X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,476e5f704410f63c X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,476e5f704410f63c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: alfie@innocent.com (Gerfried Fuchs) Subject: Re: ascii programs Date: 2000/02/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 586446552 References: <2hFp4.14$vg.1090@m2newsread.uni2.es> <38A91A06.7A76@TAKEOUTTHEGARBAGEyahoo.com> X-Complaints-To: news@siemens.at X-Trace: scesie13.sie.siemens.at 950692615 12319 195.1.135.123 (16 Feb 2000 09:16:55 GMT) Organization: Siemens AG Austria User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (Windows) NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Feb 2000 09:16:55 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation llizard wrote: > I'm not sure that I understand your question exactly but if you are > looking for a program that will make text animations (ascii movies), > Celia has one on her page > http://members.xoom.com/albertopsq/ > The program is called Analia Thanks for the hint - I'll look at that one sometime. I saw one of those ascii-movies once. It's just a HUGE text-file with ^L in between after each screen for redraw (or something similar code, without cleaning the screen...). You can then just cat (or type, if you are in an DOS-environment) the file. It was an ascii-movie of the famous 70ties? movie "Deep Throat" - and you could really see what was going on ;) Only the credits at the start were hardly to read. On the other hand, the package mentioned later in this mail includes aaflip, which is an ascii-art flic file player. It can handle files that usually have the extension .fli or .flc. > For the pictures-ascii, I never use this kind of thing but I believe > that Tony's ASCII Zine http://www.zinezone.com/users/TonyCucchiara > has a link in the tools section. It's called gifscii. I'm using asciiview - which uses the ascii-art library. And that is really TERRIFIC!! You should all give it a try. It has great options: gamma correction, brightness and contrast-control, zooming and more. Supports bold and dimed colors (that's not true ascii anymore, but it still looks great ;). I have an entry in my ~/.mailcap for image/*; asciiview %s; needsterminal Sadly I haven't found a non-interactive way yet; but I'm working on that ;) The ascii-art library is the greatest thing I've found - it really produces nice output, and you can interactively set the parameters for better results. You can found it at (according to the docs included), the homepage is at > There is also a thing called Pict2Ascii > http://www.l0pht.com/~spacerog/filelists/cool.html > > But you should be forewarned. These picture to ascii programs don't > really do a great job and require a lot of fixing afterwards. You haven't tried asciiview yet ;)) Only problem I've noticed at the moment that it doesn't seem to support jpg or xpm graphics. But you can convert them to any other graphic format (like gif?) with any tool you like - those tools are mainly lossless, IMHO. And - to get a great demonstration of what the ascii-art library is able to do, get bb - the aa-demo ;) Also from the above mentioned site. I'm quite puzzled that you all don't know that - on the other hand, it's developed under linux - but it also runs under DOS :-) Watch the demo and see it's abilities! Once again, it's - I just checked it. The URL might look strange but it's working (of cause without the < and > ;) And, to top it - the ascii-art library was developed by chech people on an os original developed by another european dude, just for JRO's info :-P Have fun! -- Gerfried Fuchs