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" ~ `' " ~`' Rowan Crawford.
See Question 8 for info on where to get 3-D programs.
Other types of ASCII art using the standard printable set include the
following four:
o Geometric Article - Text itself is formed into shapes. It can be used
to create interesting or meaningful shapes out of the text you read.
o Picture Poem - A geometric article that is also a poem. See the swan in
the examples at the end of ASCII Art Resources..
o Page Making - Text and graphics are intermixed, as in a magazine. The
first four examples in this ansewr are an example of ASCII art page
making. Also known as 'pagination'.
Page making may be as simple as using a geometric article as a simple
wrap-around, as in Question 5. Or it may be a three column text format,
as in Question 2 and Question 9. Or it can be something complex, like
multi-column text wrapped around gray scale graphics, with captions,
headlines, graphs, charts, sidebars, etc.
o Picture Story - A story told with accompanying ASCII pictures. The
text and ASCII graphics are intermixed using ASCII art page making
techniques.
Chevalier has made a number of picture stories. Six stories and two
poems are available in a file called "Chevalier" in /pub/Scarecrow/Misc
at the Scarecrow's FTP site.
See the end of ASCII Art Resources for examples of all of the above.
Send any geometric articles, picture poems, and picture stories, you may
There are also non-standard types of ASCII art which cannot be viewed
immediately upon receiving. They contain 'control codes' for color or
animation. They must be 'uuencoded' to be posted or emailed. For further
information, see Question 19.
The three types of non-standard ASCII art are:
o Animation - You see an animated image produced by a sequence of changing
ASCII pictures. The speed will depend on the system you are using, and
modem speed if you are calling in. "ANSI" (American National Standards
Institute) escape sequences can be found in this file and in ASCII Art
Resources.
o Color Graphics - You can view color ASCII pics, if you have a color
screen and ANSI color compatible software. Check to see if your
software supports ANSI color, and how it is enabled.
o Color Animation - For an example of color and animation together, take a
look at the file called "Vortex" in /pub/Scarecrow/Color at the
Scarecrow's FTP site, ftp.wwa.com.
Examples of these are at the end of ASCII Art Resources. Send any
animations, color pics, and color animations you may have to: [email protected]
But wait, there are other kinds of ASCII art:
o Overstrike Art - It contains carriage returns without line feeds at times.
The print head can overstrike a line on the paper that has already been
printed on. This allows for darkening, and for placing different
characters at the same place on the paper. This kind of art is obviously
only printed.
o Srcoll Animation - This is an animation that is made to be viewed by
scrolling down. The image plays out as the screen is redrawn with the
next 'page' of the image.
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For best results in viewing ASCII art, try the following:
o A 'non-proportional' font, also called a 'mono-spaced' font. This is a
font that displays the same number of characters per inch, no matter
what the actual width of the characters. So the letters i and n and m
are displayed at the