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only containing the basic characters of the Ascii set you can type with your keyboard.
It ranges from simple smiley's :) to advanced big pictures. Big pictures are often done
with shading from lighter to darker characters i.e. :?%$# And you can also use
the different shapes of the characters in "line draw",,-´"`-./"¨"~-..,´\,^., or
or "shape draw",d#b. "Y##bo._, or combine all three standards..
Note that Dos (OEM standard) and Windows (ANSI standard) Ascii are slightly different,
and might require different progs and converters.
Of course, Notepad works out fine, Still: There's some good progs that could be useful:
| /°\5(¡¡ Pix | |
| Artpack | Check out my artpack! |
| /°\5(¡¡ Progs | |
| TheDrawer | Ansi, but could come in handy. Good in Dos |
| TextPad | Got pretty good block editing mode |
| AsciiArt | Pretty hard to use and mostly worse than TheDraw |
| Gifscii 1 2 | Could turn most gif's into Ascii's |
| /°\5(¡¡ Links | |
| Joan Stark's Home Page | Spunk - legendary artist |
| Ascii Art | What it says! |
| InData ASCII Art Links | Some links |
| Scarecrow's Ftp archive | Ascii Fan |
And then, what is Ansi? It's pretty much like 16-color Ascii, with 8 foreground
and 8 background colors. This might sound pretty lame, but you could achieve
pretty good shading with keys like this:
. Ansi started out as a methodto draw pics on BBS:es, which you called with a phone number on a modem.
In the beginning, ansis could only be as big as an average computer screen.
But now, you can have screen/double screen width and unlimited height, which gives you
more possibilities. Of course, bigger ansis doesn't look as good on a BBS.
Larger height ansis flows down on the screen, Bigger width, I don't know.
There is also extended ansis like Adf, which comes closer to basic Ega-Vga.
And Rip, which looks pretty much like those old Ega pics, hard to use though.
If you wanna know more, check out these links:
I've got trouble with an Ansi thing, click here if you wanna help!
| Ansi Pix | |
| Artpack | Check out my artpack! |
| Ansi Progs | |
| AcidDraw | Bigger screens |
| TheDrawer | Classic! |
| TheBrush | Import BMP and PCX pix |
| Artworx | Creators of Adf |
| Shmansi | Freeware, with Ice Colors and Adf |
| IceView | Ice's Viewer |
| AcidView | Acid's Viewer |
| Ansi Links | |
| The Original ANSI Art Gallery | Pretty cool, much recent art |
| Superunknown | The yellow pages to underground computer art, old though. |
| Learn 2 Draw | Learn 2 Draw - zip file |
| Art Groups | |
| Acid | Acid Art Group |
| Ice | Ice Art Group |
| Blade | Blade Art Group |
| Cia | Cia Art Group |
| Zone One | My group:) |
