Request for ASCII gears
dabre...@gmail.com
talent myself and have been relying on automatic converters. However,
the smallest usable gear I can generate is 30x30 -- and that's way too
big. If anybody posts some decent smaller gears, I'll give credit in
my game. (It's going to be a multiplayer roguelike type thing)
References:
http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html
http://www.dotcog.com/image_rotator/images/cog_sign.jpg
http://sidewayscycles.co.uk/i/00/04/58.jpg
Thanks
Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
> I'm working on a project, and I need some ascii gears/cogs. I have no
> talent myself and have been relying on automatic converters. However,
> the smallest usable gear I can generate is 30x30 -- and that's way too
> big. If anybody posts some decent smaller gears, I'll give credit in
> my game. (It's going to be a multiplayer roguelike type thing)
Why don't you tell us a bit about your game, and/or show us some url?
> References:
> http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html
> http://www.dotcog.com/image_rotator/images/cog_sign.jpg
> http://sidewayscycles.co.uk/i/00/04/58.jpg
Johann
Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
>> I'm working on a project, and I need some ascii gears/cogs. I have
>> no talent myself and have been relying on automatic
>> converters. However, the smallest usable gear I can generate is
>> 30x30 -- and that's way too big. If anybody posts some decent
>> smaller gears, I'll give credit in my game. (It's going to be a
>> multiplayer roguelike type thing)
This probably won't help, but may be a starting point for someone.
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Johann
dabre...@gmail.com
<joh...@myrkraverk.com> wrote:
http://jigstar.ath.cx:1024/files/guitar.png
(URL should work unless my server's down)
There's a preview of one of the puzzles. The first town, Cyphen, is a
sort of dead-zone afterlife you end up in for various reasons. Picture
a town covered with snow, streetlamps, factories, and a clock tower.
Trolley tracks creep their way across the river and thrown the city.
That puzzle is a large fountain-like structure in which players
collaborate to first tune the guitar by rotating the gears (which are
too large right now, making the rest of Cyphen too large) and then
press patterns on frets.
The game itself (currently but not finally titled PerlRL, perl
roguelike) is a multiplayer roguelike, so see nethack/crawl/adom/tome
for great examples of the genre. PerlRL currently has a sort of
steampunk flair to it, but that's rapidly getting blended with my
newer ideas. I can get a tech demo distributed easily assuming your
platform has perl and ncurses and some modules, working on producing a
plain executable for the rest. ANything else you'd like to know? And I
like the base, Johann. Reminds me of what I had come up with myself:
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/\ | | /\
\ \|__|/ /
\/ \/
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/\____/\
/ /| |\ \
\/ |__| \/
But it just doesn't look as much like a cog as the larger examples in
the picture do. I guess it might just be a tradeoff
Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
> On Apr 17, 5:35 pm, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
> <joh...@myrkraverk.com> wrote:
>> dabreegs...@gmail.com writes:
>> > I'm working on a project, and I need some ascii gears/cogs. I
>> > have no talent myself and have been relying on automatic
>> > converters. However, the smallest usable gear I can generate is
>> > 30x30 -- and that's way too big. If anybody posts some decent
>> > smaller gears, I'll give credit in my game. (It's going to be a
>> > multiplayer roguelike type thing)
>>
>> Why don't you tell us a bit about your game, and/or show us some
>> url?
> http://jigstar.ath.cx:1024/files/guitar.png
> (URL should work unless my server's down)
> There's a preview of one of the puzzles. The first town, Cyphen, is
> a sort of dead-zone afterlife you end up in for various
> reasons. Picture a town covered with snow, streetlamps, factories,
> and a clock tower. Trolley tracks creep their way across the river
> and thrown the city. That puzzle is a large fountain-like structure
> in which players collaborate to first tune the guitar by rotating
> the gears (which are too large right now, making the rest of Cyphen
> too large) and then press patterns on frets.
>
> The game itself (currently but not finally titled PerlRL, perl
> roguelike) is a multiplayer roguelike, so see
> nethack/crawl/adom/tome for great examples of the genre.
I'm a bit familiar with nethack.
> PerlRL currently has a sort of steampunk flair to it, but that's
> rapidly getting blended with my newer ideas. I can get a tech demo
> distributed easily assuming your platform has perl and ncurses and
> some modules, working on producing a plain executable for the
> rest. ANything else you'd like to know?
I'm personally not interested in a demo at the moment; do have have
perl and ncurses, and should be able to make them work together.
That'll be fine for now.
> And I like the base, Johann. Reminds me of what I had come up with
> myself:
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> \ \|__|/ /
> \/ \/
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> ---| |---
> /\____/\
> / /| |\ \
> \/ |__| \/
>
> But it just doesn't look as much like a cog as the larger examples in
> the picture do. I guess it might just be a tradeoff
This one is a bit more like it -- and can probably be tweaked further
-- should, maybe, if you're gonne use it. Do you want it larger?
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!... (_) ...!
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The veritable experts in here may be able to come up with something
better, after all, I'm just a newbie ;-P
Johann
dabre...@gmail.com
I like the dotted style, but I ended up drawing something with a bit
more defined outline:
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/\ | | /\
\ \|_|/ /
___\/ \/___
|___| |___|
/\___/\
/ /| |\ \
\/ |_| \/
If anyone has suggestions for improvements, I'm all ears -- I enjoyed
drawing this even though I'm not too good at it. I'll post a demo/
trailer of the gear's usage in the game as soon as the game reaches
that point. Thanks for the ideas!
Veronica Karlsson
> Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> > dabreegs...@gmail.com writes:
Round stuff is tricky! :-)
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Faux_Pseudo
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RHCP
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Veronica Karlsson
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> RHCP
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http://www.acronymfinder.com/RHCP.html
Red Hot Chili Peppers (band)
Right-Hand Circular Polarization
Remote Host Configuration Protocol
?
Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen
> Faux_Pseudo wrote:
>> _.-In alt.ascii-art, Veronica Karlsson wrote the following -._
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>> RHCP
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> http://www.acronymfinder.com/RHCP.html
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> Red Hot Chili Peppers (band)
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> Right-Hand Circular Polarization
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> Remote Host Configuration Protocol
>
> ?
http://park6.wakwak.com/~airs/freepaper/2002.04/rhcp_logo.jpg
Veronica Karlsson
Aha! :-) (YOU add the text around the star thingy!)
Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen
> Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote:
>> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
>>> Faux_Pseudo wrote:
>>>> _.-In alt.ascii-art, Veronica Karlsson wrote the following -._
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>>>> RHCP
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>>> http://www.acronymfinder.com/RHCP.html
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>>> Red Hot Chili Peppers (band)
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>>> Right-Hand Circular Polarization
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>>> Remote Host Configuration Protocol
>>>
>>> ?
>> http://park6.wakwak.com/~airs/freepaper/2002.04/rhcp_logo.jpg
>
> Aha! :-) (YOU add the text around the star thingy!)
I just added them inside ;)
Here are some of the gears I've been working on and some diddles they spawned.
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Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen
> Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote:
>> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
>>> Faux_Pseudo wrote:
>>>> _.-In alt.ascii-art, Veronica Karlsson wrote the following -._
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>>>> RHCP
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>>> http://www.acronymfinder.com/RHCP.html
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>>> Red Hot Chili Peppers (band)
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>>> Right-Hand Circular Polarization
>>>
>>> Remote Host Configuration Protocol
>>>
>>> ?
>> http://park6.wakwak.com/~airs/freepaper/2002.04/rhcp_logo.jpg
>
> Aha! :-) (YOU add the text around the star thingy!)
I gave it another go.
I started with a conversion and used the watermark technique to
rework every letter and the lines.
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I like how it turned out.
Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
> I like how it turned out.
Yup, very nice indeed ;)
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Troy Piggins
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That's awesome! Well done.
--
Troy Piggins
(RHCP fan)
Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen
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I stumbled upon one of Joans flowers and noticed how much like gears it looked so I've
rediddled it into this :
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( \ / )
`..oOOo..'
.--.oOOOOOOo.--.
( :oO( )Oo: )
`--'oOOOOOOo`--'
.''oOOo'`.
( / \ ) jgs/CeeJay
'-' `-'
Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen
Here is a repost of a wotsit I posted back in November 2001
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No longer a wotsit - I now see that it's gears.
Without the bolts :
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More variations :
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They fit together nicely :
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(_/ \_) (_/ \_)
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