Re: This is a test

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> Wed, 9 Jun 2021 18:17:40 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups alt.ascii-art.animation,alt.ascii-art
Organization Some absurd concept
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In alt.ascii-art.animation,

BTW, alt.ascii-art is a better place for this content, since it does not
animate and gets more traffic. I've crossposted there.

If you do want animation, and have a C compiler, look here:

https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat

I'll gladly take additional animations if you have them.

colin randall  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Curiously tho' ... a couple of months ago i did a search for an article
> in the 'deja-news archive' (which is now owned by google) and it
> wasn't as messed-up as the above shows
> yep ... they'd removed leading spaces but not compressed others
> and ... replaced line-terminators with a 'token'

HTML is not inheritantly ASCII art friendly, and it shows.

> so a quick search'n'replace of the line-terminators and realigning
> the leading edge was relatively easy (moslty due to it being like a
> regular shape) ... looks like one of those 'endless knot' pics
> .
>                             _e_
>                           _dP"9b_
>                         _dP"   "9b_
>                       _dP"       "9b_
>                     _dP"           "9b_
>         8888888888888888888     8888888888888888888
>         88      _dP"     88     88     "9b_      88
>         88      "9b_     88     88     _dP"      88
>         88  _     "9b_   88     88   _dP"     _  88
>         88_d8b_     "9b_ 88     88 _dP"     _d8b_88
>         88P" "9b_     "9b88     88dP"     _dP" "988
>       _d88     "9b_     "98     8P"     _dP"     88b_
>     _dP"88       "9b_     "     "     _dP"       88"9b_
>   _dP"  8888888888888b_             _d8888888888888  "9b_
> _dP"                                                   "9b_
> "9b_                                                   _dP"
>   "9b_  8888888888888P"             "98888888888888  _dP"
>     "9b_88       _dP"                 "9b_       88_dP"
>       "988     _dP"      _d     b_      "9b_     88P"
>         88b_ _dP"      _d88     88b_      "9b_ _d88
>         88"98P"      _dP"88     88"9b_      "98P"88
>         88  "      _dP"  88     88  "9b_      "  88
>         88       _dP"    88     88    "9b_       88
>         88       "9b_    88     88    _dP"       88
>         8888888888888888888     8888888888888888888
>                      "9b_         _dP"
>  Chaos Arrow           "9b_     _dP"
>  by Alan De Smet         "9b_ _dP"
>                            "98P"
>                              "

That's a good looking figure.

Elijah
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VT100 animations are _very_ much not HTML friendly