X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110f55,3796fffe486bcf0d X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,3796fffe486bcf0d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,3796fffe486bcf0d X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-07 09:39:28 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: ASCII art Date: 7 Dec 1994 11:21:11 -0600 Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605 708-367-1871 Lines: 27 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <3c4qu7$j4j@gagme.wwa.com> References: <215304Z30111994@anon.penet.fi> <3bjvdh$ejv@sashimi.wwa.com> <3bv94a$9v@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: bga.com rec.arts.ascii:3069 alt.ascii-art:15532 alt.binaries.pictures.ascii:1738 Picard the bald said that Eli the bearded 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