Re: My first ASCII art

[email protected] (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

> Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Please peer review my first art. As a background I was seeking help in
>> repacing a chip on a computer I own. The following is my best effort
>> rendering of the schematic from the tech reference for the chip in
>> question.
>> 
>>   To
>> HD44102s
>> | | | |
>> | | | |
>> | | | |
>> | | | |-----------------o----------------------} To HD44102s
>> | | |-----------------o-+----------------------} To HD44102s
>> | |-----------------o-+-+----------------------} To HD44102s
>> |-----------------o-+-+-+----------------------} To HD44102s
>>                   | | | |  o    o
>>                   | | | |  |vvv |
>>                   | | | | -++++-+-ooo- -oo-----
>>                  _|_|_|_|_|||||_|_||||_|||__
>>          :------|                           |
>>          o------|        M11 HD44103        |--} M12 HD44103
>>          :------|___________________________|
>> 
>> For some reason some of this is multicolored and I don't know why. I
>> hope it's not ruined after the post.
>
> That'll be your newsreader thinking that lines starting with "|" are
> quoted text. There may be a setting to temporarily disable it, but
> either way it won't change what other people see in your posts.

Yeah I'm using emacs|gnus so I'll have to dig out the setting. Thx. It's
annoying for messaging, and fine while coding.

> I always use "_" for horizontal lines meeting with "|", though that
> might not always be for the best. The suggeestion to use "`" with "-"
> is better, but doing it that way would confuse me too much (this
> stuff is at the frail edge of my pathetic drawing abilities).

Okay I'll give it a shot.

> I would have done this sort of thing for the bus, without any real
> attempt at asthetics:
>
>                                       |
> | | |                       |         |
> | | |____________________.__._________|_____o To HD44102s
> | |                      |  |         |
> | |___________________.__.__._________|_____o To HD44102s
> |                     |  |  |         |
> |__________________.__.__.__._________|_____o To HD44102s
>                    |  |  |  |         |
>                                       |___
>                                           | -- doesn't connect
>                                                to HD44102s

   To
HD44102s
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |_________________.______________________\
| | |_________________._|_______________________\    To
| |_________________._|_|_______________________/ HD44102s
|_________________._|_|_|______________________/ 
                  | | | |
                  | | | |  o    o
                  | | | |  |vvv |
                  | | | | -++++-+-ooo- -oo-----
                 _|_|_|_|_|||||_|_||||_|||__
         :------|                           |
         o------|        M11 HD44103        |--} M12 HD44103
         :------|___________________________|


How does it look with the suggested changes? I added length of the PCB
tracks, changed the horizontal lines to underscores, added the bracket,
changed the solder points to a period instead of a lowercase 'o.'
Removed the + signs to denote cross tracks on the PCB.

This is morphing into a column in an eMag that I'm writing on the
subject of the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100. It's important that I improve my
ascii art skills. I have to keep the drawings sized so they'll fit on a
80x25 screen.

-- 
Daniel
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