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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 15 Feb 1995.
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Talk: Rorschach script to generate inkblots

Talk: Rorschach script to generate inkblots

alt.ascii-art · 1 message · 15 Feb 1995
In article <3hl4g3$6h...@gagme.wwa.com>, Felix Lee <fle...@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>
>not sure if this got posted already.  my computer crashed the first
>time I tried to post it.
>
Ditto problems here. I posted twice because my first reply never showed up
at my site (well it finally did, but to late) so I thought it was
lost. Anyways... 

>Are Nodland:
>> Rorschach, I believe. And yes that would be great. I've always wanted a
>> Rorschach inkblot in ascii, but haven't had the courage to try one. 
>> Anyone?
>
>okay.  I thought this was an interesting idea, so I wrote a simple
>program in Perl for making random Rorschach-like inkblots.
>
>here's an example:

Jepp, this surely surpasses my expectations by atleast a BIG ascii-byte :-)
*Happy*: now I can produce as many inkblots as I want. And I'll probably
experiment a little with this script to see what is possible with output
size etc. 

[deletia, perl script etc.]

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