X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,de6d7c10541f6a5c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fd588,de6d7c10541f6a5c X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-10 13:54:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.ct.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: d@homer.cghm Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation Subject: Re: movie making tips (particularly speed) References: From: Andrew Cady Organization: _ Message-ID: <87u251guig.fsf@homer.cghm> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 21:52:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.2.141.67 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.ct.home.com 984261178 24.2.141.67 (Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:52:58 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:52:58 PST Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4644 alt.ascii-art.animation:196 Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> writes: > I was trying to make an ascii art movie that can just be 'cat'ed on > a vt100-compatiible terminal today, but I ran into a problem. > > A movie which is supposed to take a good two minutes whizzes by in > just a second on my xterm. How can I slow things down? As an > experiment I added about 100k of nulls bewteen frames but that > didn't slow it down all that much. Perhaps you could repeat each frame several times.