[samstave]

This is lovely.

First, I could only imagine playing ASCII like games (such as old Roguelikes, especially ones with outside worlds, such as OMEGA[0], with this as animating the fields, waters, etc - would be interesting.

However, I was really drawn to how this might be used on GIS pointclouds, topographical maps (for animating flows down topographic GIS data?)

[0] http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2011/05/game-55-omega-1988.ht...