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It's a little confusing, but my read is that this is a generalized set of old font characters that were used for graphics (like code 437) plus a bunch of unicod
by lubujackson 8y ago
It's a little confusing, but my read is that this is a generalized set of old font characters that were used for graphics (like code 437) plus a bunch of unicode symbols that are also useful for graphics. With the idea being you could make much more intricate art from this font set. I think the more interesting idea would be to use it to encode movies similar to how ASCII animations work - I wonder how compressed and good looking a movie might be using this font?
- Klover 8y agoNice approach! Unless I missed something you’d still be having very few colours, a limited resolution, comparatively poor performance to an OpenGL rendered DRM output (as in, also a command line environment), and if you simply use deflate or zstd for your compression you’ll have none of the streaming benefits of h264 or newer. I like your idea though.
- PavlovsCat 8y agoI don't know if MPlayer can already take arbitrary fonts into account for playing movies back in the terminal, but it's open source, so it probably could be expanded in that way: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/screen.html http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/screen.html