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article-linuxconsole-Animated-Text-Art.mw (1246B) |
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1 .SH linuxconsole |
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2 Animated ASCII art |
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3 .2C 10v |
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5 .PP |
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6 With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, |
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7 it would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the two in animated ASCII art. |
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8 Courtesy of textfiles.com, |
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9 we can browse through a collection of 93 animated ASCII pieces of arts. |
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11 .FS |
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12 http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/ |
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13 http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html |
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14 .FE |
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17 They are also mirrored at the bitreich gopher site |
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18 .FS |
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19 gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/ |
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20 .FE |
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23 The animation speed will likely be too high for a terminal, |
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24 and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised |
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25 by linuxconsole.net, or with pv(1) as below: |
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27 .1C |
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29 .DS |
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30 curl -s gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/twilight.vt | pv -qL3000 |
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31 .DE |
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33 .2C 10 |
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36 You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again |
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37 after watching. |
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40 Some are just a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement, |
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41 while other might be closer to a short animated movie. |
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42 Talking of which, long movies were also done: |
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44 .DS |
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45 https://www.asciimation.co.nz/ |
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46 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl |
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47 .DE |
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49 .PP |
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50 These characters transmitted through one protocol or another, |
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51 whispers to us, through our terminal screen, tales from the imagination of plain text artists. |
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