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I kind of can't even imagine the hours that might have gone into laying these out so they'd work in ASCII.
by bane 9y ago
I kind of can't even imagine the hours that might have gone into laying these out so they'd work in ASCII.
- acidburn1995 9y agoNothing compared to http://sexchart.org/sexchart.9.43 http://sexchart.org/sexchart.9.43
- derimagia 9y agoNow a days at least there are apps to do this. There's https://monodraw.helftone.com/ https://monodraw.helftone.com/ for example, although I never used it.
- acidburn1995 9y agoThe hard part is laying out the planar graph, not laying out boxes.
- astrodust 9y agoThere are a number of ASCII/ANSI-art specific editors that allow moving arbitrary rectancular chunks of text in any direction. Classic example is TheDraw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw) which dates from 1986.
- bananaboy 9y agoI used to use TheDraw all the time to make screens for games, my bbs, and just general stuffing around! Is the author still around? Would love to send him a belated registration fee!
- mwest 9y agoCouldn't find any social media links for them, but they are on LinkedIn if you do a bit of Google searching.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 9y agoPlain text rulez http://textfiles.com/100/whytext.oct http://textfiles.com/100/whytext.oct
- mwest 9y agoEver taken a look at the ASCII/ANSI art from the likes of ACiD and iCE from that era? :-) Some galleries/samples here: http://www.acid.org/ http://www.acid.org/ http://www.ice.org/ http://www.ice.org/ Bit of a nostalgia trip if you ever dialled into a BBS.