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I was talking to my parents the other day and surprised myself getting pretty chocked up remembering how my dad had shown me how to program an ascii animation o

I was talking to my parents the other day and surprised myself getting pretty chocked up remembering how my dad had shown me how to program an ascii animation on his 386, and how the wonder I felt at that in many ways led me to where I am today, so many years later. These things matter.

mondrian 2y ago
Do you still have the animation?
- nimbleal 2y ago
  I’m afraid not. It was incredibly simple, but I just remember being amazed that such a thing was even possible.
- nimbleal 2y ago
  It was basically (no pun intended) this, though obviously not in bash: #!/bin/bash legs_out=( " " " .'''. " " - - " " | C ^ " " \ 7 " " | | " " / \\ " " | \\ \\ " " | \\ \\ " " / | \\ \\ " " / | \\ \\ " " / | \\ \\ " " / | |\\ \\ " " \\ \\ " " \\ " " / \\ " " / \\ " " / / \\ \\ " " / / \\ \\ " " / / \\ \\ " " / \ \\ \\ " " \\ \\ \\ \\... " " ____] [ ]" ) legs_cross=( " .'''. " " - - " " | C ^ " " \ 7 " " | | " " / \\ " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " ( | | | " " | | ) " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " | | ) " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " / | " " / | | " " \\..] / / " ) print_man() { local spaces=$1 local man=("${!2}") for line in "${man[@]}"; do printf "%*s%s\n" $spaces "" "$line" done } spaces=0 state=0 while true; do clear if (( state % 4 < 2 )); then print_man $spaces legs_out[@] else print_man $spaces legs_cross[@] fi ((spaces++)) ((state++)) if (( spaces > $(tput cols) )); then spaces=0 fi sleep 0.1 done
  - mondrian 2y ago
    This is really fun, thanks for sharing. May try to do similar with my niece.

mondrian 2y ago

Do you still have the animation?

nimbleal 2y ago
I’m afraid not. It was incredibly simple, but I just remember being amazed that such a thing was even possible.
nimbleal 2y ago
It was basically (no pun intended) this, though obviously not in bash: #!/bin/bash legs_out=( " " " .'''. " " - - " " | C ^ " " \ 7 " " | | " " / \\ " " | \\ \\ " " | \\ \\ " " / | \\ \\ " " / | \\ \\ " " / | \\ \\ " " / | |\\ \\ " " \\ \\ " " \\ " " / \\ " " / \\ " " / / \\ \\ " " / / \\ \\ " " / / \\ \\ " " / \ \\ \\ " " \\ \\ \\ \\... " " ____] [ ]" ) legs_cross=( " .'''. " " - - " " | C ^ " " \ 7 " " | | " " / \\ " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " ( | | | " " | | ) " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " | | ) " " | | | " " | | | " " | | | " " / | " " / | | " " \\..] / / " ) print_man() { local spaces=$1 local man=("${!2}") for line in "${man[@]}"; do printf "%*s%s\n" $spaces "" "$line" done } spaces=0 state=0 while true; do clear if (( state % 4 < 2 )); then print_man $spaces legs_out[@] else print_man $spaces legs_cross[@] fi ((spaces++)) ((state++)) if (( spaces > $(tput cols) )); then spaces=0 fi sleep 0.1 done
- mondrian 2y ago
  This is really fun, thanks for sharing. May try to do similar with my niece.