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ANSI art is considerably more flexible than ASCII art, because the particular
character set it uses contains symbols intended for drawing, such as a wide
variety of box-drawing characters and block characters that dither the
foreground and background color. It also adds accented characters and math
symbols that often find creative use among ANSI artists.
The popularity of ANSI art encouraged the creation of a powerful shareware
package called TheDraw coded by Ian E. Davis in 1986. Not only did it
considerably simplify the process of making an ANSI art screen from scratch,
but it also included a variety of "fonts", large letters constructed from box
and block characters, and transition animations such as dissolve and clock. No
new versions of TheDraw emerged after version 4.63 in 1993, but in later years
a number of other ANSI editors appeared, some of which are still maintained
today.
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