I have no idea how this works, but I do know that it’s one of the strangest, coolest things I’ve seen in a while. Search for any Vimeo video on ASCIImeo, and it’ll play back to you as text.
Not sure that this fills a specific need of any kind – although avant-garde film students and alternate dimension enthusiasts, feel free to correct me – and I recommend switching to black and white (“simple ASCII”) to cut down on the headaches. Otherwise, though, this is the exact kind of wonderful oddball thing that makes/wastes my day perfectly. [ASCIImeo via The Daily What]
glennc
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 1:09 PMthat’s pretty cool
Dave Taylor
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 1:16 AMIt’s very cool. Does anyone know how to download these?
JT
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 10:31 AMWould be surprised if you could, easily – it’s probably generated realtime in flash (ie, load and play the vimeo flv, and on each frame get the average colour and/or brightness value in a particular region and output a correlating preassigned ascii character and/or colour value in its place) and not automatically compiled or recorded before output, so rather than download you’ve have to find a way to capture it or write each frame out as an image and compile. Or somethin.