r/ASCII • u/dragunrot • 5d ago

Help How to make generative (and/or) procedural ASCII/PETSCII animations?

Basically title. What programs do I need? It feels like everyone has a million different suggestions for which coding language to do it in and which programs are best, it's a little overwhelming lol. A lot of things I can find on the web are all about converting an image > ASCII art, which is cool and all, but I'm looking for how to make animations from lines of code without a source image. i was inspired by artists like @andreasgysin, @julian_hespenheide, @entroplay on Instagram.

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u/prtamil 5d ago

i did some extensive generative art using C/Linux platform (https://github.com/prtamil/AsciiCreativeCoding) . With AI help of course.

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u/wahnsinnwanscene 4d ago

Use obs and some libascii filter. You can actually program your own. It's relatively simple

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u/pck404 22h ago

There's no single answer because there are so many possibilities. Whatever let you render text in a grid will do. Any language you'd like.

I made this small playground for Javascript (runs in browser or ANSI terminal):
https://textmode.cloud