I'll start by digging out one thing I've been meaning to update, but will settle for just putting back online and seeing how we go. So here I am thrusting my silly stuff, nude and skittish, on to the stage. None of its accusations are incompatible with effortposting. There's a voice on loop in one of the more antagonistic departments of my brain that insists what I have to show is stale, and stupid, and trite, and boring, and did I say stupid? and it smells and it's and worse than everyone else on here posting their Jame Gams and their PICO-8s and their CSS crimes and ShaderToys and whatnot.īut there's a logical sleight of hand committed by that voice.I mean they're finished as far as my ADHD is concerned, but with the exchange rate, that equates to anywhere between 25% and 75% actually complete. Personal projects are never "finished".Are you reading this? This is me getting started. It's also easy to post once you get started, but look at this. It's effort! It's right there in the name - effortposting.There are probably a number of reasons for this but three in particular make me clasp my hands together with steepled fingers to my lips and enigmatically go "ah," I touch way too much Computer to have so little to share of it with my modest corner of online. I've had a copy of Queensland's Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, specifically a reference PDF of all its drawings, sitting in Desktop/old Desktop/previous Desktop for the last 6 or so years. These have all extrapolated into adulthood in various ways. I do want to scan and upload this whole thing some day. But what if we drew upon every Unicode character, allowed for any RGB color, and used more than the 8x8 pixels of 80s home computers? ~foreshadowing voice~ Maybe it'll be a dreadful waste of time! Shall we find out? Once someone did the work of scouring every writing system used in South and East Asia to find all the funny faces lurking within.Īnyway, to tie this all together and get to the main thrust of this Post, I had my converter thing with the C64 font and its 16 colors and that's fine and good and fine. Source: Cgkm at English Wikipedia, Īnd I suppose we have the little (ノꐦ ⊙曲ఠ)ノ彡┻━┻ table-flipping guys, which is the kind of one-line whimsy that evolves on web message boards, freed-but-also-estranged from a rigid 80 monospaced characters per line. Shift-JIS art comes to mind as a cousin with a broader set of characters: Source: Īnd Taiwan has ptt.cc (Big5 art?) which feels like the closest thing to what I'm imagining. ASCII art is a medium that was born out of technical constraints, and the proliferation of Unicode was a slow process that postdated widespread availability of the web and scalable, variable-width fonts. What's the next step in its evolution? Nothing really. I appreciate that, at the time of writing, the Wikipedia article for ANSI art has some sort of femme goth goblin representing the craft.īut hey, it's the New Millennium babe! We have more characters than ASCII, and more colors than CGA at our disposal now. It'll be unsurprising that ASCII art has been on my radar for a while, though I never made any magnum opus myself. This is what I'm tediously circumlocuting towards. I was particularly turned into a pair of smoking shoes when I installed Windows 2000 and found that its version of charmap.exe had an innocuous "Advanced view" checkbox, which for my first time, granted me passage to the world of Unicode, the international standard that settles once and for all which numbers mean which symbols on the computer. This kind of thing persisted through my childhood, powerless as I was against the likes of Letraset catalogues 1, Commodore 64 keyboards, Alt codes in DOS and Windows, Any handbook that explains to the grownups what all the road signs mean 2, charmap.exe and so on. Wow Anf stop going on about how cool you are NO
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