Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
by rastapasta on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:17PM
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thank you for the big smile and amazement about MapSCII being adapted for a whole new level of creativity - beautiful project, kudos to you!
Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
by rbanffy on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:15PM
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Can I try adding Teletext mosaic support? It’s 2x3 only, but, unlike Braille, it’s evenly spaced.
something very soothing about this project. I love it.
Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
by naikrovek on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:49PM
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two homes! is this common or am I a mere plebe with my single home?
Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
by gregsadetsky on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:52PM
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Parent's/"home home", and my own home in a city 3 hours away. :-)
I once heavily hacked the (very!) well organized and readable code to send the vector features -- the roads -- to an Arduino that was generating a TV signal. I actually used two Arduinos, one showing text labels only, the other one for line features.
MapSCII was programmed to slowly pan between two of my homes (between Quebec City and Montreal), along the highway connecting these cities. The pan was in real time -- 300km in about 3 hours. I've been going back and forth between these cities for many years. This art piece, named "Contrecœur" (a city name along the way, and also "against one's heart" in French) was a digital contemplative take on this.
A video, if anyone's curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTbg49Tx7k
@rastapasta, thanks a lot for your work!