It's a procedural graphics generator showing some text/ascii art and transforming it on the fly. The source says it is a showcase made by a swiss company.
It's by the very excellent artist Andreas Gysin (sort of a portfolio site), he works with ASCII and procedural art. Have a look at the site without the URL parameter on it: https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/
Yes, but it requires support to WebHelices which is on the experimentation phases. There is a shim using WebWings 5.0 but it only works on Chrome Canary, because foxes have legs instead.
A user with that expectation would make sure to turn off javascript. Which probably should have been the default in web browsers, but that particular ship sailed long ago.
Removing the "mode=screensaver" parameter from the URL:
>ertdfgcvb
>Studio for design and code based in Lugano, Switzerland.
>Specialized in procedural graphic design for screen and print; research and development, prototyping and implementation of interactive installations for exhibitions, stages and events.
Brings me back to all the time (and paper) I wasted in the 1970s writing programs to do abstract ASCII art on line printers. Watching those patterns made me feel like a child again!
If you see a bunch of random ascii characters jumping around on the screen, try adjusting your Browser zoom to zoom out a bit. On my 4k screen with Windows providing 300% UI Scaling, I had to zoom Chrome out to 33% to see the wavy ascii text art.
You can catch a little glimpse of his style with the bottom menu on https://web.archive.org/web/20040804050646/http://www.yugop...., but unfortunately the main body of the site (which was the best bit) doesn't work anymore because it was built with Flash.
Some of his current work with https://tha.jp/ still has a great organic fun feel to it.
It saddens me that a browser consumes one and a half CPU cores to render a measly ~300x60 characters at 30 fps. Manipulating even just text in the DOM has so much overhead... That's on Linux with the latest stable Chrome on hardware less than 2 years old.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 67.5 ms ] threadI have no clue what this or why its needed is other than it (creatively?) drains my battery.
Users shouldn't expect a webpage or microsoft word to turn their computer into a helicopter.
Your computer is fine.
Which you should not do of course :)
not that bad. Facebook is way worse.
If you go to the index page it tells you what it is; a studio for design and code based in Switzerland.
https://ertdfgcvb.xyz
>ertdfgcvb
>Studio for design and code based in Lugano, Switzerland.
>Specialized in procedural graphic design for screen and print; research and development, prototyping and implementation of interactive installations for exhibitions, stages and events.
And here is a link with some of their art: https://foundation.app/@ertdfgcvb
There are also some links in their homepage too. The I liked the most was: https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz
https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/sdf/balls
Cool stuff regardless!
They like mnemonics like this.
gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! aasink
https://www.gifcii.fun
ASCII Play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010217 (July 30, 2021 — 158 points, 20 comments)
/me wonders if anyone still knows this reference
http://yawn.io/404
Fun fact: it doesn't have a hard coded bitmap it renders in your system font onto a canvas and reads the pixels out and then converts to text.
All the fun experiments on https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/ remind me of Yugo Nakamura's now-defunct site http://yugop.com/ from back in the early 2000s.
You can catch a little glimpse of his style with the bottom menu on https://web.archive.org/web/20040804050646/http://www.yugop...., but unfortunately the main body of the site (which was the best bit) doesn't work anymore because it was built with Flash.
Some of his current work with https://tha.jp/ still has a great organic fun feel to it.
Nonetheless, cool animation.