Tim Rodenbroeker, 2022-2023. Coder and ASCII-educator.
Tag Archives: animation
BAMBI versus GODZILLA, by Dave Brett for the VT100 terminal. A comment on the video mentions seeing it in 1980, so this post is dated to 1979.
It’s based on an animation from 1969 by Marv Newland. This and other VT100-animations are available at textfiles.com.
Julian Hespenheide, 2021. link
grid=75×75 / tiles= 8px
String charSet = ” !#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~”;
font=Courier New
Julian Hespenheide, 2023
Resolution : 1080×1080
Grid size : 60×60
Radius : *1.2
Char sets : ▒░░▒▒ ░░░▒▒▓▔▕▖▗▘▙▚▛▜▝▞▟▒▒▒░░ ░ ░ ▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓
2023
Grid size= 48×48
Char sets= ↑↗→↘↓˙◤◤◢..◤◤◢◢⋰⋱/:_◜◞
2023
Resolution : 1080×1080
Grid size : 64×64
Radius : *2.0
Char sets : ░▒▓▔▕▖▗▘▙▚▛▜▝▞▟
2023
Resolution : 1080×1080
Grid size : 128×128
Radius : *1.2
Char sets : $@B%8&WM#*oahkbdpqwmZO0QLCJUYXzcvunxrjft/\|()1{}[]?-_+~<>i!lI;:,\”^`’.
2023
Resolution= 1080×1080
Grid size= 64×64
Char sets= ↑↗→↘↓˙╷┬┐┌─╴╶╵┴┘└│┤├
2022
Resolution= 600×600 [0]
Grid size= 100×100
Char sets= ░▒▓▔▕▖▗▘▙▚▛▜▝▞▟
Font= C64Pro-6
We’ve got some catching up to do with Julian Hespenheide, who’s been productive with code, charsets and fonts while this blog was in hiatus mode. This is a circular selection, but more stuff is coming.
Lena Weber makes incredible variable typefaces that are very graphical, like Gradial used here. It doesn’t look like it, but all this is made of (variable) text characters. Like these:
Dromeda (aka Andromeda) by Bob Carr, 1980. PETSCII-animation running on the PET computer.