Ascii art

Characters drawn with characters.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art

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 notes

On auto-generating ascii art…

Mplayer AALIB support: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/h/4441

sudo install aalib

To install mplayer in macports:

sudo port install mplayer-devel

To watch a ‘normal video’

mplayer video1.avi

To watch an “ascii video”

mplayer -vo aa video1.avi

So far have not been able to get aalib running with mplayer in macports. Here’s how it works in linux: http://jamsubuntu.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-watch-any-video-in-ascii.html