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Ertdfgcvb

by mbostock on 10/28/23, 3:00 AM with 60 comments

  • by luispauloml on 10/30/23, 12:30 PM

    Removing the "mode=screensaver" parameter from the URL:

    >ertdfgcvb

    >Studio for design and code based in Lugano, Switzerland.

    >Specialized in procedural graphic design for screen and print; research and development, prototyping and implementation of interactive installations for exhibitions, stages and events.

    And here is a link with some of their art: https://foundation.app/@ertdfgcvb

    There are also some links in their homepage too. The I liked the most was: https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz

  • by PyWoody on 10/30/23, 1:37 PM

  • by bjackman on 10/30/23, 7:23 PM

    This reminds me a little of the 404 page I made back in university (except it actually looks nice!)

    http://yawn.io/404

    Fun fact: it doesn't have a hard coded bitmap it renders in your system font onto a canvas and reads the pixels out and then converts to text.

  • by SpaceL10n on 10/30/23, 5:24 PM

    If you see a bunch of random ascii characters jumping around on the screen, try adjusting your Browser zoom to zoom out a bit. On my 4k screen with Windows providing 300% UI Scaling, I had to zoom Chrome out to 33% to see the wavy ascii text art.

  • by enigmarc on 10/30/23, 1:04 PM

    If you like animated ASCII art then I'm sure you'll like this:

    https://www.gifcii.fun

  • by xrd on 10/30/23, 1:03 PM

    Fun fact: if you have gstreamer installed, you can use a pipeline like aasink to output any video as ascii-art. For example:

    gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! aasink

  • by nerdbert on 10/30/23, 1:00 PM

    Brings me back to all the time (and paper) I wasted in the 1970s writing programs to do abstract ASCII art on line printers. Watching those patterns made me feel like a child again!

  • by snarfed on 10/30/23, 3:42 PM

    This has demo scene written all over it, in the best possible way.

  • by saltyoutburst on 10/30/23, 10:30 PM

    It's great to see simple non-productized playfulness on the internet again.

    All the fun experiments on https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/ remind me of Yugo Nakamura's now-defunct site http://yugop.com/ from back in the early 2000s.

    You can catch a little glimpse of his style with the bottom menu on https://web.archive.org/web/20040804050646/http://www.yugop...., but unfortunately the main body of the site (which was the best bit) doesn't work anymore because it was built with Flash.

    Some of his current work with https://tha.jp/ still has a great organic fun feel to it.

  • by jedberg on 10/30/23, 5:29 PM

    This domain name looks like someone pressed their ubikey to pick the name.

  • by sandgiant on 10/30/23, 12:28 PM

    Pretty cool!

    If you go to the index page it tells you what it is; a studio for design and code based in Switzerland.

    https://ertdfgcvb.xyz

  • by noufalibrahim on 10/30/23, 11:41 AM

    Reminds me of the BB demo from aalib.

  • by mosburger on 10/30/23, 7:00 PM

    Welcome, to Ertdfgcvb. This is Ertdfgcvb. The unattainable is UNKNOWN at Ertdfgcvb!

    /me wonders if anyone still knows this reference

  • by fb03 on 10/30/23, 4:11 PM

    Too cool. Suddenly, I want to play nethack.

  • by latchkey on 10/30/23, 3:53 PM

    Discussions on similar submissions:

    ASCII Play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010217 (July 30, 2021 — 158 points, 20 comments)

  • by throwaway167 on 10/30/23, 11:37 AM

    What's it about?

  • by mrb on 10/30/23, 10:47 PM

    It saddens me that a browser consumes one and a half CPU cores to render a measly ~300x60 characters at 30 fps. Manipulating even just text in the DOM has so much overhead... That's on Linux with the latest stable Chrome on hardware less than 2 years old.

    Nonetheless, cool animation.

  • by swayvil on 10/30/23, 7:09 PM

    Lush and deep. It's got scifi power.

  • by CelticBard on 10/30/23, 10:51 PM

    is the font iosevka? very cool

  • by ShadowBanThis01 on 10/30/23, 10:46 PM

    Is what?

  • by colesantiago on 10/30/23, 11:40 AM

    Be careful this site makes your computer fans scream and your devices run hot.

    I have no clue what this or why its needed is other than it (creatively?) drains my battery.