Editing ASCII art (section)

==Animated ASCII art==
Animated ASCII art started in 1970 from so-called VT100 animations produced on [[VT100]] terminals. These animations were simply text with cursor movement instructions, deleting and erasing the characters necessary to appear animated. Usually, they represented a long hand-crafted process undertaken by a single person to tell a story.

Contemporary [[web browser]] revitalized animated ASCII art again. It became possible to display animated ASCII art via [[JavaScript]] or [[Java (Sun)|Java applets]]. Static ASCII art pictures are loaded and displayed one after another, creating the animation, very similar to how movie projectors unreel film reel and project the individual pictures on the big screen at movie theaters. A new term was born: "''ASCIImation''" – another name of ''animated ASCII art''. A seminal work in this arena is the [[Star Wars]] ASCIImation.<ref>{{cite web| first= Simon| last= Jansen| date= 18 April 2006| url= http://www.asciimation.co.nz/| title= Star "ASCIImation" Wars|publisher= Asciimation.co.nz|access-date= 18 November 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081209033917/http://www.asciimation.co.nz/| archive-date= 9 December 2008| url-status= live}}</ref> More complicated routines in JavaScript generate more elaborate ASCIImations showing effects like [[Morphing]] effects, star field emulations, fading effects and calculated images, such as [[Mandelbrot set|mandelbrot fractal]] animations.<ref name="asciimation1">[http://www.roysac.com/skylined-Morph-ASCIIanimationFrame.html ASCII Animation "Morph" by SkyLined (using JavaScript)] includes morph effects and mandelbrot fractal animation</ref><ref name="asciimation2">[http://www.roysac.com/skylined-Starfield-ASCIIanimationFrame.html ASCII Animation Starfield by SkyLined (using JavaScript)] includes fading effect and horizontal scrolling star field emulation</ref>

There are now many tools and programs that can transform raster images into text symbols; some of these tools can operate on streaming video. For example, the music video for American singer [[Beck]]'s song "[[Guero|Black Tambourine]]"<ref name="beckbt">{{cite web| url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEXaEYpifhg|title= Beck - Black Tambourine | last= BeckVEVO|date= 7 October 2009|access-date = 19 October 2017| via = YouTube}}</ref> is made up entirely of ASCII characters that approximate the original footage. [[VLC media player|VLC]], a media player software, can render any video in colored ASCII through the [[libcaca]] module.