{"id":219,"date":"2007-04-16T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/2007\/04\/ascii-plus-animation-is-asciimation\/"},"modified":"2014-03-25T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T21:20:46","slug":"ascii-plus-animation-is-asciimation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/ascii-plus-animation-is-asciimation\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCII plus Animation is ASCIImation"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A fellow ASCII artist<\/a> with the pseudonym “Skylined” over at deviantART sent me something cool and unique and makes me rethink about “the death” of text art in the internet age. It’s pretty much kicking butt for something that was announced dead by Microsoft over a decade ago.<\/p>\n

He does not have a real website (the URL I got works sometimes and sometimes it does not) and what he did can not be displayed at deviantART, so I asked him for permission to put it on my website and he was okay with it.<\/p>\n

What he did is a combination of Text art and cool JavaScript coding to get the desired effects.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The first one is a horizontal scrolling “Star Field Effect” emulation, which used to be very popular during the end of the eighties and nineties with demosceners and crack intro coders alike. <\/p>\n

It also “fades in” and out an ASCII logo, which can be easily replaced by different logos, because it is pulled dynamically from an external text file on the fly. No coding necessary.<\/p>\n

You can see the real-time “Star Field” animation here<\/a> or click on the image.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The second piece is even cooler in my opinion, but the graphic is not as easy to replace. It is possible though, but you need to know a bit about JavaScript that you done screw it up.<\/p>\n

The Animation contains two main parts. The first one is a “Morph” effect between four different ASCII logos, which are also cool and done by Skylined himself. <\/p>\n

I like the “Shark-like” logo the best, because it looks even more 3D with the morph effect than it did already without it. <\/p>\n

<\/a>But his ASCII called “Julia at Awakenings”, which was a contribution to the Non-Existent ASCII contest<\/a> at deviantART in November\/December last year is also pretty cool. <\/p>\n

He did not win unfortunately, although he was my personal favorite and got my #1 vote (I was one of the judges of the contest).<\/p>\n

<\/a>The second part is actually more impressive and something for the coders at heart, what I am unfortunately not. It shows a real-time Mandelbrot fractal look-alike zoom and rotation and was programmed entirely (no ASCII logo).<\/p>\n

Check the Morph and Mandelbrot Animation here or click on one of the images.<\/p>\n

Cheers!
Carsten aka Roy\/SAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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