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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:
	26 .
	27 .1C
	28 .
	29 .DS
	30 curl -s gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/twilight.vt \| pv -qL3000
	31 .DE
	32 .
	33 .2C 10
	34 .
	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:
	43 .
	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 …