Re: creature [77colsX30lines]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 11:53:43 PM UTC, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In alt.ascii-art, colin randall <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 
> > 
> > <=- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 7 c o l u m n s w i d e - - - - - - -=> 
> > ^ 
> > | 30 rows tall 
> > v
> In my experience, up to 79 columns is safe everywhere. (Anyone reading 
> news on smaller screens tends to know things will mess up.)
> > . ______ 
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> > 
> > a tracing of a relief found on a 5000-year-old ostrich-egg
> It's very good.
> > i noticed that the horn is somewhat irregular but decided 
> > the barbarian-slave that carved it was shed-loads better at 
> > drawing than i am so left it as is
> Could be that the animal had a distinctive look and that's why it was 
> drawn. 
> 
> Elijah 
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> maybe it was a quirk of how the horn twisted
i looked-up horned-animal pictures and it seems you are correct
the horn cross-section is not regular on animals with a face like that
plus they don't always twist the same way ... the nearest match i could find
was "long-horn sheep"
-- 
cjr