program for authoring ASCII animations?

On Thu, 2011-05-26 22:04:17 -0600, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote: What kind of animation? There's "real ascii-art" authoring on one side (like what you get upon `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl'), or ascii-art'ized output of usual movies (like what you get with `mplayer -vo aa somevideo.file')? Real AA is probably mostly copying/modifying a hugh ASCII file containing the frames. (For the telnet output, the guys at http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ seem to have some java program, but it should be easy implementing something like that in shell together with inetd and a GNUish `sleep' (which can sleep fractions of a second.)) For AA'ized movies, I'd just do that: simply view the movie with eg. mpayer and it's AA output filter. It's probably somehow possible to redirect its output so that the software above can simply stream it. (Maybe that could even be done with mplayer and a good number of command line switches.) Searching for ASCII art on a Debian system, there are a good number of programs mentioned. Just to name some promising: aa3d - ASCII art stereogram generator aewan - ASCII-art Editor Without A Name cadubi - Creative ASCII Drawing Utility By Ian boxes - Textmode box- and comment drawing filter libaa1 - ascii art library libaa-bin - sample programs using aalib libcaca0 - colour ASCII art library MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: ...und wenn Du denkst, es geht nicht mehr, the second : kommt irgendwo ein Lichtlein her.