HI! I’m trying to create a website that has dynamic ASCII art on the background, something that looks like this: https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupload/16622061/file/original-0710f4db4248c4e82d58b015116ce59f.mp4
I don’t know much about code so my understanding is that I have to create an embed and somehow code this into existence. Question: is Readymag a good tool for that? Do you have any examples of a similar thing done or any tips?
hey,
you could use this video to ascii generator, adjust the settings of the output, export it as video and implement it as video or even with interactivity using the shots widget into your RM website… this would be the no code solution. But keep an eye on the filesize…
wouldn’t it take forever to load though? I wanted to use ASCII as well to lighten the site - a lot of well-designed Readymag sites just take forever to open. I don’t mind firugring out some coding, but I need to understand where to start and if this platform makes sense for it
yeah, the loading time is moreover a RM problem and is not really depending on the files you implement.
If you want something faster in general you have to use another builder.
And regarding your example you would still need a video of the ant as an input, which then gets converted by code to the ascii output. You would not really safe that much in filesize as the user still has to download the video in the background.
If you want to dig in into such ascii code art, you could start by looking for examples or codesnippets on codepen.
https://codepen.io/search/pens?q=ascii+art