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From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: ML tetris (and Hextris)
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Date: 19 Apr 91 21:32:38 GMT
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I've been informed that the Hextris pieces that I posted earlier:

>   *    *   *    *     *    *   *    *     *   **                  *
>   *    *   *     *   *    *     *   **   **   **    and the       *
>   *    *   *    *     *   *     *   *     *        nefarious     * *
>   *   *     *    *   *     *   *

were slightly in error.  The 6th and 7th ones are actually the same piece
rotated pi radians (180 degrees, 200 grads, 64800_arcs, etc.).  There are
actually ten different pieces, and their new, improved, bandwidth-wasting
graphical representations are:

    __      __    __     __                __             __          __ 
   /  \    /  \  /  \   /  \__          __/  \      __   /  \__      /  \  
   \__/    \__/  \__/   \__/  \        /  \__/   __/  \  \__/  \     \__/    
   /  \    /  \  /  \      \__/        \__/     /  \__/  /  \__/   __/  \  
   \__/    \__/  \__/      /  \__    __/  \     \__/     \__/     /  \__/
   /  \  __/  \  /  \__    \__/  \  /  \__/     /  \__   /  \     \__/  \
   \__/ /  \__/  \__/  \      \__/  \__/        \__/  \  \__/        \__/
   /  \ \__/        \__/                           \__/       
   \__/                                                        
    __            __
   /  \__        /  \
   \__/  \       \__/
   /  \__/     __/  \__
   \__/  \    /  \__/  \
      \__/    \__/  \__/

The border of the playing area looks sorta like this, but taller (spawn a
little mental animation subprocess and imagine the pieces falling):

                 __                              /  \
                /  \            __               \__/
                \__/         __/  \__            /  \
                /  \        /  \__/  \           \__/
                \__/        \__/  \__/           /  \
                /  \        /  \   __            \__/
                \__/        \__/  /  \__    __   /  \
                /  \            __\__/  \__/  \  \__/
                \__/           /  \  \__/  \__/  /  \
                /  \           \__/     \__/     \__/
                \__/         __/  \__            /  \
                /  \        /  \__/  \           \__/
                \__/        \__/  \__/           /  \
                /  \__    __    __    __    __   \__/
                \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \
                   \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/
                      \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/

My apologies to those of you who don't have 80-column displays or don't have a
backslash (\) character in your character set.  

Hope my previous post didn't inconvenience anyone.  Surely someone will have
this written by the end of the weekend...   ;-)

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