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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 10 Mar 2001.
Re: movie making tips (particularly speed)

Re: movie making tips (particularly speed)

Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> writes:

> I was trying to make an ascii art movie that can just be 'cat'ed on
> a vt100-compatiible terminal today, but I ran into a problem.
> 
> A movie which is supposed to take a good two minutes whizzes by in
> just a second on my xterm. How can I slow things down? As an
> experiment I added about 100k of nulls bewteen frames but that
> didn't slow it down all that much.

Perhaps you could repeat each frame several times.

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