tarticle-tgtimes-animated-text-art.mw - tgtimes - The Gopher Times (HTM) git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes (DIR) Log (DIR) Files (DIR) Refs (DIR) Tags --- tarticle-tgtimes-animated-text-art.mw (1154B) --- 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 ASCII art. 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 plain text artists. 43