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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 24 Apr 1998.
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Pentagrams?

Pentagrams?

alt.ascii-art · 2 messages · 24 Apr 1998
Niilo Paasivirta <n...@kanto.cc.jyu.fi> ASCII art 24 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report 
A pentagram is difficult - especially a small one. Here are the
smallest half-decent pentagrams I managed to do:

          M
         M M
     "M""M"M""M"       That is not very good...
       "M   M"
        Mo oM
       M ,", M
       M"   "M


               M
              M M
              M M
             M   M
     ""M""""M"""""M"""""M"       This actually looks like one.
        "o  M     M  o""
          "Mo     oM"
           M "ooo" M
          M  o"""o  M
         oMo"     ""Mo
         "           "

Anything smaller becomes unrecognizable:

Is there a way to do, say 5x5 characters, pentagram?!?

         _/\_    <---- doesn't look anything like one,
         �'`�          besides '�' is not ascii...
          '`
-- 
 <a href="http://www.jyu.fi/%7Enp/index.html">	Niilo Paasivirta	</a>
John Savard <jsa...@teneerf.edmonton.ab.ca> ASCII art 24 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report 
n...@kanto.cc.jyu.fi (Niilo Paasivirta) wrote:

>Is there a way to do, say 5x5 characters, pentagram?!?

Hmm. First, I'd try to use only / and \ with _ and no M's to get it
smaller..but the two more gently sloping lines would be a problem.
     /\
 ___/__\___
  -/_  _\-
  / _--_ \
 /_-    -_\

suggests the shape, is fairly small (5 high, 10 wide), but is clearly
badly proportioned.

      /\
 ____/__\____
  --/_  _\--
   / _--_ \
  /--    --\

comes a bit closer. (5 high, 12 wide)

If we try using a larger choice of characters, we can come even
closer:

      /\
 ____/__\____
  "-/_  _\-"
   / _--_ \
  /.-    -.\

John Savard

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