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Pot of gold by ~fogbank:iconfogbank:

Categories Contests > 2006 > Non-existant - Ansi Contest > Ascii

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First attempt at an ASCII picture, after I've been strongly advised to participate to this contest. :P

It's a pot of gold. There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Or is there?

I've used this as a reference picture.

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*diamondie Dec 8, 2006, 11:15:35 AM
Cool idea. Nice use of different characters, even though the contrast is so strong that the edges stand out quite a lot compared to the center. Why no $'s in the gold?->
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~fogbank Dec 8, 2006, 6:18:44 PM
No $'s in the gold because I found them too cheesy and with too little contrast.

Also, I'm not satisfied with the contrast in the pot. Silly me, I've drawn this in Jave without looking at how the proper DOS font would have looked. I could have uploaded the pic using Lucida Console, but I felt it would have been cheating. For me, it's either "proper" DOS mode, or it's cheating.

I've never thought about the strong contrast. It just felt natural to do it this way. What would you change, exactly?
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*diamondie Dec 18, 2006, 7:15:54 AM
A bit of a late reply, because my message center has been buried with messages (DA doesn't let you view older messages unless you clear up the new ones). It's hard to say what I would have done, I suck at grayscale ASCII and creating a rainbow in ASCII certainly isn't the easiest thing. Things like %, 8, $ and @ might work, but the shape makes things much more complicated. Maybe I'll try my hands on drawing a grayscale ASCII rainbow when I feel like attempting something just about impossible. :-P
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