Jed’s Other Poem by Stewart Smith, 2005. Music by Grandaddy. It’s a BASIC-program running on an Apple II+ (see). The source code was released online, and inspired other videos like this.
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From a Javascript animation by Skylined (via Laura Brown).
Kitty by N Konstantinov and others, 1968.
A group of russian physicists and mathematicians with N.Konstantinov in the head of it created mathematic model of the cat and its moving and realized this model in the program for the computer “BESM-4”. Computer printed hundreds of frames on the paper using alphabet symbols and then they were converted to the cinefilm.
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Post updated in 2024.
ASCII Rock by Yoshi Sodeoka, 2003. Classic rock videos by Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, ZZ Top, The Who, etc, converted to ASCII and accompanied by General MIDI renditions of the original songs. Hi-res videos available here.
Also see ASCII Art Ensemble.
Updated in 2024.