1968 Russian ASCII Animation

Jonathan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:50:38 +0000

This is pretty cool. A 3D cat rendered in ascii art in 1968 (!).

Next version: Globalization + Save and Print Colour Images

Jonathan — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:04:39 +0000

Just as a heads-up, the next version of the program will include the ability to translate it into whatever language you want (or change words to make them sound rude).

Originally I planned to use the inbuilt globalization stuff, but it’s unbelievable how complex it makes everything. Instead I’ve come up with my own easy system that piggybacks on the existing resource class and loads the strings from an external xml file.

The current full list of translation strings is here:
http://ascgen2.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/ascgen2/ascgen2/translation.xml

You can use any or all of these by translating the strings inside the tags.

It will also finally come with saving to colour image files, and printing in colour. Which was much harder then the translation stuff.

I’m not sure whether to have the version number as 0.8.3 or 0.9.0. Maybe 0.8.5?

Plus, I’ve changed http://www.jmsoftware.co.uk/ into a blog so I can start posting more off topic stuff without cluttering this one up, and I hope to start posting regularly soon. It also hosts a few random little programs.

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1968 Russian ASCII Animation

Next version: Globalization + Save and Print Colour Images