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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"
Blah blah sig blah blah blah irony blah blah
A year later, American scientists created an impressive sequence of a man walking about the lunar surface...
One assumes this was printed on the Model-KI teletype, aka the KITTY.
Anybody want a peanut?
..."Worker and Parasite"?
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