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It's such a beautiful project. The telnet access, the supported zoom and scroll gestures... I once heavily hacked the (very!) well organized and readable code
by gregsadetsky 6y ago
It's such a beautiful project. The telnet access, the supported zoom and scroll gestures...
I once heavily hacked the (very!) well organized and readable code to send the vector features -- the roads -- to an Arduino that was generating a TV signal. I actually used two Arduinos, one showing text labels only, the other one for line features.
MapSCII was programmed to slowly pan between two of my homes (between Quebec City and Montreal), along the highway connecting these cities. The pan was in real time -- 300km in about 3 hours. I've been going back and forth between these cities for many years. This art piece, named "Contrecœur" (a city name along the way, and also "against one's heart" in French) was a digital contemplative take on this.
A video, if anyone's curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTbg49Tx7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTbg49Tx7k
@rastapasta, thanks a lot for your work!
- naikrovek 6y agotwo homes! is this common or am I a mere plebe with my single home?
- gregsadetsky 6y agoParent's/"home home", and my own home in a city 3 hours away. :-)
- dopidopHN 6y agoSometimes you live somewhere. And work somewhere else far away ( and sleep in a closet at night there ) It’s not great
- rastapasta 6y agothank you for the big smile and amazement about MapSCII being adapted for a whole new level of creativity - beautiful project, kudos to you!