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I miss the days of the BBS era also. Anyone remember forum hacks, like VisionX? If anyone is interested, below is a coupled of good links.

Remember ACiD and iCE ANSI groups? http://www.acid.org/ http://www.ice.org/index.php?display=pack&packID=1 99207

I am not trying to promote or anything, but I got a great movie called BBS: The Documentary. It is a great 4 disc set documenting the history of the BBS scene. Their link is below. http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

If like collaborative art, also check out the ice.org gallery.

I'm Senior Staff of iCE.

Sad to say, ACiDreleased their Last Pack Ever a few months back, leaving iCE to be one of the last remaining 'old school' groups.

While we still have a lot of inactive members, our current crew still put out fantastic art, every single month.

I head up the iCE photography Division, releasing photos of an iCE-standard.

As you can see from the posts here, lots of iCE members are /. readers, and big in the geek world.

Slothy (Senior Staff) works in the gaming section, farmy being big in the open source / security niches, plus countless others.

Of interest is SketchCow, and his BBS documentary, which features interviews of old iCE members, and other members from the scene.

• Hmm... Maybe that's cause that's the tile that the submitter of this story worked on? It's a guy named "Ant" and he's got his own
• blog where his handle is ant and a contributor to that particular quilt on tiles.ice.org is named antaydos.

If you use mozilla/firefox, you can go on the page properties and download it from the "media" tab.

Or you can just download it from here as I just did that job to you ;)

What this really needs is a download button so I can download the composite quilt and use it as a desktop or something :D

I guess I'll just have to take a couple screenshots and stitch them together manually...

...though I do see that you can buy prints of the quilts thanks to CafePress.

Actually, you'll be pleased to know that iCE is much more than somewhat active. We're still releasing our digital art packs monthly, and I've been heading up the Photography Department for almost 12 months now.

Drop by when we're got getting destroyed ;)

You should check out another site that is very similar. tiles.ice.org (there was a /. story about it a couple years back but unsurprisingly it ground the server into little bits - time to give it another shot!).

The Tribute to Salvador Dali, Tribute to Van Gogh, and Tribute to M.C. Escher came out particularly well.

(disclaimer: I created the website, but that shouldn't take away from the art that others have done on it)

You should check out another site that is very similar. tiles.ice.org (there was a /. story about it a couple years back but unsurprisingly it ground the server into little bits - time to give it another shot!).

The Tribute to Salvador Dali, Tribute to Van Gogh, and Tribute to M.C. Escher came out particularly well.

(disclaimer: I created the website, but that shouldn't take away from the art that others have done on it)

You should check out another site that is very similar. tiles.ice.org (there was a /. story about it a couple years back but unsurprisingly it ground the server into little bits - time to give it another shot!).

The Tribute to Salvador Dali, Tribute to Van Gogh, and Tribute to M.C. Escher came out particularly well.

(disclaimer: I created the website, but that shouldn't take away from the art that others have done on it)

You should check out another site that is very similar. tiles.ice.org (there was a /. story about it a couple years back but unsurprisingly it ground the server into little bits - time to give it another shot!).

The Tribute to Salvador Dali, Tribute to Van Gogh, and Tribute to M.C. Escher came out particularly well.

(disclaimer: I created the website, but that shouldn't take away from the art that others have done on it)

If you want a more controlled mosaic image, check out tiles.ice.org. It's a collection of images created by artists where each artist bases their work given only the edges of the adjacent tiles on which to base their creation. They've come up with some pretty amazing finished pieces.

Australian money shrinks in the microwaves.

Unsure whther it's because it's different to the other money or because our microwaves are Southern Hemisphere microwaves.

Ah ok, here are the pictures

Easily the best starting camera. Pretty cheap to start off with, and they've got great Xmas specials on too.

It's powerful enough to shoot *great* snaps.. and simple enough for everyone to use, and you've got the fantastic range of EF lenses to upgrade to...

Snaps taken on this very model ->

Snap One

Snap Two

Easily the best starting camera. Pretty cheap to start off with, and they've got great Xmas specials on too.

It's powerful enough to shoot *great* snaps.. and simple enough for everyone to use, and you've got the fantastic range of EF lenses to upgrade to...

Snaps taken on this very model ->

Snap One

Snap Two

ANSI is where it's at.

INSANE CREATORS ENTERPRISES REPRAZENT! Keepin' it real, kickin' it old-skool.

ANSI is where it's at.

INSANE CREATORS ENTERPRISES REPRAZENT! Keepin' it real, kickin' it old-skool.

You mean like this?

IMO, the best thing from the BBS days was the top-notch ANSI art -- the stuff that took baseline ASCII and added ANSI color and extended characters to make some really cool stuff. Some of those guys could create some amazing images (anyone remember iCE, ACiD, and all those groups?). Actually, iCE is still around and cranking out some top-quality ANSI -- www.ice.org. Check 'em out, pretty impressive.

You can get the ACiD and iCE art packs from

ACiD

iCE

Probably the most famous would be ice.org with archives from the current day to way back when..

Probably the most famous would be ice.org with archives from the current day to way back when..

CiA

iCE

The problem is that ansis nowadays exist as gif and png's. Sending lots of people to all try to download 200k files off some smaller-bandwidth server is suicide.

But with that in mind, www.ice.org has all of the iCE Packs online, and even some pre-pack ansis (since iCE began in 1990 but groups didn't start releasing packs until around 08/1992). You can search for art there, but only among the iCE work. ACiD still has a website, but that seems to be down now. But their artpacks site is still online, with lots of old packs (not viewable on the web, so you'll need an ansi viewer) at here.

There is a more comprehensive web-viewable ansi archive of almost every major pack ever released, but it appears to be down right now. Check www.idledreams.net sometime in the future to see if it's come back online I guess, that's probably what you want.

Slothy
(disclaimer: I help run iCE)

This does not enable a cheap render farm - you've been able to do this with NT for a long time. Yes, it's nice because it's on Linux, so the cost per node is an NT license cheaper, the nodes are more stable, yada yada yada - #include . But it really doesn't suddenly enable real cheap render farms. (Check out Lemon)

People are singing and dancing in the streets because they think this signifies some sort of major effort and commitment to Linux by Alias/Wavefront. It doesn't - if this took more than a few days of an engineer's time then they have a really fucked up renderer. The real show of a commitment to Linux is the creation tools - even just a target date would be something. Until then it's really just hype. (Though granted, nice to hear for render farm admins)

You mean the state of an EGA textmode display when the blink bit is used as an intensity bit, which is most famous in iCE ANSI displays?

...hrm, probably not.

Actually, iDraw will have its own website at idraw.ice.org for reference. There isn't anything there yet, but keep an eye open.

Why would you use iDraw instead of TheDraw?

I don't even want to get into the list of feature differences that, if you were so inclined to draw a little ansi, makes iDraw superior, but I will post the partial feature list on idraw.ice.org right now.

http://idraw.ice.org.

-brian aka Mass Delusion, iCE Senior Staff
(massd@ice.org)