Original Usenet thread from rec.arts.ascii, started 11 Aug 1994.
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rec.arts.ascii
· 1 message · 11 Aug 1994
I have been requested to post my list of impossible ascii objects onto this
newsgroup. This has been posted in the past onto alt.ascii-art. This will
probably be my only posting of this list here, so save it now!
I don't think anyone else has put it on an ftp site, and as I don't know how
to, would someone else like to do it? No good telling me how to do it, as
I will be relinquishing my user area in an hour or so :-(
So, here it is: Enjoy!
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Canonical List of Impossible Objects
The ones marked PH are by me, the others are by someone or other - I have no
idea who.
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/________________\ \ \
\_____________________\ /
PH
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|________|/
PH
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______________________________
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_____________________________
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0______________________________\| PH
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__________________________
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/ /_/___| | |__________/ / / | | |
/________| | |___________/ / | | |
| _______| | |__________ | | | | |
| | | | | |_________| | |__| | |
| | | | |___________| | |____| |
| | | / / ___________| | |_ / /
| | | / / / | | |/ / /
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| | | / / | | ' /
| | |/_/_______________| | /
| |____________________| | /
|________________________|/
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/.../\
/.../##\
/.../####\
/.../######\
/.../###/\###\
/.../###/ \###\
/.../###/\ \###\
/.../###/ \ \###\
/.../###/ \ \###\
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/.../###/______________\ \###\
/........................\ \###\
/..........................\ \###\
----------------------------- \###/
\ \#/
\_________________________________/
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_________ _________ _________
|\_______\ |_______| /_______/|
| | _____ | | _____ | | _____ | | - a poor attempt at
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a 3d picture.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unfocus your eyes, and
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | you probably still
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | won't get it
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
\_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/
PH
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Clara Fitzgerald uses in her sig a variation on Escher's
famous fork:
_________________________
/______________________ |
| _________________ /| |
| | |_______________|_| |
| |/______________________|
|__________________________/
Here is a larger version of that variation:
,aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
d' 8
,P' 8
,dbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 8
8 d"8 8
8 d' 8 8
8 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad' 8 8
8 8 8 8 8 8
8 8 8 8 8 8
8 8 ,8aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa8aaa8 8
8 8 ,P 8
8 8,P 8
8 8baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad'
8 d'
8 d'
8aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaP'
Normand Veilleux
And here is a variation on one of PH's diagrams:
,aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
,d" ,d"8
,d" ,d" 8
,d" ,aaaaaaaaaaa ,d" 8
,d" ,d"8 ,d" ,d" 8
,d" ,d" 8 ,d" ,d" ,8
,d" ,d" 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" 8,d" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" ,8" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" ,d" ,d" ,d"
,PaaaaaaaaaaP ,d" ,d" ,d"
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8 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8,d" ,d" ,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" Normand
8 8 ,d" ,d" Veilleux
8 8,d" ,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P
--
Normand Veilleux
nve...@emr1.emr.ca
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Here are two I made. The first used to be my sig.
__ ___________
|\G\ |\ ________\
| \r\ | \ \_____ |
| \e\ \S\ \ | |d| Life is like a grapefruit:
| \a\ \t\ \ | |a| it's sort of orangy-yellow
| |\ \t\ \e\ \| | | and dimpled on the outside,
| | \ \i\ \p\ | |S| wet and squidgy in the middle.
| |f|\ \n\ \h\| |i| It's got pips inside too...
| |r| \ \g\ \a| |l| Oh, and some people have half
| |o|__\_\s\ \n |v| a one for breakfast.
| |m|_______\ \ |a|
\|_________| \|_|
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|\ _________\
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| | |__\_\| | |
| | |_______| |
\|___________|
Sil...@STPC.WI.LeidenUniv.NL || SdS...@STHP.WI.LeidenUniv.NL
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+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| | ___________________ |
| Torbj|rn Andersson | / ________________() "Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 |
| Kantorsgatan 8:415 | / /|______________ iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi |
| 754 24 Uppsala | / /_/_____________() wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt |
| Sweden | /__________________ speling in ius xrewawt xe |
| 018 - 26 07 66 | |_________________() Ingliy-spiking werld." |
| | -- Mark Twain |
+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
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/ /___/__| | |_________|_________|_________|_\ \ \
/ / | | | \ \ /\
/___/________| | |_________________________________\___\/ \
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\___\_______| | |_______________________________________\/
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| | |_________| | |
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| | |__________________\| |
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\|_______________________________________|
Mr Whippy - Andy Harrison - and...@cogs.susx.ac.uk
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--
*- * - * - * - * - *Just relax your eyes.
* | | | *| | | | * | | | | * | | | | * | | | |*Stephen "PH" Buxton
*- |-| *|- |-| * |- |-| * |- |-| * |- |-|*mei...@cch.cov.ac.uk
* | | *| | | * | | | * | | | * | | |*mei...@cck.cov.ac.uk
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