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Star Wars Asciimation Revisited
Treebeard the Ent writes "A few years ago, Slashdot did a story about a guy Who was creating a full motion Ascii version of Star Wars in Asciimation. This is a link to the source of the now infamous Star Wars ASCIIMATION project that has been evolving since 97. This guy has stated that he prefers to finish this project on his own (but you are welcomed to do any of the other Star Wars movies). In his FAQ's he has stated that he doesn't have time to support his Java applet nor the text files, so he would not be making them available for anyone. Fortunatally enough for those of us who are interested, he has left them wide open in a standard zip file on his server. So download and have fun... Just please don't make any ASCII pr0n movies..."
Save the guy some bandwidth. Click here for it.
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telnet blinkenlights.nl
Unlike the hand-drawn Star Wars one, it seems to have been made by some kind of automatic transformation of a ripped video stream.
Judging by this page, Jar-Jar wouldn't make it thru Ep1. Hard to be sure thought, as it looks like the site is in the prossess of getting slashdottet.
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
All jar files are zip files...
I've had this sig for three days.
http://ascii.dyne.org/
will render any video4linux source as ascii. had a ton of fun with this, and a projector earlier this semester playing 'matrix'.
Pat
Humans are slow, innaccurate, and brilliant; computers are fast, acurrate, and dumb; together they are unbeatable
You might like the AA Project. Their feats include:
Ascii Art GFX Library
Random dot Stereogram Generator
SVGAlib wrapper for AA-lib
Image Browser
And a very nice demonstration
For a list of cool ASCII-type programs that use AA-lib try their Homepage. ASCII quake anybody?
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Actually, it HAS been a slashdot story :)
Another good site for ascii pr0n is space bar cowboy
TTYQuake
:)
TTY UT
and the TTY UT movies
Movies!
Which work in Cygwin, very cool watch.
Plus the method used by TTY UT will work for ANY SDL-based Linux app, so matrix in ASCII
xterm -fn micro -geometry 240x150 -e aaxine -driver slang -width 240 \
-height 150 dvd://01.1 dvd://02.0 dvd://02.1 dvd://02.2 dvd://02.3 \
dvd://02.4 dvd://02.5 dvd://02.6 dvd://03.0 dvd://03.1 dvd://03.2
(so the pages says, never tried, must fix my linux install at some point
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
I ran across some demo code on apple's site that made is possible to watch any movie quicktime can play as a ascii movie in the terminal. Though it was cool for awhile, got to be a bit much though after a minute or two.
Or just asciipr0n.com
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Yet Another Star Wars Asciimation Mirror
From any computer hooked up to the internet, try this :
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telnet blinkenlights.nl
I thought this wasn't really new, but hey
Here are some additional ASCII art sites worth visiting, some of which host artwork dating back to the early 1970's...
The Textfiles.com Computer Art Collection
Features a wide range of computer-oriented text-based artwork beginning with teletype (RTTY) art which predates ASCII. An archive of archives.
http://artscene.textfiles.com/
The ACiD Artpacks Archive
Indexed and sorted by year. Hosts a collection of over 13 years of ASCII, ANSI, RIPscrip and other digital artwork.
ftp://artpacks.acid.org/pub/artpacks/
The Christ ASCII Archives
Indexed and sorted by artgroup. The authoritative archive of IBM-PC and Amiga ASCII art.
ftp://ftp.mimic.ca/pub/ascii/
Thuglife ASCII Art/News Portal
Acheron Scene Art/News Portalhttp://www.thuglife.org
http://www.acheron.org
Joan Stark's ASCII gallery
-rMore mainstream but rich in content regarding the different facets ASCII artscenes. Unfortunately this site is constantly plagued by Geocities bandwidth caps.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/
you can also do this with aalib and mplayer
From the FAQ:
Is the source code for the player and the text file available?
I can't really make these available yet. I don't have as much time as I would like for support or questions on the applet or the text file. I do plan to make them available when they are complete.
The news post here even says that he doesn't want it to be available, but says that he has left the source 'wide-open'. Hmmm.
- compiled Java classes,
- the uncompiled source (must have been put there deliberately), and
- a file "sw1.txt" containing all of the ASCII text used.
So it's easy enough to get at it all.Meep meep
Sorry for the repost. Was logged out.
i imation.pl.
A couple years back, I created a player for these 'movies' in perl (which is in use on blinkenlights.nl. It's a bit more than the one-liner, but it does play them smoothly (no flickering). It also supports Asciimation movies of other sizes (like Simon's Death of Jar Jar).
Player is available at http://mordor.rutgers.edu/~sauron/asciimation/asc
Try not to abuse this server too much, please.
They probably used aalib with mplayer/mencoder.
/path/to/movie.mpeg
To play any movie that mplayer can handle in ASCII (assuming you have aalib and mplayer compiled with support for it)...
mplayer -vo aalib
To compile mplayer with aalib support on Gentoo...
emerge aalib && USE="aalib" emerge mplayer
enjoy