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Show HN: An ASCII art music video animated with JavaScript

by bejd on 6/5/20, 10:40 AM with 20 comments

• by rodw on 6/5/20, 3:32 PM

  I don't know what I was expecting, but I was a little disappointed that the ASCII art seems to be generated from actual video. (I assume?)

  When I first clicked the link I guess in my head I was stressing the art part of ASCII art, and was expecting something other than a super-low-res version of regular video. I was imagining something more hand-crafted. Or at least more visually interesting (like that lego-ized bit in that White Stripes video, which was probably done from real video too I suppose, but surely with manual support in some way).

  That said, the video-to-ASCII-art tech is actually pretty neat (and looks like more than a naive convert-to-grayscale-and-map-to-characters approach that I've seen for still images).

  And so is the idea of displaying music video via live JavaScript, although that part didn't actually work for me, I had to use the YouTube link to view it.

  This probably says more about me than the linked video though. It is pretty cool and creative overall.

• by bishalb on 6/7/20, 3:28 AM

  Related - AC/DC had released the music video for their song 'Rock n roll train' as an Excel spreadsheet https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ac-dc-turn-roc...

• by tomato2juice on 6/5/20, 5:04 PM

  While the size of this file is >64kb, it reminds me of the demoscene which does impressive stuff like this, but with much less space. If you're not familiar, this is an introduction https://www.slideshare.net/dfox288/introduction-to-the-demos...

• by dandep on 6/6/20, 7:09 PM

  I like this aesthetic used in new ways, like https://boniver.withspotify.com/

• by t0astbread on 6/6/20, 2:45 PM

  I like how the presentation is sometimes ambiguous because of the low resolution. For example I first thought the black lines coming out of the skull (or was it a skull?) were ants but then they started sprouting blossoms. Very nice effect!

• by oefrha on 6/6/20, 6:03 PM

  Anyone remember rickrolling over telnet?

  Or this: https://github.com/keroserene/rickrollrc (Not over telnet, but same effect.)

• by tingletech on 6/5/20, 4:10 PM

  I can't find the play button, but the video on youtube looks cool.

• by nihil75 on 6/6/20, 3:19 PM

  I like your music! Reminds me of early Sikth :)

• by dec0dedab0de on 6/5/20, 4:15 PM

  This was awesome, great job.

• by dang on 6/6/20, 8:37 PM

  Url changed from https://github.com/bejd/clad-ascii to the project page, which is nicer.