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Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968

Posted by timothy on from the doing-it-the-hard-way dept.

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. 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...

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

    ..."Worker and Parasite"?

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