Asciiman

An ascii art animator for cyclical cli animation loops

Apr 5, 2023

A demo of asciiman

While developing a game for the CLI, I found that animating ascii art was a bit of a pain.

I wanted to be able to define a series of frames and have them play back in a circularly-linked list so that I could loop through them. This would effectively create an animation that could be played back at a certain frame rate.

Asciiman presents a web frontend that allows you to create a grid of ascii characters and define a series of frames. You can then play back the animation at a certain frame rate and see the results.