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From: CJRandall <colin@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: version 4 ascii-animations
Date: 2000/05/23
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llizard writes
>Aloha, ascii-animators. Are you sitting down?
>
>At long last we upgraded our Netscape from the antiquated 3.04. Naturally, the 
>first thing I did was head straight to Colin's page
>http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/art-glry.htm#ascii-anim
>to see the wonders I have been missing oh so long.
>
>obascii:
>
>                                 .''.
>       .''.             *''*    :_\/_:     . 
>      :_\/_:   .    .:.*_\/_*   : /\ :  .'.:.'.
>  .''.: /\ : _\(/_  ':'* /\ *  : '..'.  -=:o:=-
> :_\/_:'.:::. /)\*''*  .|.* '.\'/.'_\(/_'.':'.'
> : /\ : :::::  '*_\/_* | |  -= o =- /)\    '  *
>  '..'  ':::'   * /\ * |'|  .'/.\'.  '._____
>      *        __*..* |  |     :      |.   |' .---"|
>       _*   .-'   '-. |  |     .--'|  ||   | _|    |
>    .-'|  _.|  |    ||   '-__  |   |  |    ||      |
>    |' | |.    |    ||       | |   |  |    ||      |
> ___|  '-'     '    ""       '-'   '-.'    '`      |____
>jgs~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>     .___ 
>     |   )
>     |  (_)
>     |
>     | _      ha
>   .+. \,^^%--- ha
>   +.+ <    \ ha      (`()()|_ 
>   .+.<_/       
>   +.+))__/\         
>   .+.+.+.)_          F*I*R*E*W*O*R*K*S!
>   +.+.+.+|_\__ 
>   .+.+.+.|    |
>
>And of course, as I suspected, miK's dog is brilliant.
>
>
>As soon as the dust settles, I may neeeeeeeeeed to learn how to do this kind 
>of animation.
>
[][ hi ... cool

i'm just ashamed there aren't more of them on my page
there are others i've started but not finished
plus others not all using my coding ...
checkout miK's, meph's, valerie silvanov's and joris's pages

i have made some templates ... i'm not very good at documentation
but for some reason (i don't remember why) are not hooked into
my web page (i shall remedy that soon)

template techno-babble:
an object referencing version - method 5.31
an object inheritance version - method 5.32
both with and without an array interface

you may be more familiar with the array interface versions
since you already use that format for your own anims
all you have to do is to add <font color=#nnnn> tags

the anim code overhead is quite a large but
it can run multiple instances of the same object
or multiple objects using just the one driver
a bit like the 'one arm bandit' anims

here are the template URLs :-
http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/templates/template531single.htm
http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/templates/template531array.htm
http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/templates/template532single.htm
http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/templates/template532array.htm

for now all i can say is look at the source code and replace
the pictures with your own and replace the logo with your own etc.

i suggest starting with the template532array.htm version

i've tried to make these as auto-configuring as possible
but the layout format _must_ be adhered to for now

i wrote them around march this year and just looked at the versions
on my hard-drive and noticed that i can tidy them up quite a bit and
reduce the amount of code ... i'd almost forgotten about them ...
my mind is like a sieve :)

i've been putting together a code wrapping tool but i have a few
minor technical problems to resolve regarding cross-platform
incompatibilities ... but it is in hand ... if only i didn't have
to work all day long :)

if and/or when you have a go at using that code and get stuck or
find some odd behaviour drop me a line and i'll see if can help

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[][ see yuz
[][ colin
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