Re: Boomer.VT

On 12/09/2021 05:01, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In alt.ascii-art.animation, Colin Randall  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> hi ... i fully expect any/all transports to strip the 'escape' chars
>> from what follows ... thus will need patching-up
> 
> Yeah. Some of the escape codes made it through, but it gets garbled
> after a while. The guy throws the boomerang and then when it starts
> to return there's a mess. (I suspect there's supposed to be a messy
> end, but NOT three boomerangs at once.)
> 
yes its garbled in the last two frames due a whitespace issue
when i look at the 'message source' line-2 and line-5 respectivly

1
2<     _
3  , /\
4 o   /<
5    //
6

1
2
3  ,  /\
4 ,   _/|
5o   / /
6

> I think I fixed it. I suspect what got stripped was trailing white
> space, not control characters. Extra spaces are an easy way to erase
> things, after all. I also added a clear screen / cursor hide at the top
> and then a cursor unhide at the end.
> 
> I checked it in to my collection of Vt100 animations and viewer:
> 
> https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat
> 
> The raw fixed animation is here:
> 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat/master/videos/other/boomer.vt
> 
>> Boomer.VT
>> ----8<----cut-here----8<----cut-here----8<----cut-here
>>
>> pictures: Matthew Thomas
> 
> First one I have credited to him. Plays well at 2400 baud (with my tool:
> "slowcat -b 2400 boomer.vt")
nice

> 
> Elijah
> ------
> and it had nothing to do with baby boomers or explosions
> 
=)

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