JavE animation

I did an animation in JavE java of some lovely snow ballerinas. You
may need to zoom out.
(Is there anyway to change the font for these?) I'll try a javascript
version when the next JavE comes out.



http://www.jjs-ascii.20m.com/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm

If you get an error try here:

http://www.geocities.com/jjs_ascii/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm




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On 29 Nov 2001 17:02:15 -0800, jjs...@yahoo.com (jjs) wrote:

>I did an animation in JavE java of some lovely snow ballerinas. You
>may need to zoom out.
>(Is there anyway to change the font for these?) I'll try a javascript
>version when the next JavE comes out.
>
>
>
>http://www.jjs-ascii.20m.com/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ got error wouldnt run after reloading either, there are 
banners and ad popups and I think they might be to blame. Unless you 
renamed the archive?
>
>If you get an error try here:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/jjs_ascii/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm

   ^^^^^^^^ worked fine Fantastic pictures and animation!

....cant talk now, I have to rush and finish my latest ;)
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"jjs" <jjs...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I did an animation in JavE java of some lovely snow ballerinas. You
> may need to zoom out.
> (Is there anyway to change the font for these?) I'll try a javascript
> version when the next JavE comes out.
>
>
>
> http://www.jjs-ascii.20m.com/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm
>
> If you get an error try here:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/jjs_ascii/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm
>
>
What a merry mess :)  Still waiting for the first snow, Its late
Enjoyed the snow ballerinas very much.

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jjs wrote:
> 
> I did an animation in JavE java of some lovely snow ballerinas.

Wow, it is great! It must have been a lot of work.
BTW: it is very funny to turn the speed to "as fast as possible" :)

> You may need to zoom out.
> (Is there anyway to change the font for these?)

No, but maybe I will add an options for the font size in future.

> I'll try a javascript
> version when the next JavE comes out.

It will still take a little time until the next release, for somebody
has found a lot of work for me to do...
But I have converted your jmov to JavaScript and uploaded it to my
server:
 http://www.jave.de/demo/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers.html
So you can try to adjust the font, etc. It also seems to me the
JavaScript player has performance problems with animations of that
size...

Markus
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On 29 Nov 2001 17:02:15 -0800, jjs...@yahoo.com (jjs) provoked the following
text:

>I did an animation in JavE java of some lovely snow ballerinas. You
>may need to zoom out.
>(Is there anyway to change the font for these?) I'll try a javascript
>version when the next JavE comes out.
>
>http://www.jjs-ascii.20m.com/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm
>
>If you get an error try here:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/jjs_ascii/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm

WOWIE!! That's some great anim ation you did there! Must have taken you a lot of
time to build.

Great job!
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> > I'll try a javascript
> > version when the next JavE comes out.
>
> It will still take a little time until the next release, for somebody
> has found a lot of work for me to do...

Sorry ..

> But I have converted your jmov to JavaScript and uploaded it to my
> server:
>  http://www.jave.de/demo/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers.html
> So you can try to adjust the font, etc. It also seems to me the
> JavaScript player has performance problems with animations of that
> size...

I don't see any performance problems ( Pentium 3 600 @ 810mhz )
, but I imagine you can improve that a lot by letting the script decode the next
frame right after displaying the previous frame and setting the delay the next
loop execution to the remainder of a modulus divided .getTime().

This way the script will decode the next frame while waiting to display the next
frame instead of waiting first and the displaying after calculating.

This way you also a more constant framerate.

To ensure even smoother and even framerate you could also start one thread that
does nothing but decode to a buffer array containing decoded frames, and another
thread that does nothing but show the decoded frames and calculate the correct
delay.

PUSH the frames onto the buffer array and SHIFT them from the beginning of the
array to display them

You want to set a max number of decoded frames in the buffer and having the
decode thread check if the max have been reached before proceeding to decode a
new frame or you could run out of memmory because the decode thread would keep
putting frames into the buffer faster than they could be displayed.
With looping asciimations that do not contain a large number of frames you could
expand the buffer to fit all the frames so once the frames have been decoded
once they could be displayed VERY fast .. and the stress on the pc's power would
be minimal once all frames have been decoded into the buffer.

DHTML lab have a colum on different ways of timing a DHTML animation , along
with some very helpful tips on how to improve framerate - I'm not entirely sure
that a textbox suffers under the same limitation as moving a gui object but it
contain lots of useful info on timing and delays that will make you understand
what I'm talking about better ( I hope )
http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column34/

http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/perf.html
Outline some hints on how to improve the general speed of your javascript code

I hope this helps
- CeeJay

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BTW :
http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column30/
tell how to identfy installed fonts .. very useful for providing a list of
useable fixed-width fonts.

How to speed up Java ( found this too while searching the net )
http://www.macadamian.com/column/column_fastjava.html

http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/javatojs.asp
Tell how to communicate between Java and JavaScript .. something I suggested
month back that the JMOV player should be able to do : Both to control the
applet with scripts and to control scripts from the applet.

jjs - 29 Nov 2001 17:02:15 -0800

>I did an animation in JavE java of some lovely snow ballerinas. You
>may need to zoom out.
>http://www.geocities.com/jjs_ascii/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm


Fantastic!
Now a waltz in the backround... :)


ob-ascii: Hugging snowmen ;)

   _[L J]_
   ( 'X' )
   ( -'- )
    `-^-'

Ma�ion

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In article <9ua...@MK.kasperhausen.de>, Marion Koslowski
<M...@Kasperhausen.de> wrote:

>jjs - 29 Nov 2001 17:02:15 -0800
>
>>I did an animation in JavE java of some lovely snow ballerinas. You
>>may need to zoom out.
>>http://www.geocities.com/jjs_ascii/jave/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers_java.htm
>
>
>Fantastic!
>Now a waltz in the backround... :)
>
>
>ob-ascii: Hugging snowmen ;)
>
>   _[L J]_
>   ( 'X' )
>   ( -'- )
>    `-^-'

Nice animation, jjs. I looked at the javascript version - very large
on my ancient tiny screen!!! I think the tick needs speeding up. They
were dancing in slow motion - very graceful slow motion though!

I'd like to see those little snowmen doing the snow ballet! 

obascii-art:

an attempt by the mini snowmen at an assisted leap (don't know the
balletic term for that... or even if there IS such a maneuvre)

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Markus Gebhard <ukg...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote in message news:<3C0...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>...
> jjs wrote:
> > 
> > I did an animation in JavE java of some lovely snow ballerinas.
> 
> Wow, it is great! It must have been a lot of work.
> BTW: it is very funny to turn the speed to "as fast as possible" :)
> 


funny, but can be nausiating


> > You may need to zoom out.
> > (Is there anyway to change the font for these?)
> 
> No, but maybe I will add an options for the font size in future.
> 
> > I'll try a javascript
> > version when the next JavE comes out.
> 
> It will still take a little time until the next release, for somebody
> has found a lot of work for me to do...
> But I have converted your jmov to JavaScript and uploaded it to my
> server:
>  http://www.jave.de/demo/JJS_ASCII_Snow_Dancers.html
> So you can try to adjust the font, etc. 


thanks, I put it on my site (it seems the server's prevention of
direct linking of most files was causing the java version errors). I'd
like to set the font face to Lucida Console. Couldn't figure out how
to change the font away from the browser default (with ie 6 or opera
5, the basefont= didn't effect it). But it's not that important.


>It also seems to me the
> JavaScript player has performance problems with animations of that
> size...
> 

it does seem slower on my 350 mhz machine

> Markus


jjs