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generated. You can break this string into fixed width lines
via the Width attribute:

    print sightly( { SourceFile => 'helloworld.pl',
                     Width      => 40 } );

Generally, you should specify the Width attribute of I<built-in>
shapes. Notice that the Width attribute is ignored for F<.eye>
file shapes.

=head2 Shape Reference

The I<built-in> shapes are:

    banner      Linux banner command (/usr/games/banner -w Width)
                of text in BannerString attribute
    srcbanner   Linux banner command (/usr/games/banner -w Width)
                of source text
    siertri     A Sierpinski triangle (2**Width lines)
    triangle    A triangle (width Width characters)
    all         A shape consisting of all .eye shapes joined together
                (Width blank lines between each shape)

The F<.eye> file shapes distributed with this version of EyeDrops are:

    a             Horizontal banner of "a"
    acme          Perl/Parrot/Ponie Euro-hacker and modern artist who likes
                  the colour orange and enjoys having his bra-strap twanged
    adrianh       Perl qa expert
    alien         An alien (rumoured to be Ton Hospel, from the
                  Roswell archives circa 1974)
    alpaca        Lama pacos, from South America, with long shaggy hair
                  and related to the llama
    autrijus      The father of Pugs
    baghdad       Baghdad Bob aka Comical Ali
    beer          Beer glass designed by Matthew Byng-Maddick for the
                  cam.pm Beerfestival Perl Programming Contest 2002
    bighorn       Ovis canadensis (bighorn sheep) found in the Rocky Mountains
    bleach        Vertical banner of "use Acme::Bleach;"
    bottle        A bottle of beer
    bottle2       Abbreviated version of shape bottle
    bottle3       A bottle of champagne with a champagne glass
    bra           A bra
    buffy         Vertical banner of "Buffy"
    buffy2        Buffy's angelic face
    buffy3        Buffy riding a pony
    buffy4        Horizontal banner of "Buffy"
    camel         Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius, one hump)
    camel2        Another dromedary (from use.perl.org)
    camel3        London.pm's bactrian camel at London zoo
    campm         Horizontal banner of "cam.pm"
    candle        A Christmas candle
    china1        Chinese characters, roughly translated as
                  "God is added a year of seniority; human is added a
                  year of age, Spring fills the universe; luck and
                  happiness fills the family"
    coffee        A cup of coffee
    cricket       Australia are world champions in this game
    damian        The Acme namespace is all his fault
    dan           The father of parrot
    debian        Debian logo (contributed by Richard Hartmann)
    dipsy         Teletubbies Dipsy (also london.pm infobot name)
    eugene        Champion Perl golfer, Drs Eugene van der Pijll
                  of Utrecht, Holland
    eye           An eye
    flag_canada   Canada's flag, contributed by `/anick
    gelly         Featured speaker at every session of Y::E 2003, Paris
    golfer        A golfer hitting a one iron
    halloween     A witch riding a broomstick
    heart         A heart shape contributed by `/anick
    heart2        A heart shape modelled on one by Falkkin
    hipowls       A pair of hip owls
    japh          JAPHs were invented by Randal L Schwartz in 1988
    jon           Kick-started the Perl 6 development effort by smashing
                  a standard-issue white coffee mug against a hotel wall
    jon_oxer      Linux Australia bigwig (contributed by Paul Fenwick)
    kangaroo      A kangaroo
    kansai_pm     Kansai.pm's mascot (Tiger with Perl characters)
                  contributed by Takanori KAWAI (Japanese)
    kermit        Kermit the frog
    koaladile     A cross between a koala and a crocodile
    larry         Wall, Larry (as opposed to Russell Wall who is
                  Wall, Russ)
    larry2        Caricature of Larry contributed by Ryan King
    llama         Llamas are so closely related to camels they can
                  breed with them (their progeny are called camas)
    london        Haiku "A Day in The Life of a London Perl Monger"
    map_australia Map of Australia
    map_italy     Map of Italy
    map_japan     Map of Japan
    map_uk        Map of United Kingdom and Ireland
    map_world1    World globe, Asian view
    map_world2    World globe, African view
    map_world3    World globe, American view
    merlyn        Just another Perl hacker, aka Randal L Schwartz
    mongers       Perl Mongers logo
    moose         A moose
    moosecamel    A moose and a camel (modelled after http://irclog.perlgeek.de)
    mosquito      A mosquito
    music         A musical symbol
    naw           Naked Arm Wrestling (Y::E 2002, Munich)
    opera         Opera browser logo (contributed by Cosimo)
    panda         A panda designed by Yanni Ellen Liu
    parrot        Originally an April fool's joke, the joke was that
                  it was not a joke
    pgolf         Perl Golf logo (inspired by `/anick)
    pony          Horizontal banner of "Pony"
    pony2         Picture of a Pony
    pugs          Horizontal banner of "Pugs"
    pugs2         Picture of a Pugs dog
    riding        Horizontal banner of "riding"
    rose          A rose
    santa         Santa Claus playing golf
    santa2        Santa Claus carrying presents
    saturn        The planet Saturn
    schwern       is my bitch
    schwern2      Shape schwern without the banner
    simon         The inventor of parrot
    smiley        A smiley face
    smiley2       Pulling a face
    smiley3       A sad face
    smiley4       Another sad face
    snow          Snowflake designed by Matthew Byng-Maddick for the
                  cam.pm Christmas Perl Programming Contest 2002
    spider        A spider (tarantula)
    spoon         A wooden spoon
    thumbsup      A thumbs up shape modelled on one by Jiun
    tonick        Pictorial representation of a golf contest between Ton
                  Hospel and `/anick; colourful but not very suspenseful
    tpr           Vertical banner of "The Perl Review"
    uml           A UML diagram
    undies        A pair of underpants
    window        A window
    writing_perl  Perl in camel-style by Takanori KAWAI (Japanese)
    yanick        Caricature of `/anick's noggin
    yanick2       Uttered by `/anick during TPR02
    yanick3       Pictorial version of yanick2
    yanick4       Abbreviated version of shape yanick

It is easy to create your own shapes. For some ideas on shapes,
point your search engine at I<Ascii Art> or I<Clip Art>.
If you generate some nice shapes, please send them in so they
can be included in future versions of EyeDrops.

=head2 Shape Properties

All the F<.eye> shape files have a corresponding F<.eyp>
shape property file, specifying the shape's properties.

Currently, the allowed shape properties are:

    name
    nick
    description
    cpanid
    author
    authorcpanid
    source
    keywords

where valid keywords are:

    face
    person
    perlhacker
    animal
    object
    planet
    map
    flag
    sport
    underwear
    hbanner
    vbanner
    logo
    debian
    opera

To give an example of how shape properties might be used,
to find all shapes that depict just the faces of perl hackers:

    use Acme::EyeDrops qw(find_eye_shapes);
    my @perlhackers = find_eye_shapes('face',
                                      'person',
                                      'perlhacker');

Note that there is an implicit AND between each keyword;
that is, the above code finds all shapes with face AND
person AND perlhacker keywords.

Additionally, you may use OR in any argument, for example:

    my @perlhackers = find_eye_shapes('face',
                                      'person OR animal',
                                      'perlhacker');

finds all shapes matching face AND (person OR animal)
AND perlhacker.

Instead of using the API, as shown above, you may also use
the F<findshapes.pl> command in the F<demo> directory:

    findshapes.pl -h           (for help)
    findshapes.pl -v face person perlhacker

The last example displays the faces and properties of all
perl hackers.

Please note that these shape properties are experimental and
may change in future A::E releases.

=head1 BUGS

A really diabolical shape with lots of single character lines
will defeat the shape-pouring algorithm.

You can eliminate all alphanumerics (via Regex => 1) only if the
program to be converted is careful with its use of regular
expressions and C<$_>.
To convert complex programs, you must use Regex => 0, which
emits a leading unsightly double C<eval>.

The code generated by non-zero Regex requires Perl 5.005 or higher
in order to run; when run on earlier versions, you will likely
see the error message: C<Sequence (?{...) not recognized>.

If using Perl 5.18+, the generated file needs a leading
"use re 'eval'" when a postive value for Regex is used.

The converted program runs inside an C<eval> which may cause
problems for non-trivial programs. A C<die> statement or
an C<INIT> block, for instance, may cause trouble.
If desperate, give the C<TrapEvalDie> and C<TrapWarn>
attributes a go, and see if they fix the problem.