| Florian Cramer on Mon, 21 May 2001 19:56:36 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Live ASCII Streaming |
Am Sun, 20.May.2001 um 18:42:55 -0400 schrieb Drazen Pantic: > 1.1.3 HasciiCam Hey Drazen, great that you mention HasciiCam here. HasciiCam is based on AAlib, a C library which renders bitmap into ASCII art real-time. It always seemed to me that the work of the AAlib programmers (which includes other software such as Aview, an ASCII art graphics viewer, and BB, a ASCII art graphics demo) has been silenced in Net.art because it comes straight from the Free Software community and has no links to the Net.art establishment. > 2.2. Java Player There's one problem with Java Players: All JVMs I know presuppose a graphical user interface, cannot be used under Unix or DOS text consoles and thus render the approach somewhat pointless. (Contrary to in Net.art media labs, there are still stubborn weirdos working without GUIs under the text console - like me right now -, for whom viewing ASCII video and graphics is a non-ironic alternative to wasting precious system resources on an X server!) Do you have an open spec for the decoding of the stream available? I think it would be good to write a _true_ ASCII viewer in Perl or C (which would also require less system resources than a Java applet). Florian (watching TV over hasciicam at home since a couple of months) -- http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/ http://www.complit.fu-berlin.de/institut/lehrpersonal/cramer.html GnuPG/PGP public key ID 3D0DACA2 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold