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From: llizard <cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: How to make Javascript ascii animations (WAS:Re: Yep..this is
 actually some ascii art not sex junk..)
Date: 1997/07/22
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Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation


In article <5qv9eq$71u$2@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, cfbd@southern.co.nz
(Colin Douthwaite) wrote:
> 
> Veronica Karlsson (e93-vkn@nospam.sm.luth.se) wrote:
> >Andreas Freise wrote:
> >>
> >> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> >> > Hmmm... maybe I should add something I wrote yesterday to somebody in
> >> > response to a question:
> >> [snip]
> >> > (I hope this explanation made sense)
> >>
> >> This sounds like it is very complicated, even for a
> >> programmer like me. :)
> >
> >I agree, but can you make it simpler and still get all the details?
> >(please do)  :)
[snip]
> >Ok, here's a simpler (but incomplete) one: Copy an animation from
> >somewhere, analyze it and make a new one in the same way... :)
> 
> That in fact seems to be the best way to learn to do ascii animations.
> 
> Here is GOLF.VT (zipped and uuencoded) which is a very simple
> animation which can be analysed and studied to see how and why it
> works.
> 
> Save the following to a file GOLF.UUE and then use a UUdecode
> program to produce the zipped animation file GOLF.ZIP:
> 
>   C> uudecode GOLF.UUE  ( which produces file GOLF.ZIP )
> 
[snip]
> To study and analyse the animation: load it into a wordprocessor
> or text file editor and study how it works in detail.

Talk about complicated!

It's easier to go to a URL that has the animation,

http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/llpages/anim/macarena.html

has a nice short one to look at.

Go to "file" and "save as" macarena.htm  Then view the macarena.htm as
macarena.txt and examine away.

> BTW are animations worth all the effort needed to make them ?  *8-)


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Not worth the effort? You mean I've been wasting my time on something
useless?


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