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ASCII art
     
         (Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The
        fine art of drawing diagrams using the {ASCII} character set
        (mainly "|-/\+").
     
        See also {boxology}.  Here is a serious example:
     
           o----)||(--+--|<----+   +---------o + D O
             L  )||(  |        |   |             C U
           A I  )||(  +-->|-+  |   +-\/\/-+--o -   T
           C N  )||(        |  |   |      |        P
             E  )||(  +-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o      U
                )||(  |        |          | GND    T
           o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+
     
           A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier
           circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit
     
                                 Figure 1.
     
        And here are some very silly examples:
     
           |\/\/\/|     ____/|              ___    |\_/|    ___
           |      |     \ o.O|   ACK!      /   \_  |` '|  _/   \
           |      |      =(_)=  THPHTH!   /      \/     \/      \
           | (o)(o)        U             /                       \
           C      _)  (__)                \/\/\/\  _____  /\/\/\/
           | ,___|    (oo)                       \/     \/
           |   /       \/-------\         U                  (__)
          /____\        ||     | \    /---V  `v'-            oo )
         /      \       ||---W||  *  * |--|   || |`.         |_/\
     
        		//-o-\\
        	 ____---=======---____
             ====___\   /.. ..\   /___====      Klingons rule OK!
           //        ---\__O__/---        \\
           \_\                           /_/
     
        				    _____
        			    __...---'-----`---...__
        		       _===============================
          ,----------------._/'      `---..._______...---'
          (_______________||_) . .  ,--'
              /    /.---'         `/
             '--------_- - - - - _/
        	       `--------'
     
        			   Figure 2.
     
        There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the
        standard character names in the fashion of a rebus.
     
         +--------------------------------------------------------+
         |      ^^^^^^^^^^^^                                      |
         | ^^^^^^^^^^^            ^^^^^^^^^                       |
         |                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
         |        ^^^^^^^         B       ^^^^^^^^^               |
         |  ^^^^^^^^^          ^^^            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^      |
         +--------------------------------------------------------+
        	     "A Bee in the Carrot Patch"
     
                               Figure 3.
     
        Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an
        entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows.  One is
        shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
     
        	  (__)              (__)              (__)
        	  (\/)              ($$)              (**)
           /-------\/        /-------\/        /-------\/
          / | 666 ||        / |=====||        / |     ||
         *  ||----||       *  ||----||       *  ||----||
            ~~    ~~          ~~    ~~          ~~    ~~
          Satanic cow    This cow is a Yuppie   Cow in love
     
        			  Figure 4.
     
        {(http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html)}.
     
        (1996-02-06)