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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. Damn... by Aliencow · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 !

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

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

    Save the guy some bandwidth. Click here for it.

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    --sig fault--
  4. Is It Just Me? by Snowspinner · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    Philip Sandifer's academic website
  5. Why Did He Do It? by dupper · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.

  6. PERL Asciimation by ndetroit · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

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

    1. 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

      --
      Humans are slow, innaccurate, and brilliant; computers are fast, acurrate, and dumb; together they are unbeatable
  7. ASCII Babes by notestein · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And let's not forget the ASCII Babes.

    --

    www.bannination.com Two things float to the top he

    1. Re:ASCII Babes by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Informative

      Or just asciipr0n.com

      --
      Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
  8. Request denied by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny
    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!

    --
    The coolest voice ever.
  9. Watch it via telnet by therevolution · · Score: 5, Informative
    Use the console, Luke!

    telnet blinkenlights.nl

  10. Re:Oops by Malacca · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  11. 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.

  12. Please sit down Mr. Lucas... by Chiggy_Von_Richtoffe · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  13. This is not cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  14. Too Late... by heli0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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"

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    Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
  15. ASCII by Jason1729 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

    Jason
    ProfQuotes

  16. ascii porn by nsda's_deviant · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  17. Re:Oops by addaon · · Score: 3, Informative

    All jar files are zip files...

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    I've had this sig for three days.
  18. 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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    Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
  19. But did he intentionally leave them wide open....? by bad_fx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  20. TTY Quake & UT by mlk · · Score: 3, Informative

    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 :)

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    Wow, I should not post when knackered.
  21. Jeez - nothing but perverts here by RealityMogul · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Jeez - nothing but perverts here by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
      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?

  22. Re:This is why I read /. by Gogl · · Score: 3, Funny

    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

  23. for you macheads by JiNG · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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

  24. 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 ....

  25. Just in case of slashdotting ... by trashyspaceman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  26. 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
  27. 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.

  28. Re:Oops by SavingPrivateNawak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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...

  29. Re:But did he intentionally leave them wide open.. by semaj · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.
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    Meep meep
  30. Re:No way... by Sheriff+Fatman · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    -- Open Source: It's mad, but you don't have to work here to help.
  31. perl player revisited by PinkFreud · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.