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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..."
Let's hope that the trolls won't find a way to combine the BLINK tags and ascii art to make an animated goatse guy !
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I would encourage someone to make an ascii porn! Just think... work safe porn!
----- sXe
Go calculate something
I just saw a little of it. Did anyone think of "He-Man" when the princess first showed up?? I guess the translation from video to ascii isn't always pretty... :)
-- Kircle
Save the guy some bandwidth. Click here for it.
--sig fault--
Is it just me, or are the special effects and CGI on that more realistic than Episodes I and II?
Philip Sandifer's academic website
If you were drinking so much you need jet power to cool at a rate equal to your consumption, you're perception may be so reduced, as well.
And here's an excellent implementation of it in PERL:
. html
http://okcomputer.antiflux.org/~grant/asciimation
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And let's not forget the ASCII Babes.
www.bannination.com Two things float to the top he
I wonder if they ASCII'fied Episode I, would that make Jar-jar tolerable?
wow, that's amazing! I've never been able to get one of those Magic Eye things to work 'til now!
-calyxa
Decay! Decay! Decay! -Helium
Rather a tall order, with Portman as she is...
The coolest voice ever.
telnet blinkenlights.nl
So long as it wasn't a Jar-Jar file ...
oh great! just what we need is for this guy to *actually* finish this and have George Lucas use ILM & Skywalker Studios include a "Special Delux Uber-Platinum Edition" with "THX-MIDI" and "Colour ASCII". *sigh* Knowing the madness of King George, he really will do this. Hopefully he'll have the good sense to show Jar-Jar being ripped to pixels by Chewy.
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Dude: Why did you just blow off Jenny?
Dude2: You Kidding! I'm waiting for Famke Jansen to call me back.
Sorry - even though this is a goofy project, this is THIS guys project, and if he doesn't want any one else working on it, it's NOT cool to take his code.
Just please don't make any ASCII pr0n movies...
The Ascii Art Ensemble
"the Ascii Art Ensemble has taken the 1972 porn movie 'Deep Throat' and converted it into moving ascii"
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
Jason
ProfQuotes
its not that bad
http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups.html
http://www.subterrane.com/asciiporn.shtml
a lot of the time your staring at the screen and you say out loud, "oh thats an interesting character to use for the nipple"
maybe i shouldve posted anonymouslly
All jar files are zip files...
I've had this sig for three days.
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.
Why make them when the all-time classic has already been made in ASCII? Okay, stop salivating. Presenting... 3... 2... 1...
Deep Throat in ASCII
Actually, it HAS been a slashdot story :)
aah.. lovely
I've just gotta ask... Did he intentionally leave his code, etc there for download? If not then linking to it is... well... not cool.
it's debian!
'Yup, Luke whining "But I wanted to go into town and get the ASCII power converteeeerrrrrssss!!! *simper*" would be
30 '*'
23 '_'
12 #
34 '.'
19 '(' and ')'
7 'v'
4 ','
2 'oo'.
Tough one, that scene.'
On a more serious note, if you have the mind of a 14 year old, you'll most likely snicker when Luke tries out the lightsaber for the first time.
hehehe
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.
warning - the asciimation contains spoilers for episode IV
Is anybody else surprised at the number of posters that had the link to an ASCII version of Deep Throat readily available?
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.
I don't know whether to laugh or beat your ass.
It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. - Robert Anson Heinlein
That's the most imaginative way I've seen it done in a while:
1) Get what looks like a magic-eye image
2) tell people to stare at it
3) after about 30 secs switch it to the goatse.cx guy
So ya, don't click the above link. And mods - get to work...
It's like a throwback to the 1960's...I can just smell the fresh punch cards...
$DEITY bless $NATION
Yet Another Star Wars Asciimation Mirror
...But not all zip files are jar files
For all you macheads out there:
d e/ QuickTime/Goodies/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample.htm
Here's a link to a little Apple prog that will play*any* QT movie in the Terminal (as ascii).
Very cool stuff.
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Co
From any computer hooked up to the internet, try this :
....
telnet blinkenlights.nl
I thought this wasn't really new, but hey
wget http://www.asciimation.co.nz/SwPlay.jar
;)
unzip -j swplay.jar data/sw1.txt
perl -pe 'if(/^(\d+)\s*$/){select undef,undef,undef,$1/15;$_="\e[H\e[J"}' sw1.txt
Tada, three lines and it plays, I bet that java applet uses more than that.
Does 4 years later consititute a dupe?
with aalib under linux, you can turn your regular-old-porn into ascii art porn. mplayer -vo aa
I fired up my 1600x1200 console and watched about 20 mins of the matrix before my eyes started to bleed. Quite fun.
I took the liberty to copy a few frames from the movie for all to see. Unfortunately I reduced the resolution just a little.
; ) Here's luke
-- Here's the light sabre
( o ) ( o ) Here's pricess leah
(: o Here's when luke realised
leah's his sister
-m
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/
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.
actually i think all zip files are jar files. I am not trolling. Zip came first - remember that.
Im not a Java programmer but... isn't a JAR file just platform independent bytecode - eg, already compiled? You can decompile it, but you lose any code that is not used or comments etc?
"I love deadlines. I love the wooshing sound they make as they fly past" Douglas N Adams
When they say "left wide open in a zip file on his server"...
Is it "wide open" as "I did not rob this shop, the door was wide open, so it's not theft"?
Did the guy agree that you take this file and use it?
Just a question...
- 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
After they were slashdotted last month (and hated Slashdot in the process :)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
well spotted.
"I love deadlines. I love the wooshing sound they make as they fly past" Douglas N Adams
Actually, even though it's not a technical limitation, a JAR file is REQUIRED (by the spec) to have a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file. But you are quite right in that the .zip existed long before the .jars.
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.
shitty precedent gang!
to quote from news post 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.
and from his 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.
Can I offer to help to finish it?
Well, I would really like to finish this myself. I know that may take a long time but I ask people to be patient. There are three other, sorry four other, Star Wars films though if people are interested in asciimating those!
Besides the fact that the guy pretty much explains how he does it, can't any of you wizards code your own? And although he states that he'd like to release the code in the future, that doesn't mean a thing now.....oh, I see this was a "pre-emptive" code appropriation ...bah
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
This, no?
-uso.
Dreams, dreams, don't doubt dreams, dreaming children's dreaming dreams. Sailor Moon SS
Too late! Behold the first frame of my new masterpiece:
(.)(.)
I call it "Tits From a Distance".
"You can justify anything by putting it in quotes, adding a famous name and making it a sig" - Albert Einstein
it's "wide open" as in "I did not rob this coke can, the damn thing was on a machine that gave it to me after I inserted a coin and pressed a button"
If you put something on a web server, and somebody makes a "request" to download that file, it's yours for the taking.
You can always take the file out your server, or instruct the server not to give it.
Kilroy was here!
Glancing quickly through the links for the SW Ascimiation, I see no license for copying, modifying, or distributing code.
While independent derivations of similar projects would not be an infringement of copyright, taking and modifying this work without explicit permission, or license, by the author, is.
FSF Free Software and OSI Open Source are not labels applied to any code whose source happens to be available. They are terms which apply to specific works, for which specific reserved rights under copyright and other laws have been granted. Visit the Free Software Foundation's annotated list of licenses or OSI's approved licenses page for examples of Free Software and Open Source licenses. Links from these pages discuss terms and concepts underlying these licenses.
IANAL, TINLA.
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
what's the big deal?
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
Does anyone else thinks that the ASCII version of C3P0 looks just like Bender?
Karma: Chevy Kavalierma.
"Also, since this is an ASCII related post, must spam my program MosASCII [mosascii.com] (for windows, $8) :) "
;)
Sorry, we only like free software around here. Though your price is quite reasonable for the service you provide, we do not feel anybody should ever actually be compensated for their time. When you give it to us for free, we also want the source code too. Of course none of us will actually do anything to improve the software, we just want to make the point that we could fix it if we actually wanted to. Just being honest though, we only modify the software when we can use that to flip off M$.
So yes, it's appreciated, but your reasonable price is too high.
"Derp de derp."
Never underestimate the creative powers of high-tech virgins!
"All your base are belong to this file I send in order to have your advice."
Oh boy. My satire was modded as insightful. I detect a mod-bomb approaching at high velocity!
"Derp de derp."
Need slow-motion action or sometin?
// TODO
atheos.cx An OS of some sort.
analog.cx A logfile analyzer
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
The parent thread is NOT redundant. The guy has posted a url so that people can simply click to view the movie, rather than telnetting from the console.
Here's your link: wget -O - http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/deep.throat | gzip > ascii.gz
// TODO