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1 .SH linuxconsole
2 Animated ASCII art
3 .2C 10v
4 .
5 .PP
6 With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene,
7 it would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the two in animated ASCII art.
8 Courtesy of textfiles.com,
9 we can browse through a collection of 93 animated ASCII pieces of arts.
10 .
11 .FS
12 http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/
13 http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html
14 .FE
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16 .PP
17 They are also mirrored at the bitreich gopher site
18 .FS
19 gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/
20 .FE
21 .
22 .PP
23 The animation speed will likely be too high for a terminal,
24 and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised
25 by linuxconsole.net, or with pv(1) as below:
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27 .1C
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29 .DS
30 curl -s gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/twilight.vt | pv -qL3000
31 .DE
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33 .2C 10
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35 .PP
36 You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again
37 after watching.
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39 .PP
40 Some are just a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement,
41 while other might be closer to a short animated movie.
42 Talking of which, long movies were also done:
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44 .DS
45 https://www.asciimation.co.nz/
46 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
47 .DE
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49 .PP
50 These characters transmitted through one protocol or another,
51 whispers to us, through our terminal screen, tales from the imagination of plain text artists.