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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 19 Apr 2001.
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my first post feedback me please

my first post feedback me please

alt.ascii-art · 10 messages · 19 Apr 2001 - 9 May 2001
jjs <jjs...@newsranger.com> ASCII art 19 Apr 2001 07:04 · permalink · report
I've been doing ascii art for while and thought I'd post a few pics until I can
set up a proper little web site. What do y'all think of these?

They were created in the lucidia console font.

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a left cross

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__________                  __,___/  ",",
___.--"          "\'.         ____/  l   \    ",'-,
------f"               // \\\        \  (l\ \    \     \ \",
|                    |||       /   u       |      \ \ \
|                    |||     _ )          /       | |  \
----L_-XXX-.             .|'    / U          <        | |  |
"\   -<_____///     \           6 )       | |  |
\___)     -"       '.       -.<"       / /   |
|'.___  |       _._."   /
|     ./     _."."   _."
/      |"----"     _."
jjs       \




more of an anime style?

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_____."   \
/\__/  l   \    \
/   (X  \   |     |
_ )   u       |     |
/ U            /     |
\           .-"     /
\         6 )     /
/       >--"     /
/      <"      _."
jjs      / "-----"
"-.  /
'."".
:. '.

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__            _M___,     C>__C>      Once again the day
c>(O O)7__   c>(O O)___   c>(O O)___     is saved by Ascii!
c>////Z3     c>////Z3     c>////Z3    John Stachowicz
jjs__________________________________________ jjs...@yahoo.com

Andreas Freise <ad...@mpq.mpg.de> ASCII art 19 Apr 2001 09:04 · permalink · report

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, jjs wrote:
> I've been doing ascii art for while and thought I'd post a few pics until I can
> set up a proper little web site. What do y'all think of these?
[snipped pics]

Someone (maybe your newsreader) is eating the spaces in front of your pic.
(I remember we had the problem and a fix, someone please repost!).

I tried to "recreate" the pictures and - hey! - it was fun. Somehow like
"drawing by numbers". You could slowly see the image shift into place.
Nice game!

I wonder if I got them completely right though :

> a left cross
                                                  __
               __________                  __,___/  ",",
        ___.--"          "\'.         ____/  l   \    ",'-,
------f"               // \\\        \  (l\ \    \     \ \",
      |                    |||       /   u       |      \ \ \
      |                    |||     _ )          /       | |  \
  ----L_-XXX-.             .|'    / U          <        | |  |
              "\   -<_____///     \           6 )       | |  |
                \___)     -"       '.       -.<"       / /   |
                                    |'.___  |       _._."   /
                                    |     ./     _."."   _."
                                   /      |"----"     _."
                                 jjs       \



> more of an anime style?

                      ___
               _____."   \
          /\__/  l   \    \
         /   (X  \   |     |
       _ )   u       |     |
      / U            /     |
      \           .-"     /
       \         6 )     /
       /       >--"     /
      /      <"      _."
   jjs      / "-----"
      "-.  /
       '."".
         :. '.


Yes. Post more! 

:)
Andreas
                                                                      
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________________________________ /_oo=oO_  c-c'____________________a:f
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise        http://www.ascii-art.de
 

sara wallen <mis...@btconnect.com> ASCII art 19 Apr 2001 09:31 · permalink · report
,--- jjs <jjs...@newsranger.com> wrote ---
| 
| 
'---

Just doing a little repair work...

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| 
| a left cross
| 
|                                                   __
|                __________                  __,___/  ",",
|         ___.--"          "\'.         ____/  l   \    ",'-,
| ------f"               // \\\        \  (l\ \    \     \ \",
|       |                    |||       /   u       |      \ \ \
|       |                    |||     _ )          /       | |  \
|   ----L_-XXX-.             .|'    / U          <        | |  |
|               "\   -<_____///     \           6 )       | |  |
|                 \___)     -"       '.       -.<"       / /   |
|                                     |'.___  |       _._."   /
|                                     |     ./     _."."   _."
|                                    /      |"----"     _."
|                                 jjs       \
| 
| 
| 
| 
| more of an anime style?
| 
|                        ___
|                 _____."   \
|            /\__/  l   \    \
|           /   (X  \   |     |
|         _ )   u       |     |
|        / U            /     |
|        \           .-"     /
|         \         6 )     /
|         /       >--"     /
|        /      <"      _."
|     jjs      / "-----"
|        "-.  /
|           '."".
|                :. '.
| 
'---

Excellent!

-- 
      Sara J. Wallen, mailto:sara(a)wallen.as  ^_^
 ^_^  http://www.sara.wallen.as/ ICQ:32690270

jjs <jjs...@newsranger.com> 19 Apr 2001 10:13 · permalink · report
In article <9ub...@4ax.com>, sara wallen says...>
>-- 
>      Sara J. Wallen, mailto:sara(a)wallen.as  ^_^
> ^_^  http://www.sara.wallen.as/ ICQ:32690270


Thanks for the fix and the good word.

jjs <jjs...@newsranger.com> 19 Apr 2001 10:14 · permalink · report
In article <9ub...@4ax.com>, sara wallen says...>
>-- 
>      Sara J. Wallen, mailto:sara(a)wallen.as  ^_^
> ^_^  http://www.sara.wallen.as/ ICQ:32690270


Thanks for the fix and the good word.

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:04:57 +0200, Andreas Freise <ad...@mpq.mpg.de>
wrote:

>
>
>On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, jjs wrote:
>> I've been doing ascii art for while and thought I'd post a few pics until I can
>> set up a proper little web site. What do y'all think of these?
>[snipped pics]
>
>Someone (maybe your newsreader) is eating the spaces in front of your pic.
>(I remember we had the problem and a fix, someone please repost!).
>
>I tried to "recreate" the pictures and - hey! - it was fun. Somehow like
>"drawing by numbers". You could slowly see the image shift into place.
>Nice game!

Somebody please program an ascii art game where you have to shift
lines or correct wrong tabs or non-ascii characters heheh and even
more tasks to think of....

that would be FUN! ascii art out of the group could be used (after
asking the artists) and there could be a micro ascii art quiz ;) like
...what does this micro ascii art show and then a multiple choice ;)

heheh
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Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@24.177.56.253> ASCII art 25 Apr 2001 09:28 · permalink · report
--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
		--(lastfuture said it like only they can.)--
> 
> Somebody please program an ascii art game where you have to shift
> lines or correct wrong tabs or non-ascii characters heheh and even
> more tasks to think of....


That sounds like a realy very simple programe to right.
teach it what is alowed in ascii art and what is not.
create a algarithm for each
use the first one to see if you got it right
use the second one to tweek correct ones to make randome game "boards"
this actualy sounds like a job for emacs lisp.


-- 
--(UIN=66618055)--
--(tty1@faux.local_04:45_/home/faux)-- cat .sig
GUI's are for slackers.  ibpconf.sh 6.1 on freshmeat.net  
The easiest way to customize the command line.  By Faux_Pseudo

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
        - Andrew Jackson

So is anybody going to try making that?  Are you a programmer
Faux_Pseudo?  Programming those algorithms seems like quite a task.  I
don't even know how you would begin.  What are some examples of what is
allowed in ascii-art that the program AI could actually do?  Likewise
what is not?  I know that a tab is not allowed, others?  You see
ascii-art is so different to each artist.  It would be very hard to say
this is what you can and can't do because each artist likes it to look
different.  Does anybody have some set rules that would work, or that
program may never be.

Kyle

Faux_Pseudo wrote:
> 
> --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
>                 --(lastfuture said it like only they can.)--
> >
> > Somebody please program an ascii art game where you have to shift
> > lines or correct wrong tabs or non-ascii characters heheh and even
> > more tasks to think of....
> 
> That sounds like a realy very simple programe to right.
> teach it what is alowed in ascii art and what is not.
> create a algarithm for each
> use the first one to see if you got it right
> use the second one to tweek correct ones to make randome game "boards"
> this actualy sounds like a job for emacs lisp.
> 
> --
> --(UIN=66618055)--
> --(tty1@faux.local_04:45_/home/faux)-- cat .sig
> GUI's are for slackers.  ibpconf.sh 6.1 on freshmeat.net
> The easiest way to customize the command line.  By Faux_Pseudo

Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@24.177.56.253> ASCII art 28 Apr 2001 08:12 · permalink · report
I program mostly in bash which is a scrip language found on all linux
systems.
It is not suited for that kind of work.
it would best be done in something like perl or c

as far as the algorithms go most any ascii-art faq will have a list of
usable charicters and you can use one of those lists to start from.

this is a sample script i only put about 8 minutes in but any bash
user should be able to make out what the idea is.

for char in $(cat $buffer | sed 's/\([[:print:]]\)/\
\1/g') ; do
   if [ ! $(echo $char | egrep [[:print:]] ) ] ; then 
      echo "You have a invalid ascii char in your drawing"
      echo "Try it again" ; sleep 1
      load_current_buffer
   fi
done

echo "You got it right" 
go_to_next_level_of_game ; exit 0


--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
		--(Kyle Baker said it like only they can.)--
> So is anybody going to try making that?  Are you a programmer
> Faux_Pseudo?  Programming those algorithms seems like quite a task.  I
> don't even know how you would begin.  What are some examples of what is
> allowed in ascii-art that the program AI could actually do?  Likewise
> what is not?  I know that a tab is not allowed, others?  You see
> ascii-art is so different to each artist.  It would be very hard to say
> this is what you can and can't do because each artist likes it to look
> different.  Does anybody have some set rules that would work, or that
> program may never be.
> 
> Kyle
> 



-- 
--(UIN=66618055)--
--(tty1@faux.local_04:45_/home/faux)-- cat .sig
GUI's are for slackers.  ibpconf.sh 6.1 on freshmeat.net  
The easiest way to customize the command line.  By Faux_Pseudo

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
        - Andrew Jackson

Albert Brandl <alb...@lindeverlag.at> ASCII art 9 May 2001 08:22 · permalink · report
> Somebody please program an ascii art game where you have to shift
> lines or correct wrong tabs or non-ascii characters heheh and even
> more tasks to think of....

> that would be FUN! ascii art out of the group could be used (after
> asking the artists) and there could be a micro ascii art quiz ;) like
> ...what does this micro ascii art show and then a multiple choice ;)

> heheh

it's quite easy to program such a thing. below is python code which
permutes a simple ascii picture and asks the user to find out the 
original picture. it's not hard to modify the program such that it
permutes a text file containing some ascii-art - if you are interested,
please mail me.

	have fun!

		albert

ps: python can be obtained from www.python.org. its easy to install
(interpreters exist for various platforms) and a very good language for
this kind of stuff.


---snip---

#! /usr/bin/env python

import random
import string

def permute(l):
    """ returns a permutation of the list l which is different from l"""

    l1 = l[:]
    while l1 == l:
        length = len(l1)
        for idx in range(length):
            rnd = random.randrange(0, length)
            temp = l1[0]
            l1[0] = l1[rnd]
            l1[rnd] = temp
    return l1



def showRiddle(pic, riddle):
    """ presents the permuted strings and asks the user to find the original
    permutation"""
    
    while riddle != pic:
        for idx in range(len(riddle)):
            print idx, riddle[idx]

        combination=string.split(raw_input(
            "Enter is the right combination (e.g. 3 2 1 0 4): "))

        new_riddle = [""] * len(riddle)
        for idx in range(len(combination)):
            new_riddle[idx] = riddle[string.atoi(combination[idx])]
        riddle = new_riddle

    print
    print "Congratulations! You have found the right combination:"
    print

    for item in riddle: print item


def main():
    """main function - initializes picture and permutation, calls
    showRiddle to present the riddle"""
    
    pic = ["+---+",
           "|b b|",
           "| u |",
           "| o |",
           "+---+"]

    riddle = permute(pic)
    showRiddle(pic, riddle)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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