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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."

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  1. In other news... by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...lolcats turn 42.

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    1. Re:In other news... by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm in ur commune, stealin ur moviez!

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  2. Re:ASCII? by riker1384 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This animation was with with the Russian version, called ASCIISKI.

  3. Re:ASCII? by Xiph · · Score: 4, Funny

    however, in ascii-art ASCII is an abbriviation of "Abnormal String of Characters Is the Image"

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  4. Re:ASCII? by Slack0ff · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that what lil' john is singing about?

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  5. That's nothing! by d1r3lnd · · Score: 5, Funny

    A year later, American scientists created an impressive sequence of a man walking about the lunar surface...

    1. Re:That's nothing! by tecnico.hitos · · Score: 3, Funny

      Who cares about the moon when we can has kittehs.

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  6. Printer by FrankDrebin · · Score: 4, Funny

    One assumes this was printed on the Model-KI teletype, aka the KITTY.

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  7. Did anyone else think of... by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..."Worker and Parasite"?

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  8. 42 years ago... by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Russian scientists with access to a computer smoked some pot.