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Star Wars Asciimation Revisited

Posted by timothy on from the hey-it's-from-1977-after-all dept.

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..."

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  1. Mirror by NETHED · · Score: 5, Informative

    Save the guy some bandwidth. Click here for it.

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  2. Watch it via telnet by therevolution · · Score: 5, Informative
    Use the console, Luke!

    telnet blinkenlights.nl

  3. Re:No way... by daw · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually there is an ASCII version of the porn movie "Deep Throat." Seriously.

    Unlike the hand-drawn Star Wars one, it seems to have been made by some kind of automatic transformation of a ripped video stream.

  4. Re:PERL Asciimation by bn557 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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  5. If you like ASCII 'Art' by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?

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  6. For those without a browser by Swoopy · · Score: 4, Informative

    From any computer hooked up to the internet, try this :

    telnet blinkenlights.nl

    I thought this wasn't really new, but hey ....

  7. Other ASCII Art links... by radd0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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
    http://www.thuglife.org

    Acheron Scene Art/News Portal
    http://www.acheron.org

    Joan Stark's ASCII gallery
    More 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/

    -r
  8. This sounds wrong by Gossy · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.