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Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup

103 points by gw 5y ago

bravura 5y ago
This seems very cool but the only video is a really slow paced 30-minute screencast. Is there a short demo?
- capableweb 5y ago
  https://youtu.be/zCbS0qmLxj8?t=204 https://youtu.be/zCbS0qmLxj8?t=204 You could have just waited 3 minutes :)
  - owlbynight 5y ago
    Not how the Internet works
nxpnsv 5y ago
I like it! Not only the project which looks great, but also the relaxed presentation including factually correct statements about the 80s.
lubujackson 5y ago
I have a soft spot for ANSI art and secretly hope it has a reason to come back in a fresh way like pixel art has. The 1x2 blocks are just so iconic. I fooled around making some tools to do stuff like parse a GIF of an ANSI back to ANSI and devolve a photo to (crummy) ANSI art the way some scripts do with ASCII, but it is pretty remedial compared to the code that exists for futzing with pixel art.
- IggleSniggle 5y ago
  I suspect that you will appreciate rexpaint (and also the game it was created for, Cogmind): https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/ https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/ If you are a fan of this aesthetic and would like to visit it in audio form, it’s more “Lofi inspired” but it checks all the right boxes for me; I also recommend checking out SunVox: https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
- ilaksh 5y ago
  The LaGrange Gemini client supports ANSI foreground colors. Gemini and Gopher have some good sites with ANSI art. Unfortunately I don't remember them off the top of my head.
- cp437 5y ago
  what do you mean 'come back'? has it ever been away? https://16colo.rs/ https://16colo.rs/
  - enriquto 5y ago
    love your username, it suits perfectly your comment
whoopdedo 5y ago
Back in the day, there was an extension to ANSI control codes called ANSI Music[1]. It borrowed the musical notation from IBM-BASIC's (and GW-BASIC) 'PLAY' statement. The standalone ANSIPLAY would play them back, or with the Telimate terminal emulator it'd play in the background while you used a BBS. The last version of ANSIPLAY[2] was 2.1 I believe. [1] http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/ http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/ [2] https://bbs.retropc.se/smmansi/00index.html https://bbs.retropc.se/smmansi/00index.html
- nmg 5y ago
  Yes! TheDraw 4.63 allowed you to include ANSI music control sequences in your animations.
ArtWomb 5y ago
"Which decade was best, and why was it the 80s" Birth of Hip-Hop. New Wave. Electronic. Blondie. Michael Jackson's "Thriller", which echoes to this day in Justin Bieber's "Peaches". Metallica in their prime. Prince & the Revolution. Faith No More's Epic to close things out. And, of course, Rick Astley ;) Recently heard Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" for the first time in years and couldn't help but think it sounds better with age, better than anything today. Then a Bauhaus cover of Brian Eno's "Third Uncle" came on ... Bauhaus - Third Uncle (1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sILbx5xbwPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sILbx5xbwPY
- travbrack 5y ago
  >better than anything today Pretty bold claim. Do you listen to a lot of modern music?
bndw 5y ago
Cool project. I really enjoyed the screencast- you sold me on giving it a whirl.

103 points by gw 5y ago

bravura 5y ago

This seems very cool but the only video is a really slow paced 30-minute screencast. Is there a short demo?

capableweb 5y ago
https://youtu.be/zCbS0qmLxj8?t=204 https://youtu.be/zCbS0qmLxj8?t=204 You could have just waited 3 minutes :)
- owlbynight 5y ago
  Not how the Internet works

nxpnsv 5y ago

I like it! Not only the project which looks great, but also the relaxed presentation including factually correct statements about the 80s.

lubujackson 5y ago

I have a soft spot for ANSI art and secretly hope it has a reason to come back in a fresh way like pixel art has. The 1x2 blocks are just so iconic. I fooled around making some tools to do stuff like parse a GIF of an ANSI back to ANSI and devolve a photo to (crummy) ANSI art the way some scripts do with ASCII, but it is pretty remedial compared to the code that exists for futzing with pixel art.

IggleSniggle 5y ago
I suspect that you will appreciate rexpaint (and also the game it was created for, Cogmind): https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/ https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/ If you are a fan of this aesthetic and would like to visit it in audio form, it’s more “Lofi inspired” but it checks all the right boxes for me; I also recommend checking out SunVox: https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
ilaksh 5y ago
The LaGrange Gemini client supports ANSI foreground colors. Gemini and Gopher have some good sites with ANSI art. Unfortunately I don't remember them off the top of my head.
cp437 5y ago
what do you mean 'come back'? has it ever been away? https://16colo.rs/ https://16colo.rs/
- enriquto 5y ago
  love your username, it suits perfectly your comment

whoopdedo 5y ago

Back in the day, there was an extension to ANSI control codes called ANSI Music[1]. It borrowed the musical notation from IBM-BASIC's (and GW-BASIC) 'PLAY' statement. The standalone ANSIPLAY would play them back, or with the Telimate terminal emulator it'd play in the background while you used a BBS. The last version of ANSIPLAY[2] was 2.1 I believe. [1] http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/ http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/ [2] https://bbs.retropc.se/smmansi/00index.html https://bbs.retropc.se/smmansi/00index.html

nmg 5y ago
Yes! TheDraw 4.63 allowed you to include ANSI music control sequences in your animations.

ArtWomb 5y ago

"Which decade was best, and why was it the 80s" Birth of Hip-Hop. New Wave. Electronic. Blondie. Michael Jackson's "Thriller", which echoes to this day in Justin Bieber's "Peaches". Metallica in their prime. Prince & the Revolution. Faith No More's Epic to close things out. And, of course, Rick Astley ;) Recently heard Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" for the first time in years and couldn't help but think it sounds better with age, better than anything today. Then a Bauhaus cover of Brian Eno's "Third Uncle" came on ... Bauhaus - Third Uncle (1982) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sILbx5xbwPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sILbx5xbwPY

travbrack 5y ago
>better than anything today Pretty bold claim. Do you listen to a lot of modern music?

bndw 5y ago

Cool project. I really enjoyed the screencast- you sold me on giving it a whirl.