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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 31 Jul 1998.
Re: Ascii-art resizer!

Re: Ascii-art resizer!

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:48:48 -0400, sTiLe <sti...@mindless.com> wrote:

>I needed to slim down an ascii-art I got somewhere so that I could use it,
>because it was 27 lines.  I'm not too good with ascii-art, so I just wrote
>a program to scale down (or up) an ascii-art... example:
>                          ooo$$$$$$$$$$$$oooo
>                      oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o
>                    oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o         o$   $$ o$
>    o $ oo        o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$o       $$ $$ $$o$
> oo $ $ "$      o$$$$$$$$$    $$$$$$$$$$$$$    $$$$$$$$$o       $$$o$$o$
> "$$$$$$o$     o$$$$$$$$$      $$$$$$$$$$$      $$$$$$$$$$o    $$$$$$$$
>   $$$$$$$    $$$$$$$$$$$      $$$$$$$$$$$      $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>   $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$    $$$$$$$$$$$$$    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$  """$$$
>    "$$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$     "$$$
> [SNIP]

>when shrunken to 75% becomes:
>                o$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>              oo$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$       o$  $ o$
>oo$ $"$     $$$$$$$   $$$$$$$$$$   $$$$$$$      $$o$o$
>"$$$$o$    o$$$$$$     $$$$$$$$     $$$$$$$o   $$$$$$
>  $$$$$   $$$$$$$$     $$$$$$$$     $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>  "$$""""$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$    "$$
> [SNIP]

>Neat, eh? it works like an image scaler, though, so you don't gain detail
>as you increase size, and as you decrease size you lose some of the
>letters.

I'm really sorry but this is one of the poorest (and pointless)
programs I have ever seen relating to ASCII. If it re-sampled I could
see a vague use but, as is, it simply removes columns and rows of
characters.!?
Besides, I think this form of "ASCII art" (and I use the term loosely)
is utter crap and should be refered to as something else (like: "ANSI
art" without any ANSI!). (or talent!)

:nathaN

P.S. no dis-respect to sTiLe intended.

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From: nat...@no2spam.virtek.com (Naughty)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art resizer!
Date: 1998/07/31
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