different tips, tricks and techniques useful for creating ascii animations
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Jonathon R. Oglesbee (jro)
So, You Want To Make Text Art? (part 2) Now that we have delved into castle construction with text-art, in Part One, how about looking at some other kinds of pictures? Automobiles might be a good thing to roll on to. >—>
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Jonathon R. Oglesbee (jro)
So, You Want To Make Text Art? (part 1) That's NO problem, believe me. If you can't paint like Remington, Picasso, or Chester Scott, or sketch a square circle with a pencil, or even smear "wash me" on a dirty windshield with your finger, then text art is for you! Truth is, just about anybody can make a text picutre; so don't say that you CAN'T. You can. It's easy! It really is. It doesn't take a lot of practice, and it doesn't take a lot of "artistic ability". I can have you making your own, unique text-art, in no time at all. >—>
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Susie Oviatt
The CANVAS, or "Targon's secret" One of the very first ASCII artists on GEnie, TARGON, came up with the idea of creating a "canvas." To make it easier to put your characters where they need to go, start with a blank canvas. In most word processing programs, the cursor can't be moved somewhere it's never been before. That's fine if you know exactly where you want each character, and can type it in perfectly the first time, but if you need to experiment, you'll want to move that cursor around with your arrow keys... >—>
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