Star Wars Asciimation Revisited 173
Treebeard the Ent writes "A few years ago, Slashdot did a story about a guy Who was creating a full motion Ascii version of Star Wars in Asciimation. This is a link to the source of the now infamous Star Wars ASCIIMATION project that has been evolving since 97. This guy has stated that he prefers to finish this project on his own (but you are welcomed to do any of the other Star Wars movies). In his FAQ's he has stated that he doesn't have time to support his Java applet nor the text files, so he would not be making them available for anyone. Fortunatally enough for those of us who are interested, he has left them wide open in a standard zip file on his server. So download and have fun... Just please don't make any ASCII pr0n movies..."
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:3, Informative)
Watch it via telnet (Score:5, Informative)
telnet blinkenlights.nl
Re:No way... (Score:5, Informative)
Unlike the hand-drawn Star Wars one, it seems to have been made by some kind of automatic transformation of a ripped video stream.
Re:This is why I read /. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Oops (Score:4, Informative)
Re:PERL Asciimation (Score:5, Informative)
will render any video4linux source as ascii. had a ton of fun with this, and a projector earlier this semester playing 'matrix'.
Pat
If you like ASCII 'Art' (Score:5, Informative)
Ascii Art GFX Library [sourceforge.net]
Random dot Stereogram Generator [sourceforge.net]
SVGAlib wrapper for AA-lib [sourceforge.net]
Image Browser [sourceforge.net]
And a very nice demonstration [sourceforge.net]
For a list of cool ASCII-type programs that use AA-lib try their Homepage [sourceforge.net]. ASCII quake anybody?
Re:Other stuff on the website (Score:2, Informative)
Actually, it HAS been a slashdot story :)
Re:ASCII Babes (Score:2, Informative)
TTY Quake & UT (Score:3, Informative)
TTY UT [icculus.org]
and the TTY UT movies
Movies! [icculus.org]
Which work in Cygwin, very cool watch.
Plus the method used by TTY UT will work for ANY SDL-based Linux app, so matrix in ASCII
xterm -fn micro -geometry 240x150 -e aaxine -driver slang -width 240 \
-height 150 dvd://01.1 dvd://02.0 dvd://02.1 dvd://02.2 dvd://02.3 \
dvd://02.4 dvd://02.5 dvd://02.6 dvd://03.0 dvd://03.1 dvd://03.2
(so the pages says, never tried, must fix my linux install at some point
Quicktime terminal movie player (Score:1, Informative)
Re:ASCII Babes (Score:4, Informative)
YASWAM (Score:2, Informative)
For those without a browser (Score:4, Informative)
telnet blinkenlights.nl
I thought this wasn't really new, but hey
Other ASCII Art links... (Score:5, Informative)
Here are some additional ASCII art sites worth visiting, some of which host artwork dating back to the early 1970's...
The Textfiles.com Computer Art Collection [textfiles.com]
Features a wide range of computer-oriented text-based artwork beginning with teletype (RTTY) art which predates ASCII. An archive of archives.
http://artscene.textfiles.com/
The ACiD Artpacks Archive [acid.org]
Indexed and sorted by year. Hosts a collection of over 13 years of ASCII, ANSI, RIPscrip and other digital artwork.
ftp://artpacks.acid.org/pub/artpacks/
The Christ ASCII Archives [mimic.ca]
Indexed and sorted by artgroup. The authoritative archive of IBM-PC and Amiga ASCII art.
ftp://ftp.mimic.ca/pub/ascii/
Thuglife ASCII Art/News Portal [thuglife.org]
Acheron Scene Art/News Portal [acheron.org]http://www.thuglife.org
http://www.acheron.org
Joan Stark's ASCII gallery [geocities.com]
-rMore mainstream but rich in content regarding the different facets ASCII artscenes. Unfortunately this site is constantly plagued by Geocities bandwidth caps.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/
Re:PERL Asciimation (Score:2, Informative)
This sounds wrong (Score:5, Informative)
Is the source code for the player and the text file available?
I can't really make these available yet. I don't have as much time as I would like for support or questions on the applet or the text file. I do plan to make them available when they are complete.
The news post here even says that he doesn't want it to be available, but says that he has left the source 'wide-open'. Hmmm.
Re:But did he intentionally leave them wide open.. (Score:4, Informative)
perl player revisited (Score:3, Informative)
A couple years back, I created a player for these 'movies' in perl (which is in use on blinkenlights.nl [blinkenlights.nl]. It's a bit more than the one-liner, but it does play them smoothly (no flickering). It also supports Asciimation movies of other sizes (like Simon's Death of Jar Jar).
Player is available at http://mordor.rutgers.edu/~sauron/asciimation/asc
Try not to abuse this server too much, please.
Re:No way... (Score:1, Informative)
To play any movie that mplayer can handle in ASCII (assuming you have aalib and mplayer compiled with support for it)...
mplayer -vo aalib
To compile mplayer with aalib support on Gentoo...
emerge aalib && USE="aalib" emerge mplayer
enjoy