Show HN: An ASCII art music video animated with JavaScript

by bejdon 6/5/20, 10:40 AMwith 20 comments
by rodwon 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 bishalbon 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 tomato2juiceon 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 dandepon 6/6/20, 7:09 PM

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

by t0astbreadon 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 oefrhaon 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 tingletechon 6/5/20, 4:10 PM

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

by nihil75on 6/6/20, 3:19 PM

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

by dec0dedab0deon 6/5/20, 4:15 PM

This was awesome, great job.

by dangon 6/6/20, 8:37 PM

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