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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. Mirror by NETHED · · Score: 5, Informative

    Save the guy some bandwidth. Click here for it.

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  3. 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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  4. 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

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      Humans are slow, innaccurate, and brilliant; computers are fast, acurrate, and dumb; together they are unbeatable
  5. Watch it via telnet by therevolution · · Score: 5, Informative
    Use the console, Luke!

    telnet blinkenlights.nl

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

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

  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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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  11. 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.

  12. 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?

  13. 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

  14. 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
  15. 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...

  16. 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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