Question about ASCII art

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Tue May 23 14:57:16 2000

>
> I am making the assumption that most of these ASCII art files were scanned
> from actual pictures and then rendered by some software?
>
> If so, is this software still around???

Actually, the technique is fairly simple to program.

It was actually used in Geography/map-making programs, as a way of
printing out maps. I used to use a geographic information System
that could print out the resulting geographical answers using
various overstrikes to generate a greyscale map on normal 9 pin
dot matrix printers. And I've seen the output of many other
such programs while I was working on a second BS in geography.

I probably still have some geography books that have examples of those maps
for illustrative purposes.

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 14:57:16 BST