# peacock

an entry for the Demosplash 2025 Freestyle ASCII/ANSI Compo

by Kirsten Taing

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Original peacock ascii art was created by me, years ago, probably using vim.
It lives on [my website](meylingtaing.com).

I recently created an animated version of it dancing, using
[durdraw](https://durdraw.org/).

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## Files

### peacock.dur

The source durdraw file. It uses 16 colors so the colors
you have configured in your terminal will determine how this peacock is
colored. The canvas size is 45x15 characters.

### peacock.webm

A video file containing the animation. I created this file in the simplest way
I knew possible, by running the animation directly in durdraw and using the
Screen Record tool in my screenshot program.

### peacock.ans

An ANSI file, which is a bit strange considering this only uses ascii
characters, but it includes all the color escape codes. I honestly know nothing
about ANSI, but I found that I could view all the frames, colored, using

    less -R peacock.ans

This file was generated using durdraw.

### all_peacock_frames.txt

A plain text file that includes all of the frames, obviously uncolored. I
generated this by running the ANSI file through
[ansi2txt](https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/ansi2txt.1.html)

### README.txt

The file you're apparently reading right now. Thank you!