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Title: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: sam on March 21, 2010, 21:07

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Forty-two years ago, Russian scientists created an impressive sequence of a cat walking about — and it was all the more impressive given that the 'CGI' involved rendering hundreds of images of the cat as ASCII art, then printing out the sequence image by image and photographing it

http://technologizer.com/2010/03/21/1968-ascii-animation-from-russia/

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: Simon on March 21, 2010, 22:48

Weird!

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: sam on March 21, 2010, 22:52

yes, very strange.

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: Clive on March 21, 2010, 23:05

  :o  Very unusual.  I love it! 

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: sam on March 21, 2010, 23:06

you would! :p

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: Clive on March 21, 2010, 23:15

 :blush:

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: Rik on March 22, 2010, 11:06

The fun days of ASCII art. We should bring them back. :)

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: sam on March 22, 2010, 13:51

http://www.google.ca/search?q=ascii+art&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-GB:unofficial&client=firefox-a  - look at the google logo  :laugh:

http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: Rik on March 22, 2010, 15:47

There goes another printer ribbon. :)

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: Clive on March 22, 2010, 19:13

Are you still on dot matrix?  I'm supposed to be the Luddite on this forum!   >:(

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: sam on March 23, 2010, 00:06

this place is full of em.

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: Simon on March 23, 2010, 00:23

 :o:

Title: Re: Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968
Post by: Rik on March 23, 2010, 01:50

Quote from: Clive on March 22, 2010, 19:13

Are you still on dot matrix?  I'm supposed to be the Luddite on this forum!   >:(

No, but I was when I didn't ASCII art. Just laser, ink jets, dye sub and label printers now. :)