Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age • Hacker News Board

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by burgerbrain » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 8:28 AM UTC

thirsteh wrote: post #10

burgerbrain wrote: post #8

I am having a hard time understanding the purpose of the video on that page...

Did you notice the contents of the text box change while the video is playing?

I did not, my browser window was not large enough to view both at once. Even so, this strikes me as a very strange use of a flash video.

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by wingerlang » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 8:29 AM UTC

It is not very often you hear that song out in the wild. Nice.

For anyone interested it is called "fetts vette"

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by starwed » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 8:31 AM UTC

thirsteh wrote: post #10

burgerbrain wrote: post #8

I am having a hard time understanding the purpose of the video on that page...

Did you notice the contents of the text box change while the video is playing?

Nope. I suspect the site is fundamentally broken in my browser[1], given that I see two video elements, and the textbox is overlaid on top of several other elements, and there are some control elements floating seemingly randomly on the page.

Here's a screenshot of what I see: http://imgur.com/cET4F. Might be the nightly build's fault, of course!

1. FF nightly build, 11.0a1 (2011-11-28)

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by jalada » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 8:39 AM UTC

burgerbrain wrote: post #11

thirsteh wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you notice the contents of the text box change while the video is playing?

I did not, my browser window was not large enough to view both at once. Even so, this strikes me as a very strange use of a flash video.

It automatically scrolls down once you start playing the video.

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by exDM69 » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 8:58 AM UTC

I don't consider auto generated ASCII figures (from aalib or libcaca or similar) to be art. To me, art implies there is an artist behind the work of art or the technique used to generate it.

Real artists do their ASCII art 7 bits at a time.

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by stephth » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 9:01 AM UTC

zachwill wrote: post #2

Haha, nice — I'm the developer if anyone has any questions (it's using a canvas element to convert images/data URIs to ASCII art). Also, here's a link to the Github repo: https://github.com/zachwill/asciifi

Fun site. But why haven't you written credits to the music?

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by brianxq3 » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 9:32 AM UTC

props on the mc chris!

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by atomicdog » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 10:07 AM UTC

Hmm, it would be interesting to try to use this to generate ascii heightmaps for games out of images.

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by bane » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 11:04 AM UTC

Real artists work in ANSI

http://sixteencolors.net/

http://artscene.textfiles.com/acid/

http://artscene.textfiles.com/ice/

Re: Asciifi - an ASCII art converter for a more civilized age

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Post by afc » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 11:17 AM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #12

It is not very often you hear that song out in the wild. Nice. For anyone interested it is called "fetts vette"

I thought the opposite: ugh, it has some shitty (for my taste) music, lets just close it. :-/