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I'm less interested in how he got Notepad in particular to do this and more interested in how convincingly he managed to represent a 3D object by projecting it

I'm less interested in how he got Notepad in particular to do this and more interested in how convincingly he managed to represent a 3D object by projecting it onto a grid of ASCII characters. I've seen plenty of ASCII art, but I've never even considered what it might look like animated. I went looking for something similar that was interactive and found ASCIICKER. It's everything I wanted and more. https://asciicker.com/y6/ https://asciicker.com/y6/

Teknoman117 6y ago
There is also libcaca: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca I remember seeing Chromium Embedded Framework had a caca backend (circa 2015) so you could use the chromium renderer in a text terminal.
pp19dd 6y ago
Whoa, Nelly. I just freaked out after hitting q and e to rotate. I thought it was just a 2d representation and ... it's not. Thanks for finding this.
KMnO4 6y ago
You can see the developer's progress in the previous versions, eg https://asciicker.com/x8/ https://asciicker.com/x8/ There are a whole bunch linked on the main page: https://asciicker.com/ https://asciicker.com/