Buzz #16
26 сентября 1998

ASCII graphics - ASCII - questions and answers.

<b>ASCII graphics</b> - ASCII - questions and answers.
   Starting with this issue, we plan to publish parts of
a large and interesting text about the ASCII graphics. Titanic 
task English translation of this manuscript to shoulder

Spy. To him we owe the appearance of this without interest 
publikaktsii in our newspaper and we want to say a big thank 
you for hard work, done for the benefit of Buzz and our readers.



                           Abstract.

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  The concept of ASCII I use the feminine gender, relying on 
the word "Encoding". Also, I was not able to translate some of 
the terms in Basically, the network, due to their ignorance of 
elementary values. Please excuse me for a few rough translation 
- affects lack of time, experience and patience ;-)

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....../""""""". This file consists of questions and answers 
found ....../""""""". excited in the ASCII ART FAQ, plus to 
this - examples ........./"" ... various types of ASCII 
graphics, Figlet-von ........./"" ... fonts and the emergence 
of ANSI graphics. Bo ........./"" ... than 70 kilobytes of 
"sweets" are included in this time ........./"" ... Affairs of 
the questions and answers. In addition, this file ........./"" 
... consists of the things otsutstvuyuschih the FAQ, for 
example ........./"" ... measures: a large number of FTP sites, 
names ........./"" ... programs designed to slow ........./"" 
anima ... tion, complete with text and illustrations. 


   In order to specify who soaped me these materials, I
insert a row with the inscription "From:". For best results, 
this file should be viewed by open symbols on dark background. 
Thanks to all those who are soaping me information and 
examples. Comments, suggestions and send ASCII graphics 
address: boba@wwa.com. 


   Hope this helps!

Scarecrow
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1. What is ASCII?
2. Why GIF instead of using ASCII?
3. Why use ASCII?
4. What types of ASCII exist?
5. How do I view ASCII best?
6. How can I learn how to ASCII?
7. Are there any helper programs for ASCII?
8. Where to get them?
9. Where can I find the very ASCII?
10. How can I use FTP, Gopher, World Wide Web and FTP mail

    servers?
11. Can I get the files Scarecrow by email?
12. Copy ASCII graphics - is this normal?
13. How are these large shaped as letters?
14. Where can I get Figlet?
15. How to make Gray Scale pictures?
16. Where can I get Gray Scale converters?
17. How to Improve Gray Scale conversions?
18. What do the extensions of these files?
19. What is uu-encode?
20. As written, uu-decode and decompress the file?
21. How do I view animations and color images?
22. How to add animation to your project?
23. How to make a SIG?
24. How to make SIG is automatically added to my

    mail?
25. What should I know about sending ASCII files?
26. Where there are available FAQ?
27. Who wrote all this?
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 !_____! What is ASCII? _ / \ _



   abcdefgh Standard ASCII is created by

  ijklmnopq only letters, numbers, punctuation

  rstuvwxyz and symbols, such as depicted on the left.


   ABCDEFGH These characters are part of a set

  IJKLMNOPQ ASCII ([Asuka] - American Standard

  RSTUVWXYZ encoding for exchanging information - America

                      Standart Code for Information Interchange)
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 characters with codes from 32 to 126.

                         There is also a non-standard ASCII,
 \ | - _ +% @ <;! containing the control codes.
 = #. ,:> (] / $
'"~) [^ {'`}? ASCII popular among some groups that occupy
                      enacting various information services. As 
an art form, ASCII appeared before the computers - the use of 
printing machines, teletype as well as in printing.



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  / / _ |
 /____! Why GIF instead of using ASCII? _ / \ _


 ASCII is used for several reasons:

√ Standard ASCII - this is the only form of graphs, which is 
most   more easily transmitted and viewed on any terminal, and


  also printed on the printer.
√ If you can view the text, then you also have the WHO
  possibility to view ASCII (since it consists of standard

  text characters). To view does not require any conversion,

  nor any special software.
√ ASCII - as the most compact form of presentation graphics.

  Size of ASCII files can be even less than 1 KB.

  In the case of high-resolution picture can be similar to 
ASCII for   replace GIF file size of 20, 50, 100 or more bytes.



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 !___/ Why use ASCII? _ / \ _



  ASCII is used for several things, such as:

 √ Education - eg table of models of molecules.
 √ Intercultural dialogue - the picture of "international", 
clear 

   people of many nationalities.
 √ Pictures for servers and BBS.
 √ Entertainment - ASCII is used as postcards for days

   birthday, holiday greetings, invitations, greeting

   messages, etc.
 √ supplemental visual information is used, for example,

   in order to "dilute" the graphics are long and complex 
clarifications    of.



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   ! _! What types of ASCII exist? _ / \ _



  In the first four types of uses standard ASCII
character set, which can be viewed on any hardware. If you can 
view the text, you can watch and ASCII. These four types:


 √ Line Drawing (drawing lines) - ..:::::::::..

   symbols are used in the corresponding-..:::::::::::::::..

   dance with their "geometric" singularities ..:::::: ====== 
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   angles in the pictures, etc. ..::::: ==== | \ ==== ::::..

   As an example, image-.::::: ==== /% # | ==== :::..

   wives snowman. .::::: === | '@ / ==== :::::.

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   and "brightness" of characters. ..:::: | |.:. | ::::...

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                              Line Drawing by The Scarecrow

 √ Lettering (inscription) - large and stylized, like

   article title "ASCII ART RESOURCES", or such as image
   nounced below.

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   Such labels can be created both manually and with

   Using special software, for more information
   tion on which you can read in Chapter 13.

 √ Gray Scale image. One gets the impression that you are 
looking 

   on the picture, the colors in which are replaced by shades 
of gray. 

   This effect is created for the characters in the

   According to them "light emitting" characteristics

   (Assuming that the symbols should be light and the 
background - 

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       by The Scarecrow

 √ Three-dimensional images. They can be viewed by people with

   the same vision in both eyes. Try to look like

   would be through the monitor on its back wall. The image must

   focus and become three-dimensional. Other 3d-images

   produced by gradual approximation of his eyes to the monitor 
to 

   contact of the nose to the screen. (As I might pyzhilsya 
anything 

   I did not work :-( - approx. per.)


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  Other types of ASCII, using a standard set of symbols
include the following four:

 √ Geometric Article - Text strings are formed in such a way

   that they form any image.
 √ Picture Poem (pictures - poems) - the same as the Geo
   metric Article, but the text - in verse.
 √ Page Making or Pagination ("stranitsedelanie :-)) - combined
   of text and graphics (as in the magazine). The first four 
species 

   ASCII, discussed in this chapter, refer to Page Making'u.

     Go to Page Making'u also includes the text, divided into 
several 

   columns, the text "format" geometric article or something

   mixed, for example, gray scale image, the surrounding text,

   broken into columns.
 √ Picture Story - stories with ASCII illustrations: 8)


  Examples of these types of ASCII file can be found at the end.


  There are also non-standard types of ASCII, that can not be
look in the usual way. They contain control codes,
For example, for animation or change color. Before viewing
These files need to be recoded (see Chapter 19).


  There are three types of non-standard ASCII:

 √ Animations - animated image that represents the

   sequence of changing ASCII pictures.
 √ Color images - in addition to black and white, there are also

   colored ASCII pictures. To view them requires software, a
   porting standard ANSI (American National Standarts Insti
   tute - American National Standards Institute).
 √ Color Animation - color animation.


  In addition to the above, there are several types of ASCII:

 √ Overstrike Art - designed exclusively for the printer. Ne
   Chat head several times passes by the same

   place on paper. This method is used to darken

   images or to arrange neskolkoh different characters

   in one place.
 √ Scroll Animation - a sequence of ASCII personnel located
   charged in a single file so that when paging

   navigating through the text down, turned out an animated 
image. 


                   (To be continued ...)






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