[DGD] Impressed with DGD

[Christopher Darque]

--- Par Winzell <zell at skotos.net> wrote:
> I'm still not sure what was meant about the part about the
> original query where Christopher worried about the efficiency
> of the ASCII art computation? presentation? output? 
> manipulation? More specifics would aid an answer.

In the standard LP style the codes for color are rather
long as in: %^blue%^ or %^b%^

When you assemble a picture these characters count in the
overall string length, that is the first problem. Imagine
that you want a field of mostly green grass but want to
add touches of yellow flowers. For a 1 characer yellow *
you actually have %^b%^*%^g%^ which is 11 characters.

Second, because of this format doing any manipulation of
a created image is a huge pain. I had to do a lot of work
to develop scanners to isolate the color codes, remember
where they were, remove them, then alter the picture and
restore the color codes. This is so much that mostly I
have always treated a created image as an untouchable
thing.  If it needs to be changed I regenerate a totally
new picture with the new specs.

I think with DGD I can have very large strings, so some
of these problems will not be as massive, but the ability
to manipulate the images is still going to be a trick.

What I would like to have is a color system that is either
2 characters %b or one that uses non-standard characters
that are not used in normal text for the colors. The single
character color code is like a dream to me, with that I
would be able to do a whole host of things that I have
always had to avoid.


A.T
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