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From: Marina.mermaid@Colorado.EDU (Neil Collins)
Subject: bedtime.gif - "A Bedtime Story" Disney's Ariel (by Dolph)
Organization: Mermaids R Us
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 09:09:09 GMT

   This picture is by Dolph.

bedtime.gif "A Bedtime Story" 320x200x16, 17437 bytes, checksum = 58053 :
   Ariel looks for a bedtime story for Flounder in the palace library.

A note from Dolph :
     One sees a great deal through a window when one has one's beak
     pressed up against the grate.  I was on my way back to the
     surface when I noticed a light on in the palace library and saw
     the depicted scene.  They had settled on "Beauty and the Beast,"
     for Flounder's bedtime story (Fish DO sleep, be it noted), since
     nobody really liked "Aladdin" all that much, and, try as they
     might, no one could find "The Lion King" among the _Classic
     Fairy Tales_ collections.  As THAT film has not yet played the
     sea floor, I personally can make no comparisions.  Ariel's
     literacy has been a subject of needless debate.  The scrolls are
     written on shagreen (look it up!) with an acid-based ink, while
     the codeces (ditto) are made of VERY thin metal, similarly
     humble servant would ever dream of telling Belle (especially as
     portrayed in Mr. Ito's very best picture of her) to EAT HER
     HEART OUT, as we are all quite fond of her and would never
     mention that Ariel's libraries in the palace and the grotto were
     several times bigger than even the Beast's...


   Dolph creates these on his Atari Mega 4 STE which currently has a maximum
resolution of 320x200 (horz x vert). There is a maximum of 16 colors which
are chosen from a color palette of 4096 colors (with 16 values for each RGB
component).