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special care is taken to use characters for their shapes. With this
technique, you can smooth out a font, or an object like the one below.
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using characters for their shapes. Y88Y You can also use *.
o Use areas of characters for patterns, tones, and contrast. For example,
in this flower, notice the density of the letters subtlely change to
form the petals. I would like to see this colorized.
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o Here are a couple of textures from Jorn's "asciitech" file:
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Here are a few tips, that taken together, can make an instant ASCII artist
out of anybody:
o A quick way to make a pic is to photocopy a drawing onto plastic. Place
the plastic over your monitor to act as a guide for placing characters.
o Ease your work by making a file full of lines of spaces. Now copy that
file. Open a copy and start working. You'll see that it's easier
because you can now go where you want and replace the spaces with
characters. You have eliminated endless space bar pressing. Remember
to strip all trailing spaces when you're done.
o Use a mouse. A mouse allows you to move more quickly from character to
character. It's also easier to delete bunches of characters and large
numbers of lines.
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o To avoid as much variation as possible | |
in characters, weights, and shapes | ) = + / ! ( |
found between different fonts, use the | - _ : ; , . |
characters shown at the right. !___________________________!
o Use 'block editing' if you can. Some software allows for a square or
rectangular chunk of text to be cut, copied and pasted.
o It may be better to work on your own computer (if it has more
appropriate hardware and-ar software), and then upload it to your
host.
Also, see files like Jorn's "asciitech", available at:
Jorn's FTP site