Tag Archives: animation

Terminal Rain, a textmode game with a custom font, developed by Jackson Lango. (Twitter)

Hatsune Miku in 1000 layers of ASCII characters, by James Lyle. Full video here.

Tim Koch’s custom charset animations.

Improved wand effects in Stone Story RPG by Martian Rex.


The website of the design agency ertdfgcvb.

From ASCII-demo by Paranoids. MS-demo, 1995.

Marilyn Monroe flip book made with barcodes from DVDs of her movies, by Scott Blake 2012. Video here, GIF here.

ASCII-cake animated in Powerpoint by YoshieMaster, 2010.

The Ohio state flag and a pirate flag (by Joan Stark) with a coded wave effect by Sam Carrettie.

Voltra, an audiovisual treat in 1 kilobyte (!) of Javascript code, without any library or dependencies. Made by p01. Run the demo here. Full source code:

c.style.width=c.style.height=`100%`,c.style.position=`fixed`,document.body.style.background=`radial-gradient(#023,#000)`,document.body.style.font=`0 a`;for(x=0;x{for(u=o.outputBuffer.getChannelData(0),d=Math.sin(m/32),e=Math.cos(4*Math.cos(4*d)),f=Math.sin(4*Math.cos(4*d)),c.width=12*64,c.style.transform=`perspective(64vh)rotate3d(0,1,${f},${m/8}deg)scale(${1+(m/96)**64})`;a/64+64>(4*b[i-1]+b[i]*2+b[i++])^1.01*Math.random())i=a++%2048;for(i=y=0;y