Re: Arnie Movie
From Dan Egnor <egn...@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu>
· alt.ascii-art.animation
· 7 Jun 1994 23:11 · View full thread
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In article <199...@aber.ac.uk>, Simon Bradley
<syb...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
> Under 100 M? The whole movie? Are you *sure*? Wow! :)
Order of magnitude, depending on the "quality" (picture size) and of
course the length of the movie. Let's revise the estimate:
Each frame is ~ 2K in size. At 20fps, that's 2*20*3600*2 = 288000K, or
~ 300 megabytes for a 2-hour movie. So I exaggerated a bit.
Perhaps video-on-demand through the Internet could be implemented this way.
There could be a telnet server with a cheesy little text interface; you
select your movie and it blasts you with ASCII. As per my estimates it
would only require 40K/sec bandwidth; I get that with FTP all the time.
Again, sound is a problem, unless you want a beep every time someone talks.
I'm trying to do a Star Trek clip, but having some problems with gifscii --
on certain frames it outputs a full page of "~"s, causing a highly
irritating flicker in the resulting animation. Any idea what greyscale
picture-to-ASCII converter would work best for this sort of thing?
Dan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,cefe6b8bf63ab7a2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-06-08 02:42:08 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!psinntp!scisun!ees1a0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!egnor From: egn...@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu (Dan Egnor) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Subject: Re: Arnie Movie Date: 7 Jun 1994 23:11:55 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2t2urr$12...@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: <2susrj$dn...@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <199...@emba.uvm.edu> <2t0ipo$g4...@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <199...@aber.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mince.ugcs.caltech.edu
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