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adr
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Posted: 11th Jul 2003 19:46
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I needed to view this in 1024x768, full screen mode on MSIE (hit F11)....


http://pcfil.com/matrix.html
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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 11th Jul 2003 22:14
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Wow! It quite possibly is. Its a simple idea but it's effective

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CrayZemon
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HOW?! HOW?! HOW?!????!

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Ian T
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Holy crap, that's pretty neat. Reminds me of the matrix demo in the 20-liner section, and Crystal Space's ASCII renderer.

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Mattman
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wow.

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DID YOU KNOW THAT ???
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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 12th Jul 2003 00:56
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Quote: "HOW?! HOW?! HOW?!????! "


They probably just wrote a program that divides the screen into so many sections, then they detect the darkness of section of each frame, and replace different levels of darkness with different character. The more space the character takes up, the darker the area appears. E.g. i = light ; w = dark.

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adr
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Posted: 12th Jul 2003 02:43
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Still... doesn't make it any less impressive?

I'm still curious as to how this thread, with such a title hasn't been viewed more times

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Dazzag
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Posted: 12th Jul 2003 03:04
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It's no big deal. Programs have been around for as long as I remember that can take an image and turn it into letters. Just someone took that and make a program that could do it with movies. Obvious really. Search the internet. I did the same years ago and got a load of static image convertors, although nothing existed for movies. Not too difficult to work out though as movies are just lots of still images. Heh, I remember we used to get them working on Sun Sparcstations (before we found and compiled JPeg and MPeg viewers). Then (on 21inch screens) we used to reduce the windows down to miniture level (would scale properly), and then you had a nice mono image appear when the letters became pixel size. Defeated the point really... anyone remember the famous Snoopy picture?

Still, like you said, it still looks really cool.

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the_winch
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text mode Unreal Tournament
http://icculus.org/~chunky/ut/aaut/
the libary that makes it all work
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/
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adr
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Posted: 13th Jul 2003 22:24
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I was more impressed that the browser/javascript engine could update a screen full of text quickly enough...

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