From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In alt.ascii-art, Colin Randall   wrote:   
   > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:42:04 +0000   
   > Eli the Bearded writes   
      
   Yup, I've been around a while.   
      
   > In alt.ascii-art.animation, desoftware  wrote:   
   >  > As part of my CS syllabus,I have to be able to use news groups as I am new   
   >  > to this I choose this one, because it looks interesting, I have heard of   
   >  > ascii art, but could you define what ascii animation is?   
   >   
   > Compile and run this program. It was written with a vt100 in mind,   
   > but other terminal types should work. Maybe even a dos window.   
   >   
   > Elijah   
   > ------                                          /* cc signature.c -lm */   
   > main(){int i,j,k,l;for(i=-12;i<13;i++,printf("\033[H")){for(l=61968*457+   
   > 1,l*=5;l>8;l>>=4)p(97-(l>>22)+(l&15));for(j=-12;j<12;){for(k=j+12?-12:-6   
   > ;12>k;)p((l=k*k+++i*i+j*j)<12*12?(l=sqrt(l))[".,:;iIJYVSOM"]:32);j++<11?   
   > p(10):0;}}puts("Elijah: elijah@workspot.net");}p(int m){printf("%c",m);}   
      
   That's a middle version. Over the years I reworked it several times for   
   several email addresses. There's a bit of trickery to getting the   
   blocktext code to work while changing the length of the email address.   
   Here's the latest version with an up-to-date email address, I include it   
   in the vt100-slowcat repo.   
      
   main(h,i,j,k,l){for(i=-12;i<13;i++,printf("\e[H")){for(l=858163*'!'-2,l*=5;   
   l>8;l>>=4)p(97-(l>>22)+(l&15));for(j=-12;j<12;){for(k=-15+3*(j==-12);15>k;)   
   p(h=(l=k*k+++i*i+j*j)<13*13?(l=sqrt(l))["..,:;iIJYVSOM"]:32),p(h);12>++j?p(   
   10):10;}}puts("\e[JElijah\n------\n*@qaz.wtf");p(10);}p(m){printf("%c",m);}   
      
   Here's the Makefile entry for it:   
      
   signature: signature.c   
   	@echo Lots of warnings are expected for this program   
   	gcc -std=c89 -o signature signature.c -lm   
      
   Elijah   
   ------   
   hasn't tried to compile it with clang   
      
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