Sender: starmoonh misses my husband, message area: ascii club Title: Re: I just discussed the color block issue with superlady Sending station: BBS Westward Journey Station Thu May 15 22:26:39 2003, forwarded Well, the software that converts pictures into large blocks of half-width characters actually uses different characters to express changes in color depth. For example, in the emaileffects software, you use @ to fill the dark areas, use o to fill the light areas, etc. The lightest part is Just use spaces. In reo reo's masterpiece it is mentioned: : nod, for example : Line drawing is like pen drawing, just use lines to outline the outline : Color block painting is more like oil painting or watercolor, expressing objects through changes in color.