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Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
harrymcc writes "Forty-two years ago, Russian scientists created an impressive sequence of a cat walking about — and it was all the more impressive given that the 'CGI' involved rendering hundreds of images of the cat as ASCII art, then printing out the sequence image by image and photographing it."
...lolcats turn 42.
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
This animation was with with the Russian version, called ASCIISKI.
however, in ascii-art ASCII is an abbriviation of "Abnormal String of Characters Is the Image"
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Is that what lil' john is singing about?
Everyday You see me is the worst day of my life -Office Space
A year later, American scientists created an impressive sequence of a man walking about the lunar surface...
This is of course neat to see, but I think it's clearly a rotoscoped sequence transferred to a printout (which is pretty cool too). Not to quibble, but this might be a better example of full-on ASCII animation:
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ - The classic ASCII anim of Episode IV.
One assumes this was printed on the Model-KI teletype, aka the KITTY.
Anybody want a peanut?
..."Worker and Parasite"?
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
Impressive would have been two consecutive hits on the cat with a railgun...
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
...Russian scientists with access to a computer smoked some pot.
Since ASCII stands for "American" Standard Code for Information Interchange
You've got it all wrong. It stands for "American Society of Cat Illustration Innovation," informally known as the LOL Society.
... and then they built the supercollider.