27 May
2011
27 May
'11
12:04 a.m.
Is anyone aware of an open source program for authoring ASCII
animations and playing them back on different terminals at different
baud rates with maximum fidelity?
Ideally it would be something that stores the animation as meta data
and not as raw escape codes for the terminal on which the animation
was authored.
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2:22 a.m.
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Richard wrote:
Is anyone aware of an open source program for
authoring ASCII
animations and playing them back on different terminals at different
baud rates with maximum fidelity?
Ideally it would be something that stores the animation as meta data
and not as raw escape codes for the terminal on which the animation
was authored.
I'm thinking "The Draw", which was for DOS and "Duh Draw", which
was a
reimplimentation for Unix.
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9:28 a.m.
At 11:04 PM 5/26/2011, Richard wrote:
Ideally it would be something that stores the animation
as meta data
and not as raw escape codes for the terminal on which the animation
was authored.
Interesting idea. If the The Draw program only aims to send to a
PC-like destination, then certainly you could write a converter
to a metadata format, and translators for different terminals.
An odd twist on termcap. Maybe that's the route. Maybe someone
did that already.
- John
10:38 a.m.
On Thu, 2011-05-26 22:04:17 -0600, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
Is anyone aware of an open source program for
authoring ASCII
animations and playing them back on different terminals at different
baud rates with maximum fidelity?
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
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12:57 p.m.
In article <20110527143847.GI23309 at lug-owl.de>,
Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de> writes:
On Thu, 2011-05-26 22:04:17 -0600, Richard
<legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
Hand created. Not transcoding existing video files into an ASCII
representation like ascii quake.
Is anyone aware of an open source program for
authoring ASCII
animations and playing them back on different terminals at different
baud rates with maximum fidelity?
What kind of animation? There's "real ascii-art" authoring on
one
side (like what you get upon `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl'),
Yes, like that.
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
This looks like a good start, thanks. It looks like existing stuff
assumes that everything uses the standard ANSI codes and doesn't store
the meta-instructions, but the escape code rendering of those
instructions.
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7:25 p.m.
On Fri, 2011-05-27 10:57:06 -0600, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article <20110527143847.GI23309 at
lug-owl.de>,
Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de> writes:
I guess they're these are using a simple file with a fixed number of
lines per screen "image". The escape codes are then created by the
software (during display of the animation). In theory, that could
even mean to just scroll out the old stuff (if run on a `dumb'
terminal).
MfG, JBG
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the second :
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
This looks like a good start, thanks. It looks like existing stuff
assumes that everything uses the standard ANSI codes and doesn't store
the meta-instructions, but the escape code rendering of those
instructions.
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