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From: bgriffin@ic.sunysb.edu (Eli the bearded)
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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