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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. Impressive? by Darth+Sdlavrot · · Score: 0, Troll

    You mean like hand painting 160,000+ cels and then photographing them? To create 90 minute feature length films?

    If I'm not mistaken, Disney and Warner Brothers, to name two, were doing that long before 1964.

    This is somehow special because it was "CGI" -- ASCII or KOI-8 art printed out and photographed?

    Bah. Go ahead, mod me down, but I"m unimpressed.