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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Dec 1998.
Re: Alternative uses of ascii art

Re: Alternative uses of ascii art

>Subject: Re: Alternative uses of ascii art
>From: "LaurA" <nom...@nospam.com>
>Date: 12/11/98 3:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <74s4p7$838$2...@news.flashnet.it>
>
>
>Lester5374 ha scritto nel messaggio
><199...@ng55.aol.com>...
>>     I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you happen to have a
>graphic
>>example of what you did (counting the crosses in the Excel sheet) on a web
>page
>>somewhere? That might help a little.
>
>http://www.geocities.com/MadisonAvenue/2565/
>is my very-old homepage, and it has a link to my x-stitch chartson the main
>page I did these, then i restarted buying the magazines :))). Snapshots from

     Ahh, I see the light from looking at your homepage. The stitches are made
out of colored blocks, or just blocks. each character would have to be made out
of blocks? Or there can be a symbol or letter or number inserted to each block?
In either case, I'm lost, sorry.

>Excel sheets, actually, but you can imagine it as a sequence of ascii, or so
>i hope. The problem is, it is absolutely necessary to have a squared grid to
>follow when stitching, so my limit to stitching ascii art directly is that
>i's so hard to recount the Xs...
>
>>     But from what you've said about placing the ASCII into spreadsheets, I
>>can't imagine how difficult that would be. All you would have to do is
>re-enter
>>the picture by hand one symbol at a time, it can't be THAT time-consuming,
>can
>>it? I use spreadsheets all the time, you can make all of the cells
>uniformly
>>shaped very easily, and copying and pasting the ASCII letters one at a time
>>would be easy too.
>
>Yes you are not wrong. In fact, ascii art is your hobby, where I'm neither
>patient not precise :)

     Sorry.

>>--
>>     .-~~-.
>>    (_^..^_) Gee! This Tamagotchi is purely LOVELY!

     Hehe. It does look like that, but it was supposed to be a skull, and
someone else thought it was a mushroom cloud from a bomb. :)
--
     .-~~-.
    (_^..^_)
Lester||||AMC
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