Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968

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Posted by timothy on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:18PM 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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In other news... (Score:5, Funny)

by fph il quozientatore ( 971015 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:21PM (#31558844)

...lolcats turn 42.

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Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)

by Kell Bengal ( 711123 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:24PM (#31558876)

I'm in ur commune, stealin ur moviez!

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Re:ASCII? (Score:5, Funny)

by riker1384 ( 735780 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:28PM (#31558908)

This animation was with with the Russian version, called ASCIISKI.

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Re:ASCII? (Score:5, Funny)

by Xiph ( 723935 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:29PM (#31558912)

however, in ascii-art ASCII is an abbriviation of "Abnormal String of Characters Is the Image"

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Re:ASCII? (Score:3, Funny)

by Slack0ff ( 590042 ) writes: <matbrady AT bored DOT com> on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:35PM (#31558958)

Is that what lil' john is singing about?

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That's nothing! (Score:5, Funny)

by d1r3lnd ( 1743112 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:40PM (#31558994)

A year later, American scientists created an impressive sequence of a man walking about the lunar surface...

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Rotoscoped. (Score:3, Funny)

by 6350' ( 936630 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:43PM (#31559012)

This is of course neat to see, but I think it's clearly a rotoscoped sequence transferred to a printout (which is pretty cool too). Not to quibble, but this might be a better example of full-on ASCII animation:
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ [asciimation.co.nz] - The classic ASCII anim of Episode IV.

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Printer (Score:5, Funny)

by FrankDrebin ( 238464 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:54PM (#31559074) Homepage

One assumes this was printed on the Model-KI teletype, aka the KITTY.

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Did anyone else think of... (Score:5, Funny)

by Dogtanian ( 588974 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:57PM (#31559104) Homepage

..."Worker and Parasite"?

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Agreed. (Score:3, Funny)

by MRe_nl ( 306212 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @03:33PM (#31559336)

Impressive would have been two consecutive hits on the cat with a railgun...

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42 years ago... (Score:4, Funny)

by Sponge Bath ( 413667 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @03:52PM (#31559508)

...Russian scientists with access to a computer smoked some pot.

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Re:That's nothing! (Score:4, Funny)

by tecnico.hitos ( 1490201 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @04:30PM (#31559828)

Who cares about the moon when we can has kittehs.

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Re:ASCII? (Score:3, Funny)

by dangitman ( 862676 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @06:40PM (#31561024)

Since ASCII stands for "American" Standard Code for Information Interchange

You've got it all wrong. It stands for "American Society of Cat Illustration Innovation," informally known as the LOL Society.

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Re:In other news... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @07:15PM (#31561290)

HAHAHA 4chan jokes! Oh my god they're so original! Please bring us so much more of your witty fresh and mature humour!

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Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)

by Hoi Polloi ( 522990 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @07:39PM (#31561424) Journal

The problem with ascii animation is that typing that fast kills your wrists.

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That's nothing! (Score:5, Funny)

Rotoscoped. (Score:3, Funny)

Printer (Score:5, Funny)

Did anyone else think of... (Score:5, Funny)

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42 years ago... (Score:4, Funny)

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