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Note: links are added more regularly to the
diary.
I'll then occasionally choose and categorise a selection of links to
transfer to this page.
Please
contact me
if you find any broken links, or you have suggestions of sites to link to.
Other asciimations
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Caribouteries
:
A French language website, but don't let that put you off. Using
whatever you learnt from school
("Le singe est dans l'arbre")
head straight towards Les MangaRibous which are the animated
ones.
I found the site layout a little confusing, but each ascii thumbnail has
2 links, the top one views the animation (Java applet), while the
bottom link allows you to download all of it as a text file. Some of
these are incredibly well done: the adventures of Supercaribou (also
in English) was cinematographic in its execution. Most impressive,
definitely deserves more linkage!
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Star Wars
:
The only asciimation that has so far gone mainstream. Linked to from
hundreds of pages usually with the description "Created by a Kiwi with
waaay too much time on his hands".
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Around midnight - Ascii theatre
:
Some fairly short, but rather nicely executed, gory little animations.
The whole site is very simple, consistent and well designed.
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b'ger's ascii art gallery
:
b'ger (Joris Bellenger) is an excellent ascii artist with his own,
highly distinctive, style, somewhere between fine-art and cartoon.
Only a few short animations, but I think they are exceptionally
beautiful.
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llizard's animations
:
Some excellent small-scale animations: my favourite is the basketball
one - the sprites are basic stick figures but their
movements are so accurate and evocative.
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textfiles.com
:
Lots of ascii art, and
vt100 animations.
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gnv: 'simple and not so simple animations'
:
Spanish language website. Very nicely done short animations. Also
like the original artwork ("Mi propio ascii art").
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mikechat's collection of JMOVs
:
I particularly like Road Trip (short, but the first "realistic"
perspective asciimation I've seen), and the fish animations.
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The JJS ASCII-Art Internment Camp
:
A few excellent animations: Snow Dancers, and some Lara Croft
ones.
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Dan Hunt's gargoyle
:
Possibly the first ascii animation I ever saw.
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mbp99's Asciimations
:
Nice, short, narrative animations.
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Clint's ascii animation gallery.
:
A slow, banner infested, Tripod site. But though the sub-pr0n
'perverted' animations are childish in the extreme, these are
'narrative', and there's a lot of humour and enthusiasm.
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JavE
:
The finest Ascii art editor known to man? Certainly if it wasn't
for the fantastic movie editor I don't think I'd even have begun to
start animating ascii.
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Perl
:
I use Perl to do ad hoc analyses of web-logs, run the rather
simplistic template based publishing system, and a variety of other
text-processing tasks.
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The Template Toolkit
:
A Perl module: one of the best templating modules around.
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Vim
:
Vi improved, by Bram Moolenar. An excellent text editor:
though the design and keyboard shortcuts are a little odd for someone
brought up the GUI way, it is very flexible and powerful.
I use this to write the html, perl scripts, and occasionally to do
some low level editing of the artwork, or even the
.jmov
movie files.
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HTML & XHTML - The Definitive Guide
:
by Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy. Published by O'Reilly press.
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perlmonk.com
:
The exceptionally generous jcwren has provided this webhosting
as a service for users of
www.perlmonks.com
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SSH
:
A Windows Secure Shell client: used for file transfer and terminal
access to the web host. Free for non-commercial use.
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Apache webserver
:
I don't run my own webserver, but Apache is very useful for testing
the configuration on my local machine before moving it to the
server. Apache is free, popular, well supported, and is reported to
be more stable and secure than many commercial webservers.
Other ascii art links and tutorials
Other Chickenmen
Miscellaneous
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perlmonks
:
Perlmonks. One of my favourite sites on the web.
/msg osfameron
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Vlaardingen
:
the home of fine herring.
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