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Remember when people used to draw pictures using typewriter characters? No? Well, I do (but of course I'm a grandpa, so I remember a lot of old things). I have provided a modest sample to the left, which illustrates the concept, but pretty well exhausts my artistic abilities. Simon Janson of New Zealand has carried this to an insane extreme with his "Asciimation" version of "Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope" from 20th Century Text.
Supposedly, George Lucas nearly fell over laughing when he saw this. But his lawyers told him he had to pursue it as a copyright violation. So Lucas, who reportedly loves parodies of his movies (like "Hardware Wars" and Weird Al's Star Wars-related song parodies) told Simon Janson he would have to shut the site down - but only until Lucas' lawyers could draw up a free licensing agreement and Janson returned it signed. All of this took a couple of weeks, during which the site was down. Even though Janson has been working on this for years, it is still a "work in progress". But the result is great. Give this at least a couple of minutes after the applet loads - it grows on you. |
From the same great folks who brought you the "Annals of Improbable Research" (above).
Of course in this "internet age", somebody had to put this on a web page. John Chuang was up to the challenge! Mr. Chuang explains some of the theory on his Musical Dice Games web page.