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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 13 Dec 2002.
Re: Paschimottanasana

Re: Paschimottanasana

[David Reis]:
>
>   - smoothed out several corners

uh, quite the opposite IMHO.

>   - removed the question marks from the bottom of the left
>     foot - to ... well... looked strange :) I think it depends
>     on how you watch the pic : if you "blur" your eyes, the
>     "?"s will appear "rounder" and you wont see the dots, if
>     you look at it normally the dot style looks IMHO better as
>     dots are smaller.

this must be a case of using different fonts.  I use Lucida
Typewriter, where the dot of the question mark is offset slightly to
the right.  this fits Veronica's use very well.

>   - made left foot a bit longer, and took this "absolutely
>     straight" impression from the right one, added ankles

         `?MMMMM                `?MMMMM                `?MMMMM
          `MMMMM.                `MMMMM.                `MMMMM.
           ?MMMMb                 ?MMMMb                 ?MMMMb
           !:: :!                 : ':::                 :::::|
           !:. .t                 :  '::                 ::::.|
       _.-::`   :\             ,.-'(  ::.             .-:::::.\
   _-::::`        )       _.-'' ..--. '::          _.:::::::   |
  (__..____...._-'       '_.______..__.-'         (_.__________/

         me                    David                  Veronica

I went back to the original, elongated it and reduced the shading.  it
is supposed to be a sock or ballet shoe, not barefoot.  I think.

>   I still dont like the area where the hand is supposed to
>   grab the foot, still loks kinda strange.

I like the longer fingers of Veronica.  so there :-)


Kjetil T.

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From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kje...@haey.ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: Paschimottanasana
Date: 13 Dec 2002 01:04:47 +0100
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