     | |     |	 Email:-		     YO1 5DD
        `-._ | | _.-'	    yst...@unix.york.ac.uk
            `' `'	
	^its a exploded, isometric
	projection of a cube (honest)..and its our logo!

END SIG

I was just curious to see if any of you ascii experts could provide any 
better representation of the cube bit?? (the rest I am happy with)

Thanks
Adam


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Adam P Baxter:
>                              _  _/_
>           _.-'-._      (  / ( ` /  (  /        Mail:YSTV
>        .-'       '-.    \/ ,_) (_,  \/              Goodricke College,
>       :.`-._   _.-'.:  _/   York Student            University of York,
>       | `-._`-'_.-' |        Television             Heslington,
>       |     | |     |                               York
>       |     | |     |   Email:-                     YO1 5DD
>        `-._ | | _.-'       yst...@unix.york.ac.uk
>            `' `'
>        ^its a exploded, isometric
>        projection of a cube (honest)..and its our logo!

Well, the usual way of doing isometrics in ascii is on a slant:
        _________
        \        \
    /\   \        \
   /  \   \        \
  /    \   \________\
 /      \
 \      /   _________
  \    /   /        /
   \  /   /        /
    \/   /        /
        /________/

but this is no good for your logo.  I think what you came up with is
about the best you can do with thin lines.

You might consider trying a solid technique, like this:
          ,
       ,a888a,
     a888888888a
      `Y88888P'
    8a,  `8'  ,a8
    8888a, ,a8888
    888888 888888
    888888 888888
     `Y888 888P'
        `Y P'

Hmm.  The angles are a little off, but you get the idea.  If your logo
is supposed to be made of lines, not solids, then you can try using
negative space:

88888888888888888888888
8888888888P'Y8888888888
8888888P',a8a,`Y8888888
8888P',a8888888a,`Y8888
8888 8888888888888 8888
8888a,`Y8888888P',a8888
888 `Y8a,`Y8P',a8P' 888
888 8a,`Y8a,a8P',a8 888
888 8888a,`8',a8888 888
888 888888 8 888888 888
888 888888 8 888888 888
888a,`Y888 8 888P',a888
888888a,`Y 8 P',a888888
888888888a,8,a888888888
88888888888888888888888

though this may not work well if you make it much smaller than this.

(The pun quiz for today.  Fill in the blank:
   The usual way of doing isometrics in ascii is with ___________ .
And draw your answer.)
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