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From: jorn@mcs.com (Jorn Barger)
Subject: Re: New twist on Re: SigZag
Date: 1998/03/01
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Donovan <bakd@gwtc.net> wrote:
> Who says that the
> pics we come up with are the original. I mean, it's not like we have
> unlimited characters to work with, and ASCII art has been around since
> the first home computer!

Another way to say this is that a _compression program_ could compress
an ascii drawing down a lot smaller than the same screen area full of
words.  Full-screen art usually has tons more whitespace, for example.

So a 2k artwork might have only as much complexity as 0.5k of words.


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