Re: JAVA Animation (technic)

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
> 
> Jump1: Type  I       =  1.8 KB
> Jump2: Type II       =  2.2 KB
> 
> Type  I: All characters are replace which are different to the first frame.
> Type II: All characters are replaced which are different to the previous frame.
> 
> Normally the Type II creases smaller (and faster) files. Nevertheless sometimes
> Type I is better, if the animation has always a identical background
> (Jump-Sample). The files run with Navigator and IE 4.x and may be other.
> 
> The source code:
> <!--
> Name=
> "           .-------.                        \n"+         <<= The first frame
> "           |_______|____________            \n"+
> "          /====0=[]                         \n"+
> "       __/______/__\\____                    \n"+
> "       jgs              `\\~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^...
> Repla = "S,278,279,280,323,324,368,369,413,,192,193,...  <<= Replace positions
> Replb = "S~0_/_|||S~0|||S~0/|a|a|/S~0/|a/|/|S~0/|a|....  <<= Replace characters
> Posia = Repla.split(",");
> Posib = Replb.split("");
> var p=0;
> var delay=300;
> function ani() {
>  zeile = Name.split("");                              (*) <<= Reset first frame
>   while(Posib[p]!="S") {                                  <<= Replace charcters
>      if(Posib[p]=="a") {zeile[Posia[p]]="\\";}
>      else zeile[Posia[p]]=Posib[p];
>   p++; }
>   document.f.t.value=zeile.join("")                       <<= Show
>   p++;
>   if(Posib[p]=="S") {p=0; zeile = Name.split("");}        <<= Restart
>   setTimeout("ani()",delay);    }
> //-->
> 
> (*) only Type I (Type II: after the anim. Data)
> Control chararacters:
> - Ord(167) = Next frame (:=S)
> - Ord(167) = End (2x)
> - Ord(228) = '\' (:=a, must be replaced by '\\' because it's a JAVA tag)
> 
> Thanks to Joe for the idea and thanks to Colin for the link.
> The sample animations are (c) by (genial) Joan Stark.
> 
> Bye Marc
> 
>                O=============================================O
>   ,,,,,,,,     I  __  __   ___   ___   _  _           _,,,_  I
> .,,,  __  \_   I |M \/ M| |E__| |P_ \ | || | ASCII   / o o \ I
> (    ( o)   \_ I | |\/| | | _|  |  _/ | HH | & more  >  P  < I
> `\           o)I |_|  |_| |E__| |_P   |_||_| ~~~~~~  \_\_/_/ I
>   \     \____/ I                                             I
>    \   ____/   I  ASCII-, ANSI-, HTML-art, programs, ...     I
>     )  )       O=============================================O
> \__/    \  Index page:
>      \\_ ) http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/ascii.htm
> \___ __ /  English "fast-link" page:
>   _//  \\_ http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/eng/eng.htm
> 
>                   Name: jgs.zip
>    Part 1.2       Type: Zip Compressed Data
>                         (application/x-zip-compressed)
>               Encoding: x-uuencode

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

Looks interesting though...



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