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[arete]

Originally Posted by AlumiuN

You were right, Saccade, that AT-AT is epic.

Yes, but you can still trip it up with cables...

[Sean]

Greets Saccade,

Your ASCII Drawings are really cool. It's not a medium I am familiar with.

Must take a long-time to get things just right.

Cool to look at in the end though. Keep them coming.

Maybe you should make a portrait of me?

[Saccade]

Hey Sean - how's things?
If you provide a piccie, I'll put some squiggles that attempt to look like it.

It is quite fiddly sometimes... The hardest part is getting it from the ASCII editor or Notepad/Wordpad and formatting it so it works here with the [xCode] tags.
Sometimes it works fine, usually the more simple ones, but sometimes it can be a real bitch to get everything in its proper place to make it look right. That's only usually with the extremely repetitive and / or complicated ones.

It is satisfying, in a way, having to re-format the characters.
It's kind of like a Magic Eye picture... I like how it slowly starts to resolve into an image that your brain goes "hey, that looks a bit like this...".

Most of the time, the drawings don't end up as what they started out being.
They just tend to take on a different shape, unless I'm copying from a picture, and, like Bonsai, you have to let the shape decide what type it wants to be before you can refine it.

Probably why everything ends up looking like a bunch of stick-men if I spend too much time on them...

L8rz

[Saccade]

Ready for arts and crafts, boys and girls?


http://trgt.googlegroups.com/web/Oct...6nUF0o4qtAvbzM

This link, right here ^, is to a print-and-cut-out fold up model. Just click through when it's found and you should get a .pdf with an unfolded cube on it.
All you have to do is cut out the two pieces, make some slits for the tabs and the baseball cap's peak, and fold it neat and tidy, slotting the lettered parts into each other.

I'll post some more as-and-when, interspersed with the usual dross that I post here.

I'm not sure I'll keep the .pdf format, though I wanted to protect the images from being copied as they're Abandonian, as it seems the extra click-thru is off-putting.
Either that or people don't like making models any more.

I like making these. Something to do for half an hour (if a bit heavy on the ink - I'm working on sorting the others out so they aren't so costly on the printer), make and keep until you get bored of them.
In which case throwing them away is okay, as you still have the template to make more, if you ever felt like it.

I'm liking the hyphenated-triple-barrelled-word-thing today...

[_r.u.s.s.]

hah

edit: can you upload a copy with loseless compresion? this jpeg picture has really low quality and you see irregularities in compression when you print it

[Saccade]

Which .jpg, russ?

The only .jpg is the small, compressed and optimised for web thumbnail preview thingy. That one is crappy quality, but it wasn't meant to be printed out. It's just a preview.

The .pdf I kept straight from fireworks and photoshop - it's the same
quality (the colours should be solid...) as the original .jpg and resulting .png.

Let me know which one yer talking about and I'll see what I can do, matey.

[ed]
Cheers for pointing that out, Russ -

The .pdf's just come out the printer and the colours are solid and lines are defined.
The small image looks pretty tatty, you're right.

I'm pretty sure that I kept the original sized one from before I messed around with it.
Not doing that would be pretty stupid, right..?
I'm sure it's around somewhere...

[Saccade]

Fuck this - I'm out of here

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Obvious fucking joke..?
There is only one obvious joke here.

What's with threads being closed after people start off on one at me, before I get a chance to fucking read it and reply..?

[_r.u.s.s.]

Originally Posted by Saccade

Which .jpg, russ?

The only .jpg is the small, compressed and optimised for web thumbnail preview thingy. That one is crappy quality, but it wasn't meant to be printed out. It's just a preview.

The .pdf I kept straight from fireworks and photoshop - it's the same
quality (the colours should be solid...) as the original .jpg and resulting .png.

Let me know which one yer talking about and I'll see what I can do, matey.

[ed]
Cheers for pointing that out, Russ -

The .pdf's just come out the printer and the colours are solid and lines are defined.
The small image looks pretty tatty, you're right.

I'm pretty sure that I kept the original sized one from before I messed around with it.
Not doing that would be pretty stupid, right..?
I'm sure it's around somewhere...

well i'm not sure what you mean, what i mean is not in the size. do we mean the same?

[Saccade]

I dunno russ.

Screen grab it and then use a fill tool to correct it? It's all solid colours. Just dropper the shade of Red, Grey and White that you like and. You know what? I find that I'm starting to not give a fuck.

I cannot be arsed with this.

I do not see the point any more.

[_r.u.s.s.]

yeah i know, i'm just saying. in case someone wanted to download an go=P

by the way why taking everything so seriously, i liked your stuff, i was giving advice on what can be fixed, sometimes i think you should be taking anti depressants. you're acting like you're 10