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1 .SH linuxconsole | |
2 Animated ASCII art | |
3 .2C 10v | |
4 . | |
5 .PP | |
6 With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, | |
7 it would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the two in animated A… | |
8 Courtesy of textfiles.com, | |
9 we can browse through a collection of 93 animated ASCII pieces of arts. | |
10 . | |
11 .FS | |
12 http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/ | |
13 http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html | |
14 .FE | |
15 . | |
16 .PP | |
17 They are also mirrored at the bitreich gopher site | |
18 .FS | |
19 gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/ | |
20 .FE | |
21 . | |
22 .PP | |
23 The animation speed will likely be too high for a terminal, | |
24 and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised | |
25 by linuxconsole.net, or with pv(1) as below: | |
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27 .1C | |
28 . | |
29 .DS | |
30 curl -s gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/twilight.vt | pv -qL3000 | |
31 .DE | |
32 . | |
33 .2C 10 | |
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35 .PP | |
36 You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again | |
37 after watching. | |
38 . | |
39 .PP | |
40 Some are just a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement, | |
41 while other might be closer to a short animated movie. | |
42 Talking of which, long movies were also done: | |
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44 .DS | |
45 https://www.asciimation.co.nz/ | |
46 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl | |
47 .DE | |
48 . | |
49 .PP | |
50 These characters transmitted through one protocol or another, | |
51 whispers to us, through our terminal screen, tales from the imagination … |