make food! make egg!

Post by **http://yahoo.com/** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:07 am

re: the scaffold, apparently I wasn't paying attention at the time because I really meant to write "gallows" instead.

Post by **http://yahoo.com/** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:08 am

also I dare you to make as many pictures as you can using 10 lines.

Post by **MadTom** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:01 am

Dr. Dos wrote:madtom if it's an ascii char it's there for a reason.

Well yeah but how many people would actually know what the hell it meant

Zephyr · Post by **Zephyr** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:04 am

Tomsacold wrote:
Wikipedia wrote:The symbol [three horizontal lines] is often used to indicate an identity, or a congruence relation in modular arithmetic.
A bit obscure but I suppose it still counts

But those are stacked on each other like this:

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__
__

It's like an assignment operator with an extra line

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:06 am

i think the three lines in the zzt/kroz passage are meant to symbolise stairs, or a reinforced door.

i like it, it's an abstract icon

Post by **TTTPPP** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:03 pm

Post by **MadTom** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:48 pm

I never thought of it looking like stairs before, I suppose that was what Tim Sweeney had in mind

We just need to explain why omega is a lion and pi is a tiger and we're all set, I suppose

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:12 pm

the omega is a lion's mane, and the pi is a tiger's squareish head with an ear protruding from either side. or it may be two legs, a head and a tail. who can say?

but why are tigers cyan??????????????????

Jotz · Post by **Jotz** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:52 pm

What is ruffian lol.

Post by **http://yahoo.com/** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:17 am

Tomsacold wrote:We just need to explain why omega is a lion and pi is a tiger and we're all set, I suppose

the best explanation I saw for why omega is a lion is found on the zzt board in bernard the bard.

Post by **Alexis Janson** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:55 am

the congruence operator is used as a passage or teleporter in a lot of ascii games, sweeney was probably just borrowing from them.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:50 pm

there are only 254 chars to choose from anyways, how many look like doors? a grand total of three(let's say), and he needed one for a locked door. I think it just makes sense.

A cyan tiger would look pretty cool.

MageKing17 · Post by **MageKing17** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:31 am

Dr. Dos wrote:I have to wonder how they decided to arrange the things though since A is char 65.

0-31 are control codes (0 being null, 8 being backspace, 10 being newline, 13 being carraige return, etc.), 32 on are printable characters.

Alphabets work like this:

Uppercase:
32+32+letter number (I.E. 32+32+1 = 65 = "A")

Lowercase
32+32+32+letter number (I.E. 32+32+32+1 = 97 = "a")

Why 32? 2^5, baby. Huzzah for binary!

Post by **Quantum P.** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:16 am

I never thought about the character codes being based on 32 before, but now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense in that computery sort of way.

Post by **MadTom** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:01 pm

Yeah, I always tend to think things like that were more or less arbitrary, it's surprising the careful rationale that is ultimately behind things like that