X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,476e5f704410f63c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fd588,476e5f704410f63c X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: llizard Subject: Re: ascii programs Date: 2000/02/16 Message-ID: <38AA8A7C.B00@TAKEOUTTHEGARBAGEyahoo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 586479671 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2hFp4.14$vg.1090@m2newsread.uni2.es> <38A91A06.7A76@TAKEOUTTHEGARBAGEyahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@idirect.com X-Trace: quark.idirect.com 950700669 216.154.7.253 (Wed, 16 Feb 2000 06:31:09 EST) Organization: posted via idirect.com Canada; zone 6A (or is it 5b?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 06:31:09 EST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation In article <2hFp4.14$vg.1090@m2newsread.uni2.es> "Matthew" wrote: > > hi, i've got a question: where can i get programs about transformation > pictures-ascii (web page, of course), and movies ascii too?. And in article , alfie@innocent.com (Gerfried Fuchs) wrote: > > llizard wrote: > > I'm not sure that I understand your question exactly but if you are > > looking for a program that will make text animations (ascii movies), > > Celia has one on her page > > http://members.xoom.com/albertopsq/ > > The program is called Analia > > Thanks for the hint - I'll look at that one sometime. I saw one of > those ascii-movies once. It's just a HUGE text-file with ^L in between > after each screen for redraw (or something similar code, without > cleaning the screen...). You can then just cat (or type, if you are in > an DOS-environment) the file. > It was an ascii-movie of the famous 70ties? movie "Deep Throat" - and > you could really see what was going on ;) Only the credits at the start > were hardly to read. > > On the other hand, the package mentioned later in this mail includes > aaflip, which is an ascii-art flic file player. It can handle files that > usually have the extension .fli or .flc. [snip] > The ascii-art library is the greatest thing I've found - it really > produces nice output, and you can interactively set the parameters for > better results. > > You can found it at > (according to the docs included), the > homepage is at [snip] > Gerfried Fuchs Actually, I was referring to Javascript animations such as the kind that I do. They can't really be termed as movies - they are more like short clips. But someone has come up with a Java type of ASCII-animation. Go to: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/index.html There is a shorter Java ASCII-movie using a similar technique that Bob Haschart made at: http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/SpotBalloon.html | | | .--_ _.-'"> | `-_ `.__.-====----===~~ ( / \ | ) |/ a| | \ \ _-~\ \ | ) / / `.\_-P | | / /~---____. || | / /,' | || ___ | / ,'/_ | ||_ .' `. | / /|__)) | |_)) | | | |__)) |__)) `.___,&-=-__--_ | | Bob Haschart | There is also a DOS(?) thing called VT; I think it is ANSI but it is text based. The animations made with this sort can be viewed using a page down technique (resizing your text window to exactly the right size and hitting the "pagedown key") Before I had the applet required for Bob's movie, I used that technique to see it. That is the real advantage to the Java versions, they don't require any manipulation of characters that the Javascript versions do. As for the gif to ASCII program, I don't usually copy other drawings but draw directly with the keyboard so have no need for such a thing. But I'm glad to hear that one works half decently. NOTE: I never pick up my mail from the yahoo address. If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca _/ | ,^%--- llizard aka ejm |_____| __<_ \ Dejanews is so handy! --- == >/ [_____] __>,^ ASCII-ar+ and ASCII-anima+ions ejm| | //| | http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/