Toonbots archive - episode published 20070215
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The, um, well, the metacartoonist is at his usual loss of words when it comes to early misfires of any Toon-o-Matic changes, in this case
the re-addition of character drawing into the Toon-o-Matic toolkit. Of course, a sufficiently perspicacious reader will have no difficulting
in discerning the manifold ways in which this episode, superficially flawed though it is, in reality reflects a much deeper level of perfection
approaching the ineffable, that deeper level being the level always considered by the metacartoonist to be his true canvas; the actual arrangement
of pixels upon your screen, be that arrangement ever so precisely determined by the ineluctible workings of the Toon-o-Matic's definitional
clockwork, can only be a pale, wan indication of the true meaning of the actual concept it embodies -- this, of course, is always the case in any
artistic endeavor (that artistry of course even including the composition of the meanest shopping list or telegram), but the very imperfections of
the current actual version of the Toon-o-Matic code vis-a-vis the theoretical Toon-o-Matic which all current versions must perforce
approximate serve especially to highlight those very vicissitudes of expressive failure, thus making the Toon-o-Matic, and by extension, Toonbots
as a whole and even, Dear Reader, you, a powerful and unique symbol of the set of all possible universes of discourse.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon panel-h="150" width="700" rowformat="1" tag="toon20070215"> <panel> <caption location="top center, down 5, right 100" font-style="italic" text-decoration="line-through" box="no" id="dcaption">DOWNLOAD SAMSUNG BODY PARTS!!!</caption> <draw shape="scribble" loops="12" stroke="yellow" width="2" area="!dcaption[over]: extend left 20; extend up 20; extend down 20; extend right 20"/> </panel> <panel fill="rgb(151,226,255)" arrow="top"> <character name="mao" action="leaves"/> <caption location="bottom middle" color="red">Hey, Fred! I see you're making some changes here...</caption> </panel> <panel> <draw shape="circle" fill="blue" center="panel: middle, down 10" radius="40" character="circle"/> <dialog who="circle">Je ne suis pas une circle.</dialog> <character name="me"/> </panel> <panel> <panel fill="rgb(200,200,255)"> <character name="mao" action="leaves"/> <caption location="bottom middle" color="red">... And I mean that in the nicest possible way.</caption> </panel> <panel fill="white"> <caption location="bottom right" color="blue">NEXT: ... HOLY TOLEDO.</caption> </panel> </panel> </cartoon> |
