Whoa.

[Sacrifice]

This is one of the coolest things ive ever seen. The people that made it must have had A LOT of time. http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/~renacer...-matrix.html.gz (http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/~renacer/ascii-matrix.html.gz)

[SoulReaver]

OMG neat :thumbs:

[Fred Bear]

what is it? all i can see is a bunch of letters and things moving around

[NightBreed]

:cool: Nice !!

Fred, put it on full-screen and back up about ten feet !! :thumbs:

[Fred Bear]

ummmmm, I still dont get it.

[JIMINATOR]

matrix ascii art. you may be using some type of browser that doesn't display it correctly.

[death maker]

thats cool.... but i have to keep on scrooling upppp then down then upppp then down but looks tight

[Fantum309]

That was pretty neat! I like it. :jammin:

[Death Engineer]

Nice. I bet they wrote a program to do that.

DE

[JIMINATOR]

lol, you so funny.

you could probably do the same.
essentially what you do is first give each ascii character (or a subset)
a greyscale weight, then convert the video to frames, compress
each frame to the size of your image (say 200 X 100 or something)
convert it to greyscale, and remap each pixel to the associated color
value in our ascii characterset.

easy.

(not a 5 minute job though... :unsure:)

they sell professional & shareware software that does this.

[Rivers]

Nice looking stuff. :jammin:

[Fantum309]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Nov 10 2003, 02:04 AM
lol, you so funny.

you could probably do the same.
essentially what you do is first give each ascii character (or a subset)
a greyscale weight, then convert the video to frames, compress
each frame to the size of your image (say 200 X 100 or something)
convert it to greyscale, and remap each pixel to the associated color
value in our ascii characterset.

easy.

(not a 5 minute job though... :unsure:)

they sell professional & shareware software that does this.
:blink: yeah, sounds easy! :bandhead:





freak! :P

[PimpDaddy]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Nov 10 2003, 02:04 AM
essentially what you do is first give each ascii character (or a subset)
a greyscale weight, then convert the video to frames, compress
each frame to the size of your image (say 200 X 100 or something)
convert it to greyscale, and remap each pixel to the associated color
value in our ascii characterset.
Of course :bandhead: that was right on the tip of my tongue :rofl:

[Sirc]

Sweet! Bring on the animated ASCII pron! :wootrock:

[Slice]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Nov 10 2003, 02:04 AM
lol, you so funny.

you could probably do the same.
essentially what you do is first give each ascii character (or a subset)
a greyscale weight, then convert the video to frames, compress
each frame to the size of your image (say 200 X 100 or something)
convert it to greyscale, and remap each pixel to the associated color
value in our ascii characterset.

easy.

(not a 5 minute job though... :unsure:)

they sell professional & shareware software that does this.
Actually I don't believe that is how it is done. If you look closely, all the ascii characters are black. They just used different characters for the areas which included more white background which makes that area appear to be grey. To prove my theory, close one eye and get about 4 inches away from your screen, all the letters are black. ;)

[Sirc]

Originally posted by Slice+Nov 10 2003, 11:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Slice @ Nov 10 2003, 11:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-JIMINATOR@Nov 10 2003, 02:04 AM
lol, you so funny.

you could probably do the same.
essentially what you do is first give each ascii character (or a subset)
a greyscale weight, then convert the video to frames, compress
each frame to the size of your image (say 200 X 100 or something)
convert it to greyscale, and remap each pixel to the associated color
value in our ascii characterset.

easy.

(not a 5 minute job though... :unsure:)

they sell professional & shareware software that does this.
Actually I don&#39;t believe that is how it is done. If you look closely, all the ascii characters are black. They just used different characters for the areas which included more white background which makes that area appear to be grey. To prove my theory, close one eye and get about 4 inches away from your screen, all the letters are black. ;) [/b][/quote]
I think that&#39;s what Jiminator meant. I think he was talking about simulating grayscale.

[Slice]

Originally posted by Sirc+Nov 10 2003, 11:09 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Sirc @ Nov 10 2003, 11:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by Slice@Nov 10 2003, 11:02 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-JIMINATOR@Nov 10 2003, 02:04 AM
lol, you so funny.

you could probably do the same.
essentially what you do is first give each ascii character (or a subset)
a greyscale weight, then convert the video to frames, compress
each frame to the size of your image (say 200 X 100 or something)
convert it to greyscale, and remap each pixel to the associated color
value in our ascii characterset.

easy.

(not a 5 minute job though... :unsure:)

they sell professional & shareware software that does this.
Actually I don&#39;t believe that is how it is done. If you look closely, all the ascii characters are black. They just used different characters for the areas which included more white background which makes that area appear to be grey. To prove my theory, close one eye and get about 4 inches away from your screen, all the letters are black. ;)
I think that&#39;s what Jiminator meant. I think he was talking about simulating grayscale. [/b][/quote]
Um I don&#39;t think so. You don&#39;t have to convert anything. All the characters are the same color. You just need to change the position of each character per frame to make this animation work, nothing else.

[ME BIGGD01]

Originally posted by Fantum309+Nov 10 2003, 06:44 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Fantum309 @ Nov 10 2003, 06:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-JIMINATOR@Nov 10 2003, 02:04 AM
lol, you so funny.

you could probably do the same.
essentially what you do is first give each ascii character (or a subset)
a greyscale weight, then convert the video to frames, compress
each frame to the size of your image (say 200 X 100 or something)
convert it to greyscale, and remap each pixel to the associated color
value in our ascii characterset.

easy.

(not a 5 minute job though... :unsure:)

they sell professional & shareware software that does this.
:blink: yeah, sounds easy&#33; :bandhead:





freak&#33; :P [/b][/quote]
:rofl:

[JIMINATOR]

Originally posted by Slice@Nov 10 2003, 11:16 PM
Um I don&#39;t think so. You don&#39;t have to convert anything. All the characters are the same color. You just need to change the position of each character per frame to make this animation work, nothing else.
ummm, i don&#39;t think you understood what I was saying. if you have a greyscale image, you can convert it to ascii. colors are irrelevant. For this sequence, it appears that they use &#39;R&#39; for black, space for white, period for lightest gray,
comma for next darker, etc. they take an average font, rasterize it, count the
number of black pixels in each character, and give the character that type of weighting. so when you have your greyscale image, the program will insert &#39;R&#39; for the black pixels, and so forth. do it for lots of frames and you have the illusion
of movement.

as for changing the position of each character per frame, that sounds like a manual
process, and that just would never happen.