[ninjin]

Absolutely wonderful idea, I hope the author had a lot of fun hacking on this.

On a slightly related note, if you have not been exposed to the BB demo using aalib, do not miss out on this gem from the late 90s (if you are on a Linux distribution you can most likely install it using your package manager, e.g. `apt-get install bb`).

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/

[bnegreve]

With aalib, you can even render videos on the terminal. E.g. on Linux:

    mplayer -vo aa video.mpg

Will use aalib to render video.mpg inside the current terminal/console. The quality is not great though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5JLjfCi0mw (Here with Vlc.)

[cben]

Use -vo caca for color output via libcaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur3iEHo6rI8#t=25