Re: Alternative uses of ascii art

"LaurA" <nom...@nospam.com> posted:
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> So, if you could manage to draw your ascii wonders using a "squared" font,
> and using characters as colour codes (i.e. x always means black, o always
> means white, etc.), and if it was possible to have the art drawn into
> squares, like we had to do on our first grade workbooks, I think it would be
> a great opportunity not only to get rich, but also to see your drawings
> emboidered...

When I was in grade school, we used to draw small x's in the squares of
that fine graph paper -- not the kind with the larger blocks, but the kind
with areas squared of with bold lines, containing 5x5 blocks of smaller
squares.

We would use map color pencils to write an "x" into each square to complete
an image.  In that respect, one could essentially start with a background
with a grid of x's and use an HTML editor to color them... or even a
program like WordPad for Win95, though the colors used for WordPad are more
limited than HTML colors.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Although, judging by the lowercase then upper case x's above, one might
almost need a special font to pull it off to where the bottom of one row of
x's touches the top row of the next, so it looks like genuine cross-stitch.
The lower-cased x is better... and it looks especially good in monotype.com
because there are no bumps or ridges on the ends of the sticks.

Such a font shouldn't be hard to create because the only character needed
is an "x".  It would be a tiny file.  I don't have a font editor or I'd try
making one, but creating images in this way sounds like a reasonable
endeavor. :)  A page loaded with x's.  Hmmm.  I might try it myself... but
with Netscape crashing every time I want to do something creative, I
hesitate to indulge myself.

Besides, I have a hard time converting imagination to tangibility.  It just
doesn't work for me like it does for others. :/

Firedraake

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