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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 18 Oct 1999.
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Alien ascii...

Alien ascii...

alt.ascii-art · 12 messages · 18 Oct 1999 - 10 Nov 1999
http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/

Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...
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>Subject: Alien ascii...
>From: Ville Jouppi vjo...@sci.fi 
>Date: Mon, 18 October 1999 12:18 AM EDT
>Message-id: <dao...@4ax.com>
>
>http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/
>
>Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...

     Hey that's pretty damn cool. 

ObASCII:

Conversion from a scan of some of my pen art doodling.

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(-: Rand :-) <ran...@chello.nl> ASCII art 18 Oct 1999 00:00 · permalink · report
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 07:18:34 +0300 Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi> found
it necessary to say: 

>http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/
>
>Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...

WOW! This one is great!
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"Gun Control:" a solution in search of a problem. 

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:26:12 GMT, "(-: Rand :-)"
<ran...@chello.nl> wrote:

>
>On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 07:18:34 +0300 Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi> found
>it necessary to say: 
>
>>http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/
>>
>>Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...
>
>WOW! This one is great!

Yeah looks nice, but needs some heavy optimization.. Every character
has a font tag that defines it's colour.. Straight from the conversion
proggy.. :-)
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Cool!!!

Ville Jouppi wrote:

> http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/
>
> Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...
> --
>   Universal CBM, PEZ, and TI-calc nut, Scout, Glider pilot, "Student"
>         Email: vjo...@sci.fi, URL: http://www.sci.fi/~vjouppi/
>                   GSM: +358-40-5679999, IRCNet: Jope
>     "I see", said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.

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(-: Rand :-) <ran...@chello.nl> ASCII art 20 Oct 1999 00:00 · permalink · report
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 22:27:25 +0300 Ville Jouppi <vjo...@sci.fi> found
it necessary to say: 


>>>http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/
>>>Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...
>>WOW! This one is great!
>
>Yeah looks nice, but needs some heavy optimization.. Every character
>has a font tag that defines it's colour.. Straight from the conversion
>proggy.. :-)

I tried saving it to my hdd, but couldn't get to work. I thought maybe
it's just an jpg file. But I guess it isn't. Well I bookmarked it. It
seems that The Internet is my hdd! :-)
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'If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.' -- Terry Pratchett, concerning popcorn, _Moving Pictures_

: Yeah looks nice, but needs some heavy optimization.. Every character
: has a font tag that defines it's colour.. Straight from the conversion
: proggy.. :-)

Thats because it changes color for every character .. it's supposed to be that
way .. could'nt be otherwise.

jtasker@SPAMBLEDEGGSatt.net (m�spher (JT)) 21 Oct 1999 00:00 · permalink · report
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:43:12 +0200, "Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen"
<REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> wrote in message
<7uo2s4$177$3...@news.inet.tele.dk>:

>: Yeah looks nice, but needs some heavy optimization.. Every character
>: has a font tag that defines it's colour.. Straight from the conversion
>: proggy.. :-)
>
>Thats because it changes color for every character .. it's supposed to be that
>way .. could'nt be otherwise.

actually, it doesn't... look at the source... :)


m�spher.

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:20:23 GMT, jta...@SPAMBLEDEGGSatt.net (m�spher
(JT)) wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:43:12 +0200, "Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen"
><REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> wrote in message
><7uo2s4$177$3...@news.inet.tele.dk>:
>
>>: Yeah looks nice, but needs some heavy optimization.. Every character
>>: has a font tag that defines it's colour.. Straight from the conversion
>>: proggy.. :-)
>>
>>Thats because it changes color for every character .. it's supposed to be that
>>way .. could'nt be otherwise.
>
>actually, it doesn't... look at the source... :)

I've made several attempts to start optimizing it, but i just can't be
bothered.. :-D
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>Subject: Re: Alien ascii...
>From: Gunter Ohrner gun...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 
>Date: Tue, 09 November 1999 10:15 AM EST
>Message-id: <382...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
>
>"(-: Rand :-)" wrote:
>
>> >>>http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/
>> >>>Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...
>> >>WOW! This one is great!
>> I tried saving it to my hdd, but couldn't get to work. I thought maybe
>> it's just an jpg file. But I guess it isn't. Well I bookmarked it. It
>> seems that The Internet is my hdd! :-)
>
>It is an ASCII-FIle, you can select parts of it. It�d be interesting to write
>a program that converts bitmaps to
>ASCII-data...

     Email Effects will do that.

ObASCII:

*    <---A tick.
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"(-: Rand :-)" wrote:

> >>>http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/
> >>>Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...
> >>WOW! This one is great!
> I tried saving it to my hdd, but couldn't get to work. I thought maybe
> it's just an jpg file. But I guess it isn't. Well I bookmarked it. It
> seems that The Internet is my hdd! :-)

It is an ASCII-FIle, you can select parts of it. It�d be interesting to write a program that converts bitmaps to
ASCII-data...

  Gunter Ohrner

On 09 Nov 1999 23:12:36 GMT, ton...@aol.commander (The Super Happy
Karate Monkey) wrote:

>>Subject: Re: Alien ascii...
>>From: Gunter Ohrner gun...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 
>>Date: Tue, 09 November 1999 10:15 AM EST
>>Message-id: <382...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
>>
>>"(-: Rand :-)" wrote:
>>
>>> >>>http://www4.telge.kth.se/~d99_kme/
>>> >>>Check it out. Someone pasted the URL to me on IRC...
>>> >>WOW! This one is great!
>>> I tried saving it to my hdd, but couldn't get to work. I thought maybe
>>> it's just an jpg file. But I guess it isn't. Well I bookmarked it. It
>>> seems that The Internet is my hdd! :-)
>>
>>It is an ASCII-FIle, you can select parts of it. It�d be interesting to write
>>a program that converts bitmaps to
>>ASCII-data...
>
>     Email Effects will do that.
>
>ObASCII:
>
>*    <---A tick.

No, it's hairy ball!


    o
 *    *  Hairy Ball plays catch with his younger, balder brother...


 [*]   Hairy Ball listens to acid rock on his headphones.


 [*]zzzzz....  Hairy Ball begins to dream...


 **   The dream begins with Hariy Ball making love to... Himself?...


 **
  |
 / \

 Jimi Hendrix, actually...


> > > > > Oooh, very abstract...
> > > >
> > > > Heeeyyyyy...you snipped!
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I was getting tired of having 700+ line messages.
> > >
> > > Besides, I think we've annoyed the kind folk of a.a.v.f.f.f. for long enough.
> >
> > No, you haven't annoyed us for long enough yet.  I'd recommend that you keep going until the thread meets or exceeds it's previous length.
>
> Yeah! We want more hairy ball adventures!


 . hairy ball got a buzzcut.

 !  Hairy Ball gets a mohawk.

 ?  Hairy Ball's mohawk discovers the wind.  

 �  Hairy Ball's mohawk got wet and droopy.

 ./  Hairy Ball is very happy, because other balls find the droopy
 |   mohawk sexy.


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