Desk: Ascii Art Ensemble resources (Version 1)

First of all, the java-player. the original version, the asciimator was made by luka frelih. this player is public domain, so use it at your own risk. other players have been made by Thomax Kaulman and Andreas Schiffler, who wrote more beautiful sourcecodes. Note that this is really free software which means that it is still licensed (GNU) but you are free to use it.

ASCIImator. the original java-player.

Written by Luka Frelih and originally bundled with deep.ASCII - meme of the week last week. Here is the ASCIImator.java source.

StreamintoASCII player and ASCIITV.

This is another java player which handles .gz text-files. Thomax Kaulmann is still considering to offer ASCII mode at OVA.

Libbgrab

The original deep.ascii was recorded using TTYvideo for sgi. Libbgrab was developed by andreas schiffler for the ascii art ensemble as free linux library, with which you could do even more. libbgrab-2.0

This archive contains a lot for handling your video input (Linux / c++). There are more things at the ascii video page of the esc to begin website, there is a ASCII video+talk reflector, an Asteroid-remake to hit textobjects.

asciiMovie b1.0.9.app, a Macintosh QuickTime to ASCII converter, by Guillaume Stagnaro.

Drag and drop your videoclip and save it to text; get the latest version. Next step is to use the embedded application to convert streams, a QuickTime plugin? Who will write it ? (Macintosh / RealBasic).

Older things

Pict2AsciiFAT 1.03 is an .pict image file to ascii converter for macintosh ppc. Although it is stand-alone, it is scriptable and uses an engine, with which you can scriptwrite .gif files, like spreadsheets into diagramms. Somehow i have the idea that there is more to find.

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