asciimatrix

November 13, 2003 11:14 PM

Matrix in ASCII. Nice.
posted by oissubke (16 comments total)

Matrix in EBCDIC.
posted by quonsar at 11:18 PM on November 13, 2003

Very nice.
posted by eddydamascene at 11:30 PM on November 13, 2003

Very, very nice!
posted by Quartermass at 11:33 PM on November 13, 2003

trippy...
posted by asterisk at 11:40 PM on November 13, 2003

Matrix in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Utah.
posted by homunculus at 11:49 PM on November 13, 2003

*shakes fist in the general direction of lansing*
posted by quonsar at 11:54 PM on November 13, 2003

*loving this post*
posted by dabitch at 5:32 AM on November 14, 2003

How in the html do they make motion ascii graphics???
posted by Goofyy at 6:21 AM on November 14, 2003

Goofyy- each "frame" is loaded as a separate HTML layer. Some simple Javascript just loops through each frame and toggles its visibility. I'm guessing that the actual content is the output of one of many movie-to-ascii converters floating around (Apple, for example, includes one as a demo for QT movies in its dev tools). Primitive, but effective.
posted by mkultra at 6:33 AM on November 14, 2003

Goofyy: aalib. It's supported by the Gimp, MPlayer, and you can even play Quake in it.
posted by Eamon at 6:35 AM on November 14, 2003

wow.... fantastic!
posted by taz at 6:58 AM on November 14, 2003

Wow indeed.
posted by Busithoth at 7:01 AM on November 14, 2003

Quonsar, your link gave me a headache.
posted by daHIFI at 8:05 AM on November 14, 2003

[keanu] Whoa! [/keanu]
posted by dejah420 at 12:50 PM on November 14, 2003

What MKUltra said:

Apple's original

The Ted Turner colorized version

The experimental remake by a loose consortium of auteurs

Sorry, this is a MacOSXFilter response.
posted by britain at 6:50 PM on November 14, 2003

Neo: Oh God.
Trinity: What?
posted by ZachsMind at 9:56 PM on November 14, 2003