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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 13 Oct 1999.
ASCII drawing program?

ASCII drawing program?

Are there any drawing programs out there that let you draw animated movies in ASCII, and support standard movie features?

* select & move a block of text - this would select either with a photoshop
  type marquee tool or let you outline an area of the screen (for irregular 
  shapes) and select that
* auto drawing of lines/shapes
* support for differnt line widths
* repeat frame feature (don't have to redraw a non-changing frame, just 
  say show this frame x times in a row)
* variable frames/second
* preview movie or frame x to frame x
* auto-strip trailing whitespace
* inclues a couple of different players (javascript, windows, etc)
* saves to format for use with these players
  (can also save to ansi, inserts esc-(home) between frames)

etc. 

I wonder if anyone will ever get bored or interested in asciimation enough to
build this... 

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From: app...@cybercomm.net (Apple-O)
Subject: ASCII drawing program?
Date: 1999/10/13
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