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Color Ascii Art Library

Posted by michael on from the news-you-can-use dept.

thedj_sd writes "As the true slashdot reader you just love ascii art of course. You have toyed around with aalib or maybe you use it all the time to watch your pr0n :) Well VLC media player's senior developer sam was bored some time ago and created libcaca. The Colour AsCii Art library of which he himself says: 'I am perfectly aware that libcaca is the waste of time it looks to be. No need to tell me about that.' But you just can't help looking at that beautiful picture of Stitch, and Doom in coloured ascii is da bomb. It works on dos/windows, Linux and Mac OS X and there is a VLC plugin and SDL backend available."

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  1. Google cache link by thedj_sd · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.google.nl/search?q=cache:NtGVCbhHFTkJ:s am.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/+libcaca&hl=nl&ie=UTF- 8

  2. More ASCII Art by MouseR · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those interested, here's Text mode Quake and AsciiMac, wich seem to predate the previous one, including the X11 ASCII art thing.

    What is it with ASCII??

  3. Of course you could always just use quicktime by b-baggins · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple provides an ASCII quicktime movie player, here:

    http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Cod e/ QuickTime/Goodies/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample.htm

    There's nothing quite like watching the Matrix trailer in ASCII glory.

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    1. Re:Of course you could always just use quicktime by ichandarin · · Score: 3, Informative
      Oops. You got the address wrong!

      Here are the correct links:
      -The program itself + source are at:
      http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/ QuickTime/Goodies/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample/qtplyr.c. htm

      -And the sample video:
      http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/ QuickTime/Goodies/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample.htm

      Hope those links help.

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  4. Re:ANSI Art Library by WiKKeSH · · Score: 5, Informative

    While you're at it, you can check individual group's sites.

    http://www.senseimagery.com
    http://www.acid.org
    http://www.ice.org
    http://www.spreadthedisease. com
    http://www.spreadthedisease.com/27inch

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  5. Re:Wrong assumptions by MxTxL · · Score: 4, Informative

    Back in the stone age, you know, before 1990, when modem speed was measured in baud and 300 of them was pretty good, people used to connect to BBSes as their primitive form of an internet. These were sort of stand-alone websites that you had to dial into directly (yes, over real phone lines). Since 300 baud modems transmit data at dismally slow speeds (and besides computer graphics displays were still primitive) it was necessary to provide any graphics content in a format that was easily and quickly transmitted and supported by the hardware. And by hardware, we're talking about Commodores and Amigas and early IBM PCs.

    Today, it's primitive and low-res but Back In The Day(tm), this type of art was the shiz-nit. Art packs (ok, these were mostly ANSI, not ASCII but similar vein) were traded across the country from BBS to BBS.

    If you've never tried to draw anything with giant multicolored blocks, you can't understand the talent that goes into this art medium. The ACiD guys were REALLY good.

  6. Re:libCACA? by BigJim.fr · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Wow, now that is funny. In french, caca means poo
    > or shit. That guy just created "libshit".

    Actually Sam is French, so the humor is completely voluntary.