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git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes (git://bitreich.org) |
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tarticle-tgtimes-animated-text-art.mw (1154B) |
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1 .SH linuxconsole |
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2 Animated ASCII art |
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3 .2C 40v |
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4 . |
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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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15 . |
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16 .PP |
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17 The animation speed will likely be too high for a terminal, |
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18 and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised |
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19 by linuxconsole.net, or with the script below: |
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20 . |
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21 .DS |
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22 curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt | |
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23 while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done |
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24 .DE |
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25 . |
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26 .PP |
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27 You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again |
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28 after watching. |
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29 . |
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30 .PP |
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31 Some are a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement, |
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32 while other might be closer to a short animated movie. |
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33 Talking of which, long movies were also done: |
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35 .DS |
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36 https://www.asciimation.co.nz/ |
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37 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl |
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38 .DE |
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39 . |
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40 .PP |
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41 These characters transmitted through one protocol or another, |
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42 whispers to us, through our terminal screen, fruit of the imagination of plain text artists. |
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