Sender: flubber hopping vault horse, message area: ASCIIArt Title: Re: Can you tell me why you chose Ascii? Sending station: BBS Westward Journey Station Sun Sep 15 11:27:16 2002 Why limit It's like micro-sculpture. Why should it be limited to one hair or one grain of rice? It's like ballet. Why is it limited to the toes? It's like acrobatics. Why should it be limited to one wheel and one wire? Because limitations are part of art Even from a practical point of view asciiart can decorate text Turn the monotonous black and white world into colorful Make boring text lively Not only can it be used on bbs, it can be used wherever text is used. Including qq, email, www, ftp In this sense, asciiart is used more widely than pictures Mentioned in the masterpiece of the netterm ax gang's garbled code: : Much like dancing with chains : Also like a beautiful metrical poem : Why choose a specific creative platform like Ascii? Use a brush directly, a camera or even : photoshop 3Dmax FLash....isn't it more direct and free-spirited? : Is it just because it can be spread on BBS? Or is this kind of creation a synthesis of art and technology? : So it’s no longer the exclusive domain of artists