Animated ASCII

Animated ASCII is an npm package that provides a component to display animated ASCII art in a React application. You can make the animation at https://animated-ascii.com.

Installation

To install the package, use the following command:

npm install animated-ascii

Usage

Below is an example of how to use the AsciiAnimation component in your React application.

import React from 'react';
import { AsciiAnimation } from 'animated-ascii';
import ballerina from './ballerina.json'; // Created on animated-ascii.com

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <AsciiAnimation
        height={500} // Height of the animation container
        animation={ballerina} // Animation data
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Component Props

AsciiAnimation

• color (string, optional): The override color for ASCII characters if animationColors is not provided. Default is undefined, if the animation does not have dynamic color it is #000.
• height (number, required): The height of the animation container in pixels.
• animation (object, required): The animation data object containing:
  • animation (string, required): Base64 encoded string of the animation frames.
  • animationColors (string, optional): Base64 encoded string of the colors for each character in the frames.
  • frameRate (number, required): The frame rate of the animation in frames per second.

Example Animation Data

You can easily create an animation at animated-ascii.com. The animation object should contain the Base64 encoded strings of your animation frames and optional colors. You can use tools like pako to compress and encode your data.

const animation = {
  animation: 'BASE64_ENCODED_ANIMATION_FRAMES',
  animationColors: 'BASE64_ENCODED_ANIMATION_COLORS', // Optional
  frameRate: 24, // Frames per second
};

Notes

• Ensure that the height prop is set appropriately to fit your animation frames.
• If animationColors is provided, it should be an array of Base64 encoded strings matching the length of the animation frames.

For more details and examples, please refer to the source code and additional documentation.