RPPG - FAQ

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A: From the English abbreviation ASCII - American Standard Codes of Information Interchange. This is the name of the text symbol table mode. But in relation to echo conference this word can mean a picture made up of these symbols, that is, a picture in a text mode. >Q: What is ANSI? A: From the abbreviation ANSI - American National Standards Institute. It's like this special text recording format. Alternatively: its support will be organized by The ansi.sys driver is included in the standard distribution of Windows and DOS 5.0. Its peculiarity is that it supports 16 colors for symbols and 8 colors on the background, which is necessary when drawing colored text images. You can achieve 16 colors on the background if you turn off the bit blinking, for example with the blink.exe utility. >Q: What are hirez and lowrez? A: hirez - from English. High Resolution (high resolution graphics) lowrez - from English. Low Resolution (low resolution graphics) That's why pictures in text mode are sometimes called lowrez. >Q: Tell us about styles and directions in pseudographics.A: There are many of them, but initially there was one style, later it became call OldSchool; What distinguishes him is that he is not depicted as being available to everyone ASCII table characters, but only punctuation marks, slashes, parentheses etc. It first appeared on Amiga computers, where it used its own a font that gives special expressiveness to this style. On on modern computers to achieve this effect this font installed, for example, using special fonts (Amiga.fnt) or special utilities. Now OldSchool is used quite often for writing various tags, headings, etc. The second main style is NewSchool, it can be drawn with any symbols, included in the ASCII table, and its main difference from OldSchool in technology execution. If in OldSchool it is enough to display simply similarities with original, then in NewSchool most often (especially beginners) try achieve maximum smoothing of contours (Antialiasing) and transitions coloration, contrasts, fading, shading through symbols, which certainly requires high skill and artistic thinking. Often NewSchool is colored using ANSI format. Hy and the third, also the main style, is BlockStyle. Its difference fromthe previous two are that they are used only in this way to draw it called "bricks" and "meshes". Most often BlockStyle is painted via ANSI format. In general, BlockStyle is interesting because it you need to know how to work with color. Successful combinations of 16 primary colors and 8 backgrounds allow artists to achieve interesting shades of the image. In addition, there are also “exotic” rare formats: Rip, Bin, X-Bin, Avt. >Q: What is RIP? A: You can answer this question in two ways: on the one hand, this concept "plagiarism", from the English verb to rip - to rip off, that's what they say about copied works or violation of someone else's copyright. But there is also another meaning of this word: this is an unusual graphics format (*.rip files) It is a picture in hirez, specified by various graphic primitives. In a nutshell - this is vector graphics. More often all of this results in ugliness, but the Rip masters create in it real masterpieces. The usual concept of Rip pseudographics includes It’s difficult, but it just so happened that Rip and pseudographics are nearby. Quality It is not easy to find works in this format and now the format is irrelevant. >Q: What is BIN? A: It looks very similar to ANSI, only if ANSI only scrolls down andup, the BIN format will scroll in all 4 directions, this allows expand the composition. The format is quite rare (*.bin files). >Q: What is X-BIN? A: This is also a separate branch in pseudographics, its feature is that that the work uses original “homemade” symbols and colors. This allows you to achieve very interesting shapes, and in terms of image quality This format is sometimes easy to confuse with hirez. The founder of this format became the art group Acid, but the format didn’t catch on and now I have to find it difficult, especially worthy copies (*.xb files). >Q: How can I watch the above formats? A: There are many special programs for viewing pseudographics like simple and universal, and the most successful of all I find AcidView v4.36 is a universal viewer that works with all the above formats, and in addition to this, it also has a lot of useful functions that you will figure out yourself (this is not advertising), by yourself I've been using it for a long time and have no complaints. In general, there are still viewers ANVI, Iceview, etc., and ANVI can be viewed with a simple command (TYPE *.ans) with the ansi.sys driver loaded. >Q: How to draw pictures of the above formats?A: Of course, you can draw in any text editor, even in WORD, but for amenities There are special programs. For drawing ANSI and ASCII There are a bunch of editors and each of them has a number of shortcomings, so I would recommend using several at once. Personally, I use A3E and AcidDraw, but in addition there is also CiaDraw, The Draw and many others. >Q: Give links on the Internet. A: There are a lot of sites, the most extensive in my opinion is: www.thuglife.org You can find almost everything on it: fresh artpacks, programs, press releases, etc. There is a rich archive of art packs from different groups. (artpack - a collection of works by any group (art group)) _you can also look at:_ (links from the secular site) http://ascii.bl.am/ http://www.asciiscene.org/ http://www.amigascne.org/ http://ok.novgorod.net/zmej http://www.ojuice.net/ http://www.demoscene.ru/ http://www.scene.org/ http://scene.org.ru/ http://scenergy.nm.ru/ http://www.scenet.de/ _artgroup websites:_ http://www.secular.da.ru/ http://www.galza.org/ http://come.to/lkr http://www.mimic.ca/ http://pavit.newmail.ru/ http://proxium-hq.org/ http://www.t-rex.org/ http://www.thesands.org/ http://throb.newmail.ru/ http://www.wasted.nu/Criticism, advice, wishes and recommendations are accepted, as well as additional questions to replenish the FAQ-list in NETMAIL or e-mail 2002 (c) Roman Shutalev (aka Zero_Man) e-mail: _*zero_man@ezmail.ru*_