Peter wrote regarding 'Re: [OT] Cool Star Wars ASCII Animation' on Tue, Jan 10 at 17:41:
> The ASCII art is produced by a program. It turns any movie into live 
> ASCII art ;-) The program is called aaxine and it is a part of most 
> Linux distributions. From the manual page:

Actually, this is an old thing that was done mostly "by hand" - not
from the real video footage.

However, I've found that if you get a large enough frame buffer-based
text display, the aalib display looks pretty good from a little ways
away.  The eMovix project uses mplayer to display video on a bootable
CD, and one of the rendering options is aalib (yes, you too can link
your video program against aalib).  There's lots of geeky cool
involved with the eMovix thing. :)

--Danny
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