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+ASCII Ponies
+============
+
+ASCII art of some characters from My Little Pony: Friendship is magic.
+
+Available Characters
+--------------------
+
+* Twilight Sparkle (Both as unicorn and as alicorn)
+* Rainbow Dash (Both with open and closed wing)
+* Fluttershy
+* Rairy
+* Pinkie Pie
+* Applejack
+* Derpy
+* Trixie (Both with and without hat)
+
+Scripts and stuff
+-----------------
+
+Each final character is divided into separate file, one for each color.
+The file name is what you'd put in an ANSI escape to make it colored.
+The script render_parts.php takes a directory as input and scans for such files.
+It produces the following kinds of output:
+
+* ANSI-Encoded Colored text (default)
+* Plaintext (if you pass nocolor)
+* SVG (if you pass svg)
+
+Being a PHP script it requires PHP in order to run it.
+
+The makefile will compile all of the above, the plaintext in the same directory 
+as the parent of the directory containing the various part files, everythin else
+in /rendered.
+It will also call Inkscape to generate PNG images from the SVG.
+
+You can cat the colored files on a terminal to see the fancy output (as long as 
+the terminal supports colors).
+
+Some blank ponies and a template directory can be found inside the 
+directory /Generic
+
+License
+-------
+
+Dual:
+
+* GPLv3+ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
+* CC-BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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