Animation of Martin Atkins

In article <34F...@wing.rug.nl>, Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl>
wrote:
> 
> I've rewritten the animation Veronica made of Martin announcing his
> homepage.
> The new version is about 8 times smaller, and I hope it will run in MSIE3.
> That's right! MSIE3! Can anyone with MSIE3 confirm that it runs? it's at:
>   http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/mga-anim.html
> 
> BTW: This new way of animating should also make colors and other html
>      elements possible.
> 
> BTW2: Nice anagram: "Martin G. Atkins" - "Isn't making art"  :)
> 
> Greetz,
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How did you DO that? I can't seem to see from the document source.

And yes, it works in MSIE 3.0


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I've rewritten the animation Veronica made of Martin announcing his
homepage.
The new version is about 8 times smaller, and I hope it will run in MSIE3.
That's right! MSIE3! Can anyone with MSIE3 confirm that it runs? it's at:
  http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/mga-anim.html

BTW: This new way of animating should also make colors and other html
     elements possible.

BTW2: Nice anagram: "Martin G. Atkins" - "Isn't making art"  :)

Greetz,
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 \ `._,--'           ,    ___,' Herman Hiddema ----------------------
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 /,'    ``--.._____\/--''       http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod ----------

Shimrod (csg...@wing.rug.nl) wrote:
:   http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/mga-anim.html
: BTW: This new way of animating should also make colors and other html
:      elements possible.

Nice. It seems frames can be handy after all. (Although there'd be no
need for those frames at all if JavaScript could modify just parts of
a document..)

I made a slightly fancier version of it, I hope you don't mind:
 http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ascii/anim/mga-anim.html

It still has a small problem, though. It keeps on flashing as the
display is updated. No big problem, but an annoyance anyway. :(

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llizard wrote:
> 
> In article <34F...@wing.rug.nl>, Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've rewritten the animation Veronica made of Martin announcing his homepage.
> > The new version is about 8 times smaller, and I hope it will run in MSIE3.
> > That's right! MSIE3! Can anyone with MSIE3 confirm that it runs? it's at:
> >   http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/mga-anim.html
> >
> > BTW: This new way of animating should also make colors and other html
> >      elements possible.
> >
> > BTW2: Nice anagram: "Martin G. Atkins" - "Isn't making art"  :)
> >
> > Greetz,
> > --
> >                 (`.                 ____________________________
> >                  \ `.              / __/ / / /     /_  /   /_  /
> >                   )  `._..---._    \__ \   \ \ \_\ \   \ \ \_\ \
> > \`.       __...---`         o  )   /___/_/_/_/_/ /_/_/_/___/___/
> >  \ `._,--'           ,    ___,' Herman Hiddema ----------------------
> >   ) ,-._          \  )   _,-'   ----------- mailto:shi...@fmf.ml.org
> >  /,'    ``--.._____\/--''       http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod ----------
> .
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>          <    \  \    / / \ \    / |
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>          <
>        ^^|\
> ejm97    //
> 
> How did you DO that? I can't seem to see from the document source.
> 
> And yes, it works in MSIE 3.0
> 
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I did it using frames, one taking 100% of the page, the other taking
the rest (not much left). The source is in the invisible frame, which
constantly writes the next picture to the fullscreen frame. the source
can be found at:
  http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/src.html

I've made a new page to give Martin some color using html, it's at:
  http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/mga-color.html
The source is at:
  http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/color.html

I've also tried to set a different bgcolor for the page, but that looked
really bad, because it constantly flashed from grey to black (the color I
tried) and back with each frame.

Greetz,
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 /,'    ``--.._____\/--''       http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod ----------

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> 
> Shimrod (csg...@wing.rug.nl) wrote:
> :   http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/mga-anim.html
> : BTW: This new way of animating should also make colors and other html
> :      elements possible.
> 
> Nice. It seems frames can be handy after all. (Although there'd be no
> need for those frames at all if JavaScript could modify just parts of
> a document..)

The nice thing about this page is that it uses frames, but not in a bad way.
I don't like frames either, but since one of these takes 100% of the screen,
and the other is invisible, it's nice. The not so nice thin about this way
of animating is that you can't insert it in a page like you can with a
textarea. You could offcourse write the rest of the page with it, but then
the whole page would be flashing, which would be really annoying.
 
> I made a slightly fancier version of it, I hope you don't mind:
>  http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ascii/anim/mga-anim.html

very nice! I didn't think of that yet. I made a color version at:
  http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/mga-color.html
 
> It still has a small problem, though. It keeps on flashing as the
> display is updated. No big problem, but an annoyance anyway. :(
> 

Yes, but that's a problem that can't be solved, it already did that with
the textarea version.

Greetz,
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.------------- Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl> wrote...
| The not so nice thin about this way
| of animating is that you can't insert it in a page like you can with a
| textarea. You could offcourse write the rest of the page with it, but
then
| the whole page would be flashing, which would be really annoying.
'-------------------------------------

Would it be possible to use an 'inline frame' to do this.... I don`t know
how these work because I don`t know the floating frame syntax.


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Martin Atkins wrote:
> 
> .------------- Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl> wrote...
> | The not so nice thin about this way
> | of animating is that you can't insert it in a page like you can with a
> | textarea. You could offcourse write the rest of the page with it, but 
> | then the whole page would be flashing, which would be really annoying.
> '-------------------------------------
> 
> Would it be possible to use an 'inline frame' to do this.... I don`t know
> how these work because I don`t know the floating frame syntax.

Neither do I. But does IE3 support that? I don't think so.
Another possibility would be to popup a small window containing the animation.
Tell me what you think.

Greetz,
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  ==_._/\     without frames, but all       |-------'     Herman Hiddema
T"""T  _/|      I've succeeded in sofar     |         shi...@fmf.ml.org
|   | /| |        is crashing my machine.   | http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod

Shimrod wrote:
> 
> Martin Atkins wrote:
> >
> > .------------- Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl> wrote...
> > | The not so nice thin about this way
> > | of animating is that you can't insert it in a page like you can with a
> > | textarea. You could offcourse write the rest of the page with it, but
> > | then the whole page would be flashing, which would be really annoying.
> > '-------------------------------------
> >
> > Would it be possible to use an 'inline frame' to do this.... I don`t know
> > how these work because I don`t know the floating frame syntax.
> 
> Neither do I. But does IE3 support that? I don't think so.
> Another possibility would be to popup a small window containing the animation.
> Tell me what you think.
> 
> Greetz,
> --
>   <]   O -. I'm trying to do it             /Shimrod\___________________
>   ==_._/\     without frames, but all       |-------'     Herman Hiddema
> T"""T  _/|      I've succeeded in sofar     |         shi...@fmf.ml.org
> |   | /| |        is crashing my machine.   | http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod
IM  looking  for  st patricks day  ascii art  any ideas

In article <34F...@wing.rug.nl>, Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl>
wrote:
>
> BTW2: Nice anagram: "Martin G. Atkins" - "Isn't making art"  :)

[snip]

And in article <34F...@wing.rug.nl>, Shimrod wrote:
> 
> Martin Atkins wrote:
> >
> > .------------- Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl> wrote...
> > | The not so nice thin about this way
> > | of animating is that you can't insert it in a page like you can with a
> > | textarea. You could offcourse write the rest of the page with it, but
> > | then the whole page would be flashing, which would be really annoying.
> > '-------------------------------------
> >
> > Would it be possible to use an 'inline frame' to do this.... I don`t know
> > how these work because I don`t know the floating frame syntax.
> 
> Neither do I. But does IE3 support that? I don't think so.
> Another possibility would be to popup a small window containing the animation.
[snip]
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>   <]   O -. I'm trying to do it             /Shimrod\___________________
>   ==_._/\     without frames, but all       |-------'     Herman Hiddema
> T"""T  _/|      I've succeeded in sofar     |         shi...@fmf.ml.org
> |   | /| |        is crashing my machine.   | http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod

.

^^^^%---
 "   \ Brrrr. popups....

another nice anagram "Herman Hiddema" - "he harmed a mind"



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.-------------- Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl> wrote...
| Neither do I. But does IE3 support that? I don't think so.
| Another possibility would be to popup a small window containing the
animation.
| Tell me what you think.
'------------------

I think it may do, because my attempts resulted in a message saying my
floating frame syntax was 'out of date'. The popup window is a nice idea
but MSIE3 on my system always loads blank.htm into both windows first,
before reloading the previous document... which takes a while... and I
always see 'This page contains a script which is taking a long time to
finish' messages....


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In article <6dlkqs$u7$1...@nnrp1.snfc21.pbi.net>, lov...@pacbell.net wrote:
> 
[snip of discussion of animation of Martin Atkins]
> IM  looking  for  st patricks day  ascii art  any ideas

One idea is to start a new thread.

Sorry, I don't have any green things to do with St.Patrick's Day but
here's on of Joan's:

-=[ rainbow ]=-  3/97

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jgs  `=========`


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