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The Green Herring

If you think is a strange and obscure format, wait till you hear about ! It was an early vector art format intended for BBSes that debuted in 1992, in the tail end of the BBS era, and thus didn't get much traction outside the . And I just drew in it--specifically a portrait of one of my avatars from the indie game "ZOZ". It's a very stylized picture compared to my usual art, but I like how it came out!

Over a purple background that fades toward the left, we see a skunk person from the shoulders up with a purple turtleneck dress, and white hair that falls over their left side down to half of their neck. They have white eyes with no visible pupils or irises. Half of their tail is visible to the left, behind them. To the right, in the bright area of the background, is "ZOZ" in large letters with the first Z backwards, over black text reading "Avatar No. 17 Variant 14". Below it is a box with white text reading "Original character design, original sprite, and artwork by The Green Herring". In the upper-right corner is the URL "thegreenherring.neocities.org" in white text over a black rectangle. In the lower-right is the signature "TGH! 2023" in a black box, where "TGH!" and "2023" are stacked atop each other, and each column of this text is colored from dark gray, to dark green, to light green, and finally white.
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The Green Herring

"ZOZ", where the sprite I based this picture on comes from, runs off a fork of the ZZT engine and thus uses an EGA graphics display, utilizing . The ANSI originated in the BBS era, which was accessed primarily with IBM PCs that used the "code page 437" character set. To this day, text art remains a principal component of the wider artscene, if not *the* main component.

A 16x8 grid of ANSI art figures consisting mainly of squirrels. Highlighted with a red box is a skunk wearing a purple turtleneck dress, with the sleeves separate from the dress, silver bracers, silver ankle guards, and their right leg visible.
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The Green Herring

, as a vector art format, consists of drawing instructions. As such, if one were to view the original RIPscrip file for this image on a contemporary computer, or through an appropriately-coded modern viewer, they will be able to see the individual shapes used in the picture draw themselves one by one, as shown here in this GIF:

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The Green Herring

If my redraw of this piece (from chitter.xyz/@TheGreenHerring/1) was required to draw itself layer-by-layer in front of the viewer like did in its day, this is approximately what it would look like (shrunken size and GIF crunching of the background gradient aside):

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