Questions tagged [animation]
This tag is for challenges involving an output (graphical or ASCII-art) which changes with time.
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My eight braille pattern progressive snake spinner
Introduction
I would like to drawn a nice spinner by using eight braille patterns on two lines, drawing a square of 8x8 pixel, for showing a kind of snake growing and reducing:
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Loading Circle Animation
Loading Circle Animation
Challenge
Write a full program that takes no input (or has an unused input) that displays exactly the following ASCII animation for as long as possible or only 8 frames.
Frame ...
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Golf me a polygonal loader
Codidact post, CGCC Sandbox, Codidact Sandbox
Given three positive integers as input, animate an ascii-art polygonal loading symbol on the screen.
Intro
You will be given three inputs, \$n\$, \$l\$, ...
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Help Notwen simulate gravity!
Notwen wants to study the kinematics of bodies thrown from big heights in a uniform gravitational field but unfortunately he doesn't have the technical possibility to go to sufficiently high places ...
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Simulate a Cisco Ping
Premise:
For those in networking, you've most likely sent a ping to or from some device to make sure everything's properly connected. Cisco, a popular company in networking[citation needed], has a ...
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Animate Jacob's ASCII Ladder
You may have seen Jacob's Ladder in children's science museums. If you're not familiar with what they look like, there are several images and video examples on the Wikimedia Commons. The challenge ...
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Make a hammer animation
The goal is to make a two frame animation with ASCII art of a hammer smacking a table.
Trailing white-space is allowed and the frames need to repeat continuously. The program should iterate over both ...
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Falcon Heavy stages
Choose a set of four bytes without replacement (i.e. no byte repeated), and not necessarily in any particular order, from any one of the following four sets:
The characters of any one single-byte ...
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Implement the Boids algorithm
Introduction
The Boids Algorithm is a relatively simple demonstration of emergent behavior in a group. It has three main rules, as described by its creator, Craig Reynolds:
The basic flocking model ...
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Create a scissors animation!
Try to create a simple ASCII art scissors animation!
Challenge
All inputs will be integers -31 through 31.
The output will be an animation (To be outputted somewhere, as long as the previous frame is ...
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The Double Slit Experiment
A lazy physicist has the job to perform the double slit experiment. However, they are lazy and can't be bothered to set up all the equipment themselves and so are going to simulate the effects. They ...
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Show me some fireworks!
Given, in any way and order,
dimensions (in whichever order you want)
a probability (in whatever format you want)
number of iterations (you may choose whether to count the initial state or not)
do ...
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Sinusoidal ASCII-art animated text
I somewhat miss those old demos showing the capabilities of computers when they were called x86 instead of i3, i5 and i7. One of the first I watched in my 386 was the Unreal demo from Future Crew that ...
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The dot is chasing me! [closed]
Your Task
Write a program that displays a dot that moves toward the position of your mouse at 4 pixels per second. The dot must be 100 pixels big and the window must fill the computer screen.
Input
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Buzzby Berkeley Robot Hokey Pokey
Buzzby Berkeley Robot Hokey Pokey
Task
Write a program or function to produce an ASCII art animation depicting a line of robots dancing to the lyrics of the Hokey Pokey (or Cokey, if you prefer) in ...