Re: Alternative uses of ascii art
From Lester5374 <les...@aol.com.Tony.C.>
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· 12 Dec 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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>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 *Mythos Online : Internet Magazine of Lovecraftian Horror - Dead Alice* http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/redlion/157/deadal.htm *Visit my web page ANSI/ASCII* http://members.aol.com/lester5374/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,30524fccb8f0da61 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: les...@aol.com.Tony.C. (Lester5374) Subject: Re: Alternative uses of ascii art Date: 1998/12/12 Message-ID: <199...@ng50.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 421569549 References: <74s4p7$838$2...@news.flashnet.it> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art X-Admin: new...@aol.com
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