Arnie Movie

Dan Egnor (egn...@gluttony.ugcs.caltech.edu) wrote:
: Here's a little scene from Terminator 2 that I converted into ASCII
: animation format.  Enjoy.  (type "cat t2" to display)

[ big snip ]

:end

That was great!  

Maby you could convert the whole movie to ascii and post it? ;)

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In article <199...@emba.uvm.edu>, Jake Patterson 
<jpa...@moose.uvm.edu> wrote:
>Dan Egnor (egn...@gluttony.ugcs.caltech.edu) wrote:
>: Here's a little scene from Terminator 2 that I converted into ASCII 
>: animation format.  Enjoy.  (type "cat t2" to display)
>That was great!
>Maybe you could convert the whole movie to ascii and post it? ;)

If you can supply me with an MPEG, I can do it.  By my calculations
the resulting (gzip'ed ASCII) file should be under 100 megabytes, and
with pipelining I should be able to do the whole thing in a few days.

Audio gets a bit tricky.  Closed-caption data has possibilities;
the standard ASCII BEL doesn't quite have the bandwidth to encode
speech.

Dan

>>That was great!
>>Maybe you could convert the whole movie to ascii and post it? ;)
>
>If you can supply me with an MPEG, I can do it.  By my calculations
>the resulting (gzip'ed ASCII) file should be under 100 megabytes, and
>with pipelining I should be able to do the whole thing in a few days.

	Under 100 M? The whole movie? Are you *sure*? Wow! :)

      ----------   ---------   ---       ---   ----------   ----      ---   ---
     -+-    -+-      -+-      -+-+-   -+-+-   -+-    -+-   -+-+-     -+-   -+-
    +-+             +-+      +-+ +-+-+ +-+   +-+    +-+   +-+ +-+   +-+   +-+
   ++++++++++      +++      +++  +++  +++   +++    +++   +++  +++  +++   +++
         +*+      +*+      +*+       +*+   +*+    +*+   +*+   +*+ +*+   +*+
 *+*    *+*      *+*      *+*       *+*   *+*    *+*   *+*     *+*+*
**********   *********   ***       ***   **********   ***      ****   ***

In article <199...@aber.ac.uk>, Simon Bradley 
<syb...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:

>	Under 100 M? The whole movie? Are you *sure*? Wow! :)

Order of magnitude, depending on the "quality" (picture size) and of 
course the length of the movie.  Let's revise the estimate:

Each frame is ~ 2K in size.  At 20fps, that's 2*20*3600*2 = 288000K, or
~ 300 megabytes for a 2-hour movie.  So I exaggerated a bit.

Perhaps video-on-demand through the Internet could be implemented this way. 
There could be a telnet server with a cheesy little text interface; you 
select your movie and it blasts you with ASCII.  As per my estimates it 
would only require 40K/sec bandwidth; I get that with FTP all the time.  
Again, sound is a problem, unless you want a beep every time someone talks.

I'm trying to do a Star Trek clip, but having some problems with gifscii -- 
on certain frames it outputs a full page of "~"s, causing a highly 
irritating flicker in the resulting animation.  Any idea what greyscale 
picture-to-ASCII converter would work best for this sort of thing?

Dan

In article <2t2urr$12...@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Dan Egnor <egn...@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to do a Star Trek clip, but having some problems with gifscii 

	Have you tried ascgif? I prefer it. 

	--Simon. 

In article <2t2urr$12...@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Dan Egnor <egn...@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
]In article <199...@aber.ac.uk>, Simon Bradley
]<syb...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
]
]]	Under 100 M? The whole movie? Are you *sure*? Wow! :)
]
]Order of magnitude, depending on the "quality" (picture size) and of 
]course the length of the movie.  Let's revise the estimate:
]
]Each frame is ~ 2K in size.  At 20fps, that's 2*20*3600*2 = 288000K, or
]~ 300 megabytes for a 2-hour movie.  So I exaggerated a bit.
]
[snip snip]

Then again, these types of files compress really well.  I'll bet you could
get 10 to 1 compression and turn that into 30 megabytes.

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In article <2t6bp6$i8...@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, Scott E Gilbert 
<sco...@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

>In article <2t2urr$12...@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, Dan Egnor 
><egn...@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

>]Each frame is ~ 2K in size.  At 20fps, that's 2*20*3600*2 = 288000K, or
>]~ 300 megabytes for a 2-hour movie.  So I exaggerated a bit.

>Then again, these types of files compress really well.  I'll bet you could 
>get 10 to 1 compression and turn that into 30 megabytes.

With "gzip -9" the t2.txt file chops from 212850 bytes to 47533.  That's
a reduction of ~ 4.5, so the hypothetical movie would take between 50 and
100 megabytes ....

Dan