ASCII Art

[ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk]

> I rarely see ASCII art these days. There was a retro ASCII Art 
> newsletter that was published every few months which had some ASCII art 
> in it, but sadly the people behind it have decided to stop making it. 
> Only 5 issues exist, and at present I only have issue 5

I feel there are 2 subtly-different forms of ASCII-Art. The first is 
essantally 2-colour, and uses characters of the right shape to form the 
image. The second uses characters of different average densitys to form a 
sort-of greyscale image.

The former is used (and I still regularly use it) for things like 
schematic diagrams. I think I've worked out ASCII-Art versions of the 
symbols for all common components, and I've drawn up quite complex 
scheamtics that way.

The second, which seems to be a lot rarer, is the sort of thing used for 
that picture of the cat, I guess.

-tony