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	1 .SH linuxconsole
	2 Animated ASCII art
	3 .2C 40v
	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 The animation speed will likely be too high for a terminal,
	18 and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised
	19 by linuxconsole.net, or with the script below:
	20 .
	21 .DS
	22 curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt \|
	23 while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done
	24 .DE
	25 .
	26 .PP
	27 You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again
	28 after watching.
	29 .
	30 .PP
	31 Some are a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement,
	32 while other might be closer to a short animated movie.
	33 Talking of which, long movies were also done:
	34 .
	35 .DS
	36 https://www.asciimation.co.nz/
	37 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
	38 .DE
	39 .
	40 .PP
	41 These characters transmitted through one protocol or another,
	42 whispers to us, through our terminal screen, fruit of the imagination of…
	43