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Toonbots archive: episode published 4 January, 2001

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The metacartoonist careens on through the untracked wilderness of automated drawing with the continued cameo of the one and only BoxJam. Is it due to BoxJam's inimitable greatness of soul, or due to the fact that BoxJam is conveniently composed solely of ellipses?

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="200" width="600" rowformat="4">
<panel>
  <character name="boxjam" rel-h="50" rel-w="90">
    <draw type="ellipse" fill="rgb(151,226,255)"/>
    <point name="bridge" loc="middle up 5"/>
    <draw name="lefteye" fill="rgb(151,226,255)" type="ellipse" rel-h="20" rel-w="20" center="bridge left 15"/>
    <draw name="righteye" fill="rgb(151,226,255)" type="ellipse" rel-h="20" rel-w="20" center="bridge right 15"/>
  </character>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">Weird place.</caption>
  <character name="boxjam" action="modify">
    <draw name="lefteye" center="down 10"/>
    <draw name="righteye" center="right 5"/>
  </character>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">Kinda empty.</caption>
  <character name="boxjam" action="modify">
    <draw name="lefteye" center="up 10"/>
    <draw name="righteye" center="left 5"/>
  </character>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">Ow.</caption>
  <character name="boxjam" action="modify">
    <draw name="lefteye" center="down 73 left 10"/>
    <draw name="righteye" center="right 5"/>
  </character>
</panel>
</cartoon>