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..."

Comments

Damn...

[Aliencow]

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 !

Re:Damn...

[aiyo]

Me: Hey check out this new ASCII image I made.
Friend: Oh cool send it over.
Me: O
Friend: OMFG YOU NASTY SON OF A BITCH IM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!111
Me: Hahahahahahaha

*Had to repost, fixed formatting. From now on I vow to preview frist.

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Eye Damage?

[Blaine Hilton]

This looks interest, but could watching this on your computer screen cause long-term vision damage? Perhaps I'll wait until the DVD with PC speaker sound comes out...

Go calculate something

Princess in Ascii

[Kircle]

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... :)

Mirror

[NETHED]

Save the guy some bandwidth. Click here for it.

Is It Just Me?

[Snowspinner]

Is it just me, or are the special effects and CGI on that more realistic than Episodes I and II?

Why Did He Do It?

[dupper]

Simple. Refer to his other page, the jet powered beer cooler.

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.

PERL Asciimation

[ndetroit]

And here's an excellent implementation of it in PERL:

http://okcomputer.antiflux.org/~grant/asciimation. html

Re:PERL Asciimation

[bn557]

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

Re:PERL Asciimation

[Anonymous Coward]

you can also do this with aalib and mplayer

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ASCII Babes

[notestein]

And let's not forget the ASCII Babes.

Re:ASCII Babes

[Monkeyman334]

Another good site for ascii pr0n is space bar cowboy

Re:ASCII Babes

[Jugalator]

Or just asciipr0n.com

Request denied

[Faust7]

Just please don't make any ASCII pr0n movies...

Rather a tall order, with Portman as she is...

...nope, don't think I can refrain. Sorry!

Watch it via telnet

[therevolution]

Use the console, Luke!

telnet blinkenlights.nl

Re:Oops

[Malacca]

So long as it wasn't a Jar-Jar file ...

Re:No way...

[daw]

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.

Re:This is why I read /.

[WegianWarrior]

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.

Please sit down Mr. Lucas...

[Chiggy_Von_Richtoffe]

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.

--
Dude: Why did you just blow off Jenny?
Dude2: You Kidding! I'm waiting for Famke Jansen to call me back.

This is not cool

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:This is not cool

[26199]

I agree... licences, anyone? Software isn't free by default...

Too Late...

[heli0]

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"

ASCII

[Jason1729]

ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

Jason
ProfQuotes

ascii porn

[nsda's_deviant]

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

Re:Oops

[addaon]

All jar files are zip files...

If you like ASCII 'Art'

[OverlordQ]

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?

Re:Other stuff on the website

[ecchi_0]

UPDATE: Sunday 29th July 2001 As this site has appeared on www.slashdot.org and is experiencing slightly increased traffic I would like to add a few extra comments...

Actually, it HAS been a slashdot story :)

But did he intentionally leave them wide open....?

[bad_fx]

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.

TTY Quake & UT

[mlk]

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 :)

Spoilers

[CPD]

warning - the asciimation contains spoilers for episode IV

Jeez - nothing but perverts here

[RealityMogul]

Is anybody else surprised at the number of posters that had the link to an ASCII version of Deep Throat readily available?

Re:Jeez - nothing but perverts here

[teamhasnoi]

Hey, we're only products of our enviroment! Look at the last 3 story titles:

AMD: No Grease For You!
Silicon Valley Has Learned to Love the Bust
Developers: Reading Lips In Software

Frankly, I'm shocked and dismayed. Won't someone think of the children?

Re:This is why I read /.

[Gogl]

I guess you haven't seen the "Die Jar-Jar!" skit, already implemented by the same guy responsible for all this asciimation in the first place. It's available here. Or for those who don't trust html links: http://asciimation.co.nz/diejarjar.html

Throwback?

[DarwinDan]

It's like a throwback to the 1960's...I can just smell the fresh punch cards...

YASWAM

[matt-fu]

Yet Another Star Wars Asciimation Mirror

for you macheads

[JiNG]

For all you macheads out there:

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_Cod e/ QuickTime/Goodies/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample.htm

For those without a browser

[Swoopy]

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

telnet blinkenlights.nl

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

Just in case of slashdotting ...

[trashyspaceman]

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

Other ASCII Art links...

[radd0]

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

This sounds wrong

[Gossy]

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.

Re:Oops

[SavingPrivateNawak]

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...

Re:But did he intentionally leave them wide open..

[semaj]

Yep, but the JAR container is actually just a ZIP file containing:

• 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.

Re:No way...

[Sheriff Fatman]

Yeah... but after a couple of minutes, you don't even see the code any more; all you see is blonde, brunette, redhead...

perl player revisited

[PinkFreud]

Sorry for the repost. Was logged out.

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/asci imation.pl.

Try not to abuse this server too much, please.

Again with the "download = theft" argument...

[kilroy_hau]

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.

Re:Oops

[NanoGator]

"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. ;)

Re:Nice stunt (warning: goatse.cx)

[Tablizer]

1. Trick people into looking at blinking goatcex
2. They have mental trauma
3. Have expensive therapist standing by
4. Profit!