Ertdfgcvb

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.

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

This reminds me a little of the 404 page I made back in university (except it actually looks nice!)

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.

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.

If you like animated ASCII art then I'm sure you'll like this:

https://www.gifcii.fun

Fun fact: if you have gstreamer installed, you can use a pipeline like aasink to output any video as ascii-art. For example:

gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! aasink

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!

This has demo scene written all over it, in the best possible way.

It's great to see simple non-productized playfulness on the internet again.

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.

This domain name looks like someone pressed their ubikey to pick the name.

Pretty cool!

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

Reminds me of the BB demo from aalib.

Welcome, to Ertdfgcvb. This is Ertdfgcvb. The unattainable is UNKNOWN at Ertdfgcvb!

/me wonders if anyone still knows this reference

Too cool. Suddenly, I want to play nethack.

Discussions on similar submissions:

ASCII Play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010217 (July 30, 2021 — 158 points, 20 comments)

What's it about?

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.

Nonetheless, cool animation.

Lush and deep. It's got scifi power.

is the font iosevka? very cool

Is what?

Be careful this site makes your computer fans scream and your devices run hot.

I have no clue what this or why its needed is other than it (creatively?) drains my battery.