Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 1 Dec 1994.
Talk: ASCII Xmas Card Design
alt.ascii-art
· 5 messages · 1 Dec 1994 - 20 Dec 1994
The gossip columns say Hooked on music <an1...@anon.penet.fi> wrote: >Could a brilliant ASCII artist help me create a printable Christmas >card? Here's the design: > > _______________________ >| | ^ >| <------ 80 columns -> | | >| | | | >| (an upside| | | >| down art)| | | >|-----------|-----------| 63 lines >| | | >| | | | >| | Merry | | >| | Xmas | | >| | | | >|_______________________| V > > >For the "upside-down art", I want either a beautiful Christmas Tree >or a bear or something 'warm hearted'. Of course, this will then be >folded two times to create the Christmas card. Interesting, and it got me to thinking about it. You know, since this is to be printed out, an artist could take advantage of various printing techniques. Depending on the software-hardware config, you could do overstrike printing, or play games with actual typography (changing the typefaces, size, using bold and italic, and proportional type. -- . + ' . * . . ' ) . + . . ____ _____ ___ . ____ . _____ ' .+ . * '. * / __/ /____/ /__ \ ' /__ \ '/____/ . * ' . + . '+ ' .( ( + __' . __| |.* ___) / ____' ' + . .' .' \ \' / / . ,/,/| | ./ _/. / __/ ' . ' . + : ' . * '____) )/ /__ ,/ /__| | / /\ \ / /__' _____ ____ _______' __ __ __ /_____//____//________|/_/ /_/'/____/ /____/ /__ \ '/ ___ /./ /'/ /./ / ' .+ . * ' . : __ . + ___) /. / /. / / / / / / / /. . ' * . + ' . */ /. '/ _/ / /'*/ /'/ /./ /*/ /. ' . ' ( . ' : + / /__ / /\ \'./ /__/ / / /_/ /_/ / + ' '. .+ .' * ' ./____/ /_/ /_/ /______/+/_________/ .' . * ' . ' . '+ . ' * . ' ( + '. :
Scarecrow wrote: > Interesting, and it got me to thinking about it. You know, since this >is to be printed out, an artist could take advantage of various printing >techniques. > > Depending on the software-hardware config, you could do overstrike >printing, or play games with actual typography (changing the typefaces, >size, using bold and italic, and proportional type. A long time ago (late sixties I believe) Scientific American printed a piece of ascii art (the classic reclining female nude :^) that had obviously came from a line printer. The only special technique used was to half space all the characters on the line and to halve the line spacing to substantially increase the resolution of the output. The results were quite good. The article it acompanied gave no mention of it or ascii graphics. (If someone would like to search for this magazine I'll give you a hint. It seems to me that Amture Scientist in that issue told how to make your own laser. That's at least something that would be indexed.) If someone can find me code to do this in any semi- readible language, I can probably make a portible [picture]-to-Tex c code filter out of it. Hard copy code is quite fine, if it has been published. Elijah If so
Picard the bald said that Eli the bearded <bgr...@ic.sunysb.edu> wrote: > >A long time ago (late sixties I believe) Scientific >American printed a piece of ascii art (the classic >reclining female nude :^) that had obviously came >from a line printer. The only special technique used >was to half space all the characters on the line >and to halve the line spacing to substantially >increase the resolution of the output. The results >were quite good. Remember, before Internet ASCII style art, people were making 5 bit ASCII art on teletype machines. And before that it was made typographically. And then there's the art made with tiles or light bulbs. I've even seen a huge picture made with tiles that were themselves pictures. -- .:ooooo. .d88888888" .88P" *" '88b:. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... '""*88b. .d888 .d888b ,Bo88r .8PY8 .o888 ,Bo88r ,d888b ;8@8 o8 o8P" X88.8P'*'.d8".q8" 8")8" ,8be* ,8P'*' 8"X8" ,88"*@8"88" 88' d8P .oooood88"!8. .o88 x*8".Z" db,dX8' ,X8. ,Z" db z#8. .8P 8bd88bd88P .d8888888#" '*8P" "8P" YwP" *8" '*88#' '888P" *8" *88*' #8P *8P
Bob Allison (bob...@wwa.com) wrote: : Picard the bald said that Eli the bearded <bgr...@ic.sunysb.edu> wrote: : > : >A long time ago (late sixties I believe) Scientific : >American printed a piece of ascii art (the classic : >reclining female nude :^) that had obviously came : >from a line printer. The only special technique used : >was to half space all the characters on the line : >and to halve the line spacing to substantially : >increase the resolution of the output. The results : >were quite good. : Remember, before Internet ASCII style art, people were making 5 bit : ASCII art on teletype machines. And before that it was made : typographically. And then there's the art made with tiles or light : bulbs. I've even seen a huge picture made with tiles that were : themselves pictures. I wrote a program for the Commodore 64 that could do a screen dump of a 1 bit high-res screen to a daisy-wheel printer. The printer had control codes to set the Horizonalt Motion Index (how much the head moves after it prints a character) and the Vertical Motion Index (how much the paper moves when the printer receives a line feed). You could set them as small as one point (1/72"). The period was exactly one point wide. So, I just used periods and spaces (at a fixed width HMI of one point the space caused a 1/72" movement of the print head) to draw the pictures that came out fully dense. People were amazed when I told them I had done these pictures on a daisy wheel printer. Technically, they were ASCII art because I was only using ASCII characters to print them. -- ||||||| ||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| || || || || || || || || || || || || |||| ||||||| |||||| |||||| || |||||| || || || || || || || || || || || || |||||| || || |||||| || || |||||| |||||| ||||||
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