Re: Joan's Animated Pixie (Hold spacebar down)

Peter Mielke wrote:
> 
> dski  <dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw> wrote:
> 
> >Nice try, but not everybody's screen scrolls exactly 17
> >lines when they hit the space bar. I will post an old, old
> >picture of a spinning globe for screens that scroll 23 lines
> >at a time. Works great in Lynx. (Actually when it was first
> >posted it contained ANSI codes to clear the screen between
> >frames. I took those out, though I suspect they will still
> >work in most of the programs people use to read Usenet.)
> 
> All you have to do is size your screen accordingly. A little
> trial and error will do it. Use a text editor. Make a couple
> of marks indicating top and bottom when it's all set.
> 
> Actually, with the angels, it helps to be a little off, so that
> they don't remain in position but rise slowly as they flutter
> their wings. They stay at a level with 18 lines, and opening the
> window by just one more pixel lets them slowly rise. I copied a
> block of two angels and Pasted a few more hundred lines of them
> to the file, settled back and watched them glitter on their way
> up. Very nice!
> 
> Peter.
> 
> p.s. My intended post wouldn't Send. If this posting gets through,
> I'd like to just rave about Joan's cockatoo! Nothing like that comes
> out of automatic processes! I just sit here amazed so often at what
> the true ascii artist can accomplish! A thousand praises to you!

I have animated these in html here:

http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/globe_animation.html
http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/joans_animated_pixie.html

(I hope I got the pixie right)

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
( llizard's animation site:  http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )

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