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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Feb 1999.
Re: JAVA Animation (technic)

Re: JAVA Animation (technic)

 llizard <lli...@iNOdirect.ca> writes
>In article <7b1fr5$qt...@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>, "Meph"
><UZS...@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> 
>> I have talked with a friend (Hi Joe) about an effective way to create JAVA
>> ASCII  animations. He told me his idea of writing a script with a similar
>> system like the ANSI codes. The animation data  could be reduced if only the
>> changed characters are replaced and not the hole picture.
>> There are some samples attached which demonstrate what I mean by this:
>> 
>> Jgs0 : Normal code   = 59.1 KB
>> Jgs1 : Type I        = 33.3 KB
>> Jgs2 : Type II       =  8.8 KB
>> 
this is an astounding reduction!   (real cool anim too! ... fanx Joan:)

that'd be a real 'fuck-pig' to code by hand tho' ...
... how about a 'drop-in' web page ?


>> 
>> Thanks to Joe for the idea and thanks to Colin for the link.
>> The sample animations are (c) by (genial) Joan Stark.
>> 
>> Bye Marc



>I'm getting scripting errors with this. (and in order for the animation
>to work in MSIE as well as NEtscape, the endings for the lines have to
>be \r\n"+ instead of \n"+ ) 
>
>Does this only work on Netscape 4 and up? I have Netscape 3

yep ... the split() function used was introduced in Netscape 4


>
>Looks interesting though...
>
>
>
>NOTE: I do not pick up my mail from the idirect address that you
>see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e"
>to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
>--
>       ___                        cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca
>     _/   |    ,^%---                         llizard aka ejm
>    |_____|  __<_ \ Yikes! Do I have to upgrade??

[][ yes! ... please do!   (try and get the latest FREE version you can)

>      --- ==   >/
>    [_____]  __>,^          ASCII-ar+, ASCII & gif anima+ions
>  ejm|   |  //| |        www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/

[][ this post 'sposed to be in alt.ascii-art.animation tho' ?

nice work! Marc ...

[][ see yuz
[][ colin
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