X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,b4ca663923921844 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: llizard Subject: Re: ANIM based on cellular automation Date: 1999/12/17 Message-ID: <385A4598.7272@TAKEOUTTHEGARBAGEyahoo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 561949344 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <83dccd$li3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@idirect.com X-Trace: quark.idirect.com 945440153 216.154.7.75 (Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:15:53 EST) Organization: posted via idirect.com Canada; zone 6A (or is it 5b?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:15:53 EST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation In article <83dccd$li3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Valery Silivanov wrote: > > http://www.angelfire.com/ab/ascii/lifegalax.html#top > > That's an animation based on the Conway's Game of Life. Generally anims > which may be created with the script may consist of the infinite number > of frames (despite of its size of 2 kb). It depends on an initial > picture only. This particular animation is a pattern with a period 9 > (Kok's galaxy). I've tried to create a less abstract ascii pic > generating an interesting sequence of generations, but I haven't found > it so far. Cool. Is there a way that you could use one of your portraits? This one is probably too simple and would just look like nothingness most of the time in the animation. (it's a wonderful portrait on its own though) ______ .==<_\),__) ,o(_/) /| ///// /___/ | //// ___/ // \ / /-' / , / ( | | \ \ | ) | | / / \ / ( / | / \/ (/ S-v Also, is there a way that you can speed up the animation? It seems a little static. I stared briefly at the source code but can't hold my concentration long enough to figure it out. NOTE: I never pick up my mail from the yahoo address. If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca _/ | ,^%--- llizard aka ejm |_____| __<_ \ That's what happens when one has only --- == >/ half a brain to begin with. [_____] __>,^ ASCII-ar+ and ASCII-anima+ions ejm| | //| | http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/