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- ASCII anti-aliasing
- An 'asciify' algorithm for anti-aliasing pbm bitmaps, with sample
This last topic may have the most *practical* utility-- it should
allow archives of GIFs and JPEGs to offer compact catalogs of
thumbnails *in the form of simple text files*.
Thruout the faq, I'll be raising questions about things I don't
know, that I'd like to be able to answer in future updates.
Feedback is *very* welcome.
Here's some samples of ascii page-layout:
1 9 9 3
The central |"|
bargraph shows >>>>>>>> |m| < =---------
the total |m| 1 This rightmost bargraph,
number of |"| |m| < . turned sideways, shows
newsgroups, | | < |m| 2 . the *distribution* of daily
log 10 | | 9 |m| < . volume for all newsgroups.
(groups_total) | | < |m| 3 ] (msgs_per_group)
(~5000) | | < |m| < ]
|m| 6 | | 4 ]] Here, most newsgroups are
>>>>> |m| < | | < ]] still way under 100 msgs
This leftmost |m| < | | 5 ]]]] per day. One group in ten
bargraph is |m| 3 | | < ]]]]]]] tops this level.
a logarithmic |m| < | | 6 =---------
display of |m| < |_| 0 100 200
total Usenet |m| 0 msgs/day/group
readership, |_|
(subs_total) 5000 groups
(~1,000,000) 1 million readers
1 9 8 8 1 9 9 3 1 9 9 8: the nightmare?
(wild guesses)
|"| |"| |"|
|m| < =--------- |m| < =--------- |m| < =---------
|m| 1 |m| 1 |m| 1 ]
|"| |m| < |"| |m| < . |"| |m| < ]]
| | < |m| 2 | | < |m| 2 . | | < |m| 2 ]]
| | 9 |m| < . | | 9 |m| < . | | 9 |m| < ]]
| | < | | 3 . | | < |m| 3 ] |m| < |m| 3 ]]
| | < | | < . | | < |m| < ] |m| < |m| < ]]]
| | 6 | | 4 ] |m| 6 | | 4 ]] |m| 6 |m| 4 ]]]]
| | < | | < ] |m| < | | < ]] |m| < |m| < ]]]]]]
|m| < | | 5 ]] |m| < | | 5 ]]]] |m| < | | 5 ]]]]]]]]
|m| 3 | | < ]]]] |m| 3 | | < ]]]]]]] |m| 3 | | < ]]]]]]]]]
|m| < | | 6 =--------- |m| < | | 6 =--------- |m| < | | 6 =---------
|m| < |_| 0 100 200 |m| < |_| 0 100 200 |m| < |_| 0 100 200
|m| 0 msgs/day/group |m| 0 |m| 0
|_| |_| |_|
500 groups 5000 groups 50,000 groups???
100,000 readers 1 million readers 100 million readers
Current editors/ word processors assume that you want your text
elements to hug the left margin, effectively a 'sideways gravity'
that must be carefully counteracted. It's easy to screw up (which
the warlorders call 'tabdamage'). If your wp offers typeover-mode,
that's likely to work better than insert-mode, for preventing
tabdamage.
Here's a primitive animation (that also illustrates the use of
lineweight to simulate depth). The protagonist is just a circle
with a heavy ascii lineweight, abstractly representing a character
named Joy Hoy:
_+m"m+_
Jp qh
O O
Yb dY
"Y5m2Y"
The faster your modem, the nicer this works:
==========================================================================
.
::
:: .. :
. .::::.: ::
- :. :':::::.:::: /-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/-\_/
| :':'::.::::::.: - . , . . .
| \- - :''::':'::: ... _/ | . . <^o^o^^o^> . .
| ] \- -::'::'::.::/ | . <^o^^o^^o^^o^> ,
| : ..\:::':'::/ | . . <^^^^^^^^^^^^^^> .
| ] : .. _ -=_ | , H.:. /.../..:H . .
| ] : ./ \ | . . . I://.//./ /::I ,
| ] :/ \ | . H:.: /.//...:H ..
| ] / / \ \ | :. I.:/.//.//..:I .: .
_+m"m+_ | ]/ / \ | . , H:../// /./::H . ..
Jp qh | / \ \ | ., . I./:/../// .:I , . ,
O O ___|/ / \ \|____;__H:. ////:/./:H_________
Yb dY
"Y5m2Y" /