Animation viewing utils
From C. Groom <C.G...@newcastle.ac.uk>
· alt.ascii-art
· 29 May 1994 21:18 · View full thread
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Hello all,
The ASCII animation fans out there will no doubt know that some
animations go far too quickly on their machines.
There are two solutions though...
1. View them on a 286PC... this will slow them down *B^)
2. Use a software program.
Anyway, since there have been some posts recently concerning
road-runner(beeb-beep) animations I'll post some programs that I have
written to slooooooooowwwwww down these animations.
The programs will be:
1. vtcat - an alternative to type(msdos) cat(UNIX). this prog
will display your animations at the speed you like.
2. delayvt - this inserts delays into an animation file so that
the animation itself becomes slooooower
3. revdelay - this UNDO's the delays added by "delayvt" so that
you get the original animation as written by the
author.
The posts will be uuencoded and contain the C-source code.
However, if you can ftp and you have a PC then you can get the
executables(in addition to the source code) from my ftp site:
ftp site: tuda.newcastle.ac.uk
address : 128.240.2.1
path : /pub/local/n1ka0/animation/progs/utils
programs: vtcat.exe, delayvt.exe, and revdelay.exe
The programs were originally written for my own use.... actually
I had forgotten how to do file handling in C so these programs
jogged my memory.. Anyway there ARE better algorithms/code to do the
same thing... but only the C experts among us will whinge about that!
At some point I will tidy everything up into one menu driven
program with a sweet witty interface and nice meaningful functions.
That's ya lot,
Chris Groom.
| EMAIL: C.G...@newcastle.ac.uk PHONE: +44 91 222 7856 |
| Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU. |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8e9d70b8827d2e78,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-30 01:59:18 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!pipex!uknet!newcastle.ac.uk!newton!n1ka0 From: C.G...@newcastle.ac.uk (C. Groom) Subject: Animation viewing utils Nntp-Posting-Host: newton Message-ID: <CqL...@newcastle.ac.uk> Summary: Utils for viewing vt animations Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU Keywords: Animation Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 21:18:01 GMT Lines: 55
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