Thursday, June 24, 2010

What are the different types of ASCII art?

    o  Linedrawing - like stickmen
    o  Lettering - like the ASCII generators do
    o  Grey scale pictures - These create the illusion of grey shades
       by using letters for their light emitting value.
    o  3-D images - Can be viewable by people with similar vision in
       both eyes. You try to focus as if you are looking at the back
       of the monitor. The image should pop into focus and create a
       3-D illusion. Other 3-D images are viewed by putting your nose
       on the monitor glass.
    o  Geometric Article - Text is formed into meaningful shapes.
    o  Picture Poem - A geometric article that is also a poem.
    o  Page Making - Text and graphics are intermixed, as in a magazine.
    o  Picture Story - A story told with accompanying ASCII pictures.
    o  Color - You can view color ASCII pics, if you have a color screen
       and 'ANSI' color compatible software, or Web access using HTML.
    o  Color Graphics - You can view color ASCII pics if you have color
    o  Animation
    o  Color Animation
    o  Scroll Animation - This is an animation that is made to be viewed
       by scrolling down.  The image plays out as the screen is redrawn
       with the next 'page' of the image.
    o  Overstrike Art - It contains carriage returns without line feeds
       at times. The print head can overstrike a line on the paper that
       has already been printed on.  This allows for darkening, and for
       placing different characters at the same place on the paper.
       This kind of art is obviously only printed.

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