X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4412430252ee8546 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-12 17:20:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: New Jave Animation Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:20:15 GMT Organization: Some absurd concept Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <3B475A61.5EE5C845@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <36mkktsgcgr748uksia32j3epv6e583csl@4ax.com> <3B4AA705.18B12455@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <3b4ad523$0$1001$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 994983615 484 166.84.0.226 (13 Jul 2001 00:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:20:15 GMT X-Files: Used for sharpening claws and teeth on your hawk and hacksaw X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB X-Usenet-II: Because it is time for October. Encrypted: double rot-13 X-Newsreader: Sony Playstation 5.0MIPS Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6645 In alt.ascii-art, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote: > If you released the 3D renderer as opensource or with tools to create simple > maze like levels like the above pictures then I think the MUD users/creators > are going to be bursting with joy. For reasonably powerful terminals (able to display regular, bright, and dim text, for example) with high-speed connections (or running locally) aalib (google for it) tries to provide a standard graphics library with an ascii-art display device. Pretty fun stuff, but I've never tried programming with it. Elijah ------ aalib is definately X Windows and probably Linux centric