animation gif for ascii art

On 31 Jan 1997, PeteCasso wrote:
> Question: Is there a utility for converting ascii art into animation gif
> for web page content creation? I am thinking of creating ascii movie clips
> (for Frogstein and Birdstein and others).

Hi Pete,
 The animation I like is at this web site:
http://nttaurus.netconx.de/highKO/sault.html

So I guess http://nttaurus.netconx.de/highKO/
would be a good person to ask how they set up their web site
animation. If that is the style you are looking for. I wish I knew
the web programmer personally or I could give you his or her email 
address right now. Anyway, I hope this helps ya one step closer.
Take care, Jon Melusky

On 1 Feb 1997, PeteCasso wrote:
> I found a utility that does part of the job, i.e. it allows me to generate
> a series of gif files (with ascii art content).
> 
> I now need an animation engine for posting on the web, displaying the gif
> files as frames in a movie clip. These animation engines must be quite
> common, I see animated gifs quite often on the www.
> 
> Anyone knows about an animation gif utility?

Hi Pete,  I would hazzard a guess that if you went to a web site with a
animated gif, then you could select "view source" (with Netscape). Then
you could copy and paste the html from there into your page. Then change
the names of the gifs listed in the html. Then upload your gifs to your
isp. Does that sound good?
Geocities has a flashing gif ad at the bottom of every page they have I
think. It seems like you could use that html to your wants? 
  I should buy Paint SHop Pro to try this out!
Take care, Jon Melusky

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Question: Is there a utility for converting ascii art into animation gif
for web page content creation? I am thinking of creating ascii movie clips
(for Frogstein and Birdstein and others).
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I found a utility that does part of the job, i.e. it allows me to generate
a series of gif files (with ascii art content).

I now need an animation engine for posting on the web, displaying the gif
files as frames in a movie clip. These animation engines must be quite
common, I see animated gifs quite often on the www.

Anyone knows about an animation gif utility?

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I couldn't find a utility that does gif animation, but I downloaded a few
demos of commercial software, I like the WebPainter quite a lot, playing
with it quite a bit now!

Pete

pet...@aol.com (PeteCasso) wrote:

>I found a utility that does part of the job, i.e. it allows me to generate
>a series of gif files (with ascii art content).
>
>I now need an animation engine for posting on the web, displaying the gif
>files as frames in a movie clip. These animation engines must be quite
>common, I see animated gifs quite often on the www.
>
>Anyone knows about an animation gif utility?
>
Try "Gif Construction Set" by Alchemy Mindworks. I don't remember
their URL, but  you can download the shareware from their site.

Good luck,

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PeteCasso wrote:
> 
> I found a utility that does part of the job, i.e. it allows me to generate
> a series of gif files (with ascii art content).
> 
> I now need an animation engine for posting on the web, displaying the gif
> files as frames in a movie clip. These animation engines must be quite
> common, I see animated gifs quite often on the www.
> 
> Anyone knows about an animation gif utility?
> 
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Pete,

Here's an addy that might be of help to you.

http://www.mindworkshop.com     

Later,

hgwyman
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hgwyman

J. Melusky (wha...@u.washington.edu) wrote:
> On 1 Feb 1997, PeteCasso wrote:
> > I found a utility that does part of the job, i.e. it allows me to generate
> > a series of gif files (with ascii art content).
> > 
> > I now need an animation engine for posting on the web, displaying the gif
> > files as frames in a movie clip. These animation engines must be quite
> > common, I see animated gifs quite often on the www.
> > 
> > Anyone knows about an animation gif utility?

Gif Construction Set (from alchemy)
Miscrosoft GIF Animator (look for on the MS Image composer page)
GifgIfgiF
Animagic

this are some of the utilities that can compose animated gifs ... there's no
html script for doing such thing as animated gif, they're only one file that
conforms to the GIF89a (compuserve did it)

Find a Tucows mirror site and get into the image viewers section, you can find
almost all of this and more in there. The only mirror I know is:

http://mirrors.telepac.pt/tucows/

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PeteCasso wrote:
> I now need an animation engine for posting on the web, displaying the gif
> files as frames in a movie clip. These animation engines must be quite
> common, I see animated gifs quite often on the www.

- a simple way to animation is javascript
- animated ascii in a text area
example http://nttaurus.netconx.de/highKO/sault.html


<BASE HREF="file:///D|/issystem/ishome/highKO/sault.html">

<HTML>
<HEAD>
    <TITLE>Somersault</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<script language="JavaScript">
    var max=0;
    function tlist(){ max=tlist.arguments.length;
        for(i=0;i<max;i++) this[i]=tlist.arguments[i];
    }

    tl = new tlist(
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------//
    //    o   \ o /  _ o         __|    \ /     |__        o _  \ o /   o    //
    //   /|\    |     /\   __\o    \o    |    o/    o/__   /\     |    /|\   //
    //   / \   / \   | \  /)  |    ( \  /o\  / )    |  (\  / |   / \   / \   //
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------//
        "  o\n"+
        " /|\\\n"+
        " / \\",

        " \\o/\n"+
        "  |\n"+
        " / \\",

        "  _ o\n"+
        "   /\\\n"+
        "  | \\",

        "   \n"+
        "     __\\o\n"+
        "    /)  |",

        "     __|\n"+
        "       \\o\n"+
        "       ( \\",

        "       \\ /\n"+
        "        |\n"+
        "       /o\\",

        "          |__\n"+
        "        o/\n"+
        "       / )",

        " \n"+
        "        o/__\n"+
        "        |  (\\",

        "            o _\n"+
        "           /\\\n"+
        "           / |",

        "            \\o/\n"+
        "             |\n"+
        "            / \\",

        "             o\n"+
        "            /|\\\n"+
        "            / \\",

//half

        "             o\n"+
        "            /|\\\n"+
        "            / \\",

        "            \\o/\n"+
        "             |\n"+
        "            / \\",

        "            o _\n"+
        "           /\\\n"+
        "           / |",

        " \n"+
        "        o/__\n"+
        "        |  (\\",

        "          |__\n"+
        "        o/\n"+
        "       / )",

        "       \\ /\n"+
        "        |\n"+
        "       /o\\",

        "     __|\n"+
        "       \\o\n"+
        "       ( \\",

        "   \n"+
        "     __\\o\n"+
        "    /)  |",

        "  _ o\n"+
        "   /\\\n"+
        "  | \\",

        " \\o/\n"+
        "  |\n"+
        " / \\",

        "  o\n"+
        " /|\\\n"+
        " / \\"
    );
    var x=0;
    function tick() {
        document.f.t.value=tl[x];
        x++; if(x==max) x=0;
        //if(confirm('continue?'))
            setTimeout("tick()",70);
    }
    //-->
</script>

<BODY onload="tick()">
<FORM NAME=f><TEXTAREA NAME=t ROWS=3 COLS=16></TEXTAREA></FORM>
</BODY>

</HTML>

>On 1 Feb 1997, PeteCasso wrote:
>> I found a utility that does part of the job, i.e. it allows me to generate
>> a series of gif files (with ascii art content).
>> 
>> I now need an animation engine for posting on the web, displaying the gif
>> files as frames in a movie clip. These animation engines must be quite
>> common, I see animated gifs quite often on the www.
>> 
>> Anyone knows about an animation gif utility?

I use the GIF Construction Set to do my animated gif's as can be seen on
my web page (which just happens to be www.ece.curtin.edu.au/~shanaka :)
It is shareware and very easy to use if you have a look at a few examples
and play around with it a bit.

I think you can find the latest version at 

http://www.mindworkshop.com

P.S  My own Ascii Archives to be added at my own home page is due
     to be added by the end of this week.
     But don't worry I'll keep you posted! ;)

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In article <32F...@netconx.de>, Heiko Radtke <h.r...@netconx.de>
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>PeteCasso wrote:
>> I now need an animation engine for posting on the web, displaying the gif
>> files as frames in a movie clip. These animation engines must be quite
>> common, I see animated gifs quite often on the www.
>
>- a simple way to animation is javascript
>- animated ascii in a text area

Thanks for the Java example -- it looks fascinating,
but it doesn't run on either or the browsers I have; I
don't think they do Java.  They are:
  MSIE     v2.10 supplied by Demon and
  Netscape v1.22 from Netscape webpage, both for Windoze3.1 .
I won't have Win95 for a while yet; I think Java may be 32bit only.

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