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..."
Damn... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Damn... (Score:2)
Rus
Re:Damn... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Damn... (Score:2, Funny)
Friend: Oh cool send it over.
Me: O
Friend: OMFG YOU NASTY SON OF A BITCH IM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!111
Me: Hahahahahahaha
*Had to repost, fixed formatting. From now on I vow to preview frist.
Re:Damn... (Score:1)
Well as long as it's from now one...
Re:Damn... (Score:1)
Re:Damn... (Score:2)
Re:Damn... (Score:1)
just add the BLINK tags
Re:omg (Score:1)
-calyxa
Re:omg (Score:1)
Re:omg (Score:1)
Nice stunt (warning: goatse.cx) (Score:2)
1) Get what looks like a magic-eye image
2) tell people to stare at it
3) after about 30 secs switch it to the goatse.cx guy
So ya, don't click the above link. And mods - get to work...
Re:Nice stunt (warning: goatse.cx) (Score:2, Funny)
2. They have mental trauma
3. Have expensive therapist standing by
4. Profit!
Re:omg (Score:1)
-uso.
Comment removed (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Oops (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oops (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Oops (Score:1)
Re:Oops (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Oops (Score:1)
Re:Oops (Score:5, Interesting)
Is it "wide open" as "I did not rob this shop, the door was wide open, so it's not theft"?
Did the guy agree that you take this file and use it?
Just a question...
Again with the "download = theft" argument... (Score:3, Insightful)
If you put something on a web server, and somebody makes a "request" to download that file, it's yours for the taking.
You can always take the file out your server, or instruct the server not to give it.
Re:Oops (Score:3, Interesting)
Sorry, we only like free software around here. Though your price is quite reasonable for the service you provide, we do not feel anybody should ever actually be compensated for their time. When you give it to us for free, we also want the source code too. Of course none of us will actually do anything to improve the software, we just want to make the point that we could fix it if we actually wa
Re:Oops (Score:2)
No way... (Score:1, Insightful)
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:No way... (Score:2)
Re:No way... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah... but after a couple of minutes, you don't even see the code any more; all you see is blonde, brunette, redhead...
Re:No way... (Score:2)
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
Re:No way... (Score:1)
Eye Damage? (Score:3, Funny)
Go calculate [webcalc.net] something
Quicktime terminal movie player (Score:1, Informative)
Princess in Ascii (Score:3, Funny)
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
Just in case of slashdotting ... (Score:5, Funny)
; ) Here's luke
-- Here's the light sabre
( o ) ( o ) Here's pricess leah
(: o Here's when luke realised
leah's his sister
-m
Re:Just in case of slashdotting ... (Score:1)
-uso.
Is It Just Me? (Score:5, Funny)
Why Did He Do It? (Score:4, Funny)
If you were drinking so much you need jet power to cool at a rate equal to your consumption, you're perception may be so reduced, as well.
PERL Asciimation (Score:5, Interesting)
http://okcomputer.antiflux.org/~grant/asciimation
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
Re:PERL Asciimation (Score:2, Informative)
Re:PERL Asciimation (Score:1)
-uso [mailto].
Minako: "Nice to meet you!" (perfect English)
Rei: "Hello!" (slight accent)
Ami: "I am gurad to see you!" (noticeable accent)
Makoto: "Thank you!" (as Japanese "sankyuu")
Rei: "Mako-chan, sore wa chotto chigauwa."
Makoto: "Uh, yappari."
ASCII Babes (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:ASCII Babes (Score:2, Informative)
Re:ASCII Babes (Score:4, Informative)
Hey they are back up! (Score:2)
Is it just me... (Score:1)
I need help.
This is why I read /. (Score:1)
Re:This is why I read /. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:This is why I read /. (Score:4, Funny)
Request denied (Score:5, Funny)
Rather a tall order, with Portman as she is...
Watch it via telnet (Score:5, Informative)
telnet blinkenlights.nl
Woohooo (Score:1)
Throwback? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Watch it via telnet (Score:2)
Re:Watch it via telnet (Score:2)
Telnet is insecure...it is trivial to sniff data going over the wire during a telnet session. It is also very easy for a man-in-the-middle attack to hijack the session.
Think about it - someone who hasn't paid could see how the movie ended, or a commercial could be forced right in the middle of the session.
Please, use ssh instead.
Please sit down Mr. Lucas... (Score:5, Funny)
--
Dude: Why did you just blow off Jenny?
Dude2: You Kidding! I'm waiting for Famke Jansen to call me back.
This is not cool (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:This is not cool (Score:1)
Re:This is not cool (Score:3, Insightful)
I agree... licences, anyone? Software isn't free by default...
Re:This is not cool (Score:2)
Its even more wrong for you to walk just behind me with a huge placard in bright orange with a huge arrow pointing at my pocket with the words "Look this guy's wallet is here, come grab his money"
And I wonder why I hardly read slashdot these days...
A Telnet Version (Score:1, Redundant)
Too Late... (Score:4, Funny)
The Ascii Art Ensemble [216.239.57.100]
"the Ascii Art Ensemble has taken the 1972 porn movie 'Deep Throat' and converted it into moving ascii"
Re:Too Late... (Score:2)
http://www1.zkm.de/%7Ewvdc/ascii/java/
ASCII (Score:5, Funny)
Jason
ProfQuotes [profquotes.com]
Re:ASCII (Score:2)
The last time I made a bitter beer face like that, my gf was talking about her period.
ascii porn (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups.html
http://www.subterrane.com/asciiporn.shtml
a lot of the time your staring at the screen and you say out loud, "oh thats an interesting character to use for the nipple"
maybe i shouldve posted anonymouslly
Re:ascii porn (Score:1)
http://www.subterrane.com/asciiporn.shtml [subterrane.com]
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?
ascii pr0n (Score:2, Redundant)
Why make them when the all-time classic has already been made in ASCII? Okay, stop salivating. Presenting... 3... 2... 1...
Deep Throat in ASCII [ljudmila.org]
Re:ascii pr0n (Score:2)
ascii pr0n (Score:1, Redundant)
But did he intentionally leave them wide open....? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:But did he intentionally leave them wide open.. (Score:1)
Re:But did he intentionally leave them wide open.. (Score:4, Informative)
- compiled Java classes,
- the uncompiled source (must have been put there deliberately), and
- a file "sw1.txt" containing all of the ASCII text used.
So it's easy enough to get at it all.Re:But did he intentionally leave them wide open.. (Score:1)
If I watched Star Wars as much as this guy did (Score:2)
'Yup, Luke whining "But I wanted to go into town and get the ASCII power converteeeerrrrrssss!!! *simper*" would be
30 '*'
23 '_'
12 #
34 '.'
19 '(' and ')'
7 'v'
4 ','
2 'oo'.
Tough one, that scene.'
On a more serious note, if you have the mind of a 14 year old, you'll most likely snicker when Luke tries out the lightsaber for the first time.
hehehe
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
Spoilers (Score:2, Funny)
Jeez - nothing but perverts here (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Jeez - nothing but perverts here (Score:1)
Re:Jeez - nothing but perverts here (Score:5, Funny)
AMD: No Grease For You!
Silicon Valley Has Learned to Love the Bust
Developers: Reading Lips In Software
Frankly, I'm shocked and dismayed. Won't someone think of the children?
YASWAM (Score:2, Informative)
for you macheads (Score:4, Interesting)
Here's a link to a little Apple prog that will play*any* QT movie in the Terminal (as ascii).
Very cool stuff.
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Co
Pron link for dirty men .... (Score:1, Offtopic)
It's not ASCII, but as Pron I find it brilliant.. Pron pron
For those without a browser (Score:4, Informative)
telnet blinkenlights.nl
I thought this wasn't really new, but hey
java/telnet is overkill for an ASCII player! (Score:1)
unzip -j swplay.jar data/sw1.txt
perl -pe 'if(/^(\d+)\s*$/){select undef,undef,undef,$1/15;$_="\e[H\e[J"}' sw1.txt
Tada, three lines and it plays, I bet that java applet uses more than that.
Does 4 years later consititute a dupe?
AALIB (Score:1)
I fired up my 1600x1200 console and watched about 20 mins of the matrix before my eyes started to bleed. Quite fun.
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/
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.
This IS wrong.... (Score:2)
shitty precedent gang!
to quote from news post 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
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.
Too late! (Score:1)
Too late! Behold the first frame of my new masterpiece:
(.)(.)
I call it "Tits From a Distance".
Source available != Free software (Score:2)
Glancing quickly through the links for the SW Ascimiation, I see no license for copying, modifying, or distributing code.
While independent derivations of similar projects would not be an infringement of copyright, taking and modifying this work without explicit permission, or license, by the author, is.
FSF Free Software and OSI Open Source are not labels applied to any code whose source happens to be available. They are terms which apply to specific works, for which specific reserved rights under copyr
mplayer -vo aa starwars.mpg (Score:2)
C3PO (Score:2)
Re:I Can't (Score:1)
Re:Other stuff on the website (Score:2, Informative)
Actually, it HAS been a slashdot story :)