The Matrix in ASCII
10 July 2003, 12:49 PM
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10 July 2003, 03:52 PM
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My friend has a program that converts MPEGs or whatever into ASCII - suspect it was this that did it - he has the Simpsons episodes in ASCII for playing on a terminal window in unix :-)
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http://www.asciimation.co.nz/index.html
This the Star Wars one?
If you read the Faq he has been creating it since 1997 and is only up to where Han Solo and Luke try to rescue Princess Leia from the Death star! Nutter!
This the Star Wars one?
If you read the Faq he has been creating it since 1997 and is only up to where Han Solo and Luke try to rescue Princess Leia from the Death star! Nutter!
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Neil: I wrote a program to do it once. Just sort the ASCII character set by number of pixels - so, the first character is a space, the second a full stop, then a comma, and finish with a # or some other 'dark' character. Each block in an MPEG stream can then be substituted with an ASCII character chosen by looking up one with the right brightness from the table. A more sophisticated algorithm could divide each character up and consider where the pixels are - so (for example) , and ' could be chosen appropriately.
10 July 2003, 05:51 PM
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Andy 
That's how I sussed it could work above. Fapping clever though
It's a classic 'hackish' thing to do, very cool, but utterly useless in the real world
[Edited by Neil Smalley - 10/07/2003 17:51:17]
That's how I sussed it could work above. Fapping clever though
It's a classic 'hackish' thing to do, very cool, but utterly useless in the real world
[Edited by Neil Smalley - 10/07/2003 17:51:17]
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