heh, yeah, i shoulda just merged the moment i noticed.
anyhoo, i'm posting this, in "release early, release often" model, more out of a need to calm the heck down! i'll be hitting burn-out in a week at this rate.
so... here's one of the computer generated ones (i think i used just gimp and aview for it ~ yes, gimp can save ascii),
and the manually made one i was working on. ~ it certainly could use a lot of refinement yet, but it's already a lot better than anything i've gotten out of attempts at automatic generation from images.
http://hastebin.com/cucolimaci.tex(the gimp saved one seems to have a few characters hastebin doesnt like, so the "VSIDO" has gone a bit italic. ~ not that it was all that legible in the first place)