Towers and Towers
Growing towers sprouting from the bottom of the screen. Click here to view the animation...
The Scroll Art Museum
Scroll art lets beginner programmers turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art.
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PyTexas 2024 Talk: 20 GOTO 10
Al Sweigart discusses scroll art at the PyTexas 2024 Conference in Austin.
In and Out
Traveling lines come in and out from the sides. Click here to view the animation...
Any Size Diagonal Maze
Random "mazes" created by diagonal lines of various sizes. Click here to view the animation...
Skybursts
Fireworks-like bursts spray downwards. Click here to view the animation...
Stripeout
Vertical stripe wipes. Click here to view the animation...
Forth and Back
A stripe knocking side to side, back and forth, against an increasing chaotic background. Click here to view the animation...
Moire
Mesmerizing moiré patterns created from the Bresenham circle algorithm. Click here to view the animation...
Twists
Vertical columns that twist around each other. Click here to view the animation...
Skulls and Hearts
A parallax experiment with scroll art with ASCII art skulls and hearts. Click here to view the animation...
Torn Textile
A shredded design reminiscent of a ship's tattered sails. Click here to view the animation...
PAC Wall
Square tiles of directional flow, inspired by the design of the wall of the Performing Arts Center in New York. Click here to view the animation...
Vertical Struts
Vertical lines that appear like beams across floors of an under-construction skyscraper. Click here to view the animation...
Triangle Hall
Diagonal lines spawning from their horizontally moving predecessors, creating a hallway effect of triangular passages. Click here to view the animation...
Diagonal Sweep
A basic left-to-right or right-to-left sweep transition animation. Click here to view the animation...
Forbidden Zone
A music video performance made from several scroll art pieces.
Inchworm
A little inchworm that moves across the screen. Click here to view the animation...
Thorns
A rapid pattern that looks like thorns or audio waves. Click here to view the animation...
Hex Portals
Hexagon-shaped portals against a scratchy background. Click here to view the animation...
Snail Trail
Snails gliding across the screen. Click here to view the animation...
Orbital Travels
A collection of random points moving in sine waves. Click here to view the animation...
Starfield on the Apple IIe
The term "scroll art" is new but these text-based programs don't require modern computers. Here is a video of the Starfield program running on a 1983 Apple IIe.
Connected Pipes
Random squiggles that form a sort of connected pipework. There are some isolated sections but no dead ends. Click here to view the animation...
Diamond Sky
A star- and diamond-filled sky. Click here to view the animation...
Full of Squares
Squares of various sizes. Click here to view the animation...
Proton Stream
Lightning streams energetically jittering, like a Ghostbuster's proton pack. Click here to view the animation...
Wallpaper
The standard wallpaper scroll art, including several designs and tessellations. Click here to view the animation...
Tri Grid Scaffolding
A triangular grid in cyclic densities. Click here to view the animation...
Striped Triangles
Striped triangles in cyclic densities. Click here to view the animation...
Spike
A simple spike pattern. Click here to view the animation...
Math Function
Bitmap patterns based on Cartesian coordinate inputs to a math function. Click here to view the animation...
Toggler
Triangular patterns toggled between two characters, with variants. Click here to view the animation...
Matrix Screensaver
Hacker-themed trails of ones and zeros. Click here to view the animation...
Diagonal Maze
The classic Commodore 64 pattern. Click here to view the animation...
Ducklings
Cute combinatorial explosion of ASCII art ducks. Click here to view the animation...
Sine Message
Text moving in a sine wave pattern. Click here to view the animation...
Cube Wall
Random cube wallpaper. Click here to view the animation...
Zig-zag
A simple back and forth animation. Click here to view the animation...
Starfield
Asterisks in cycles of density. Click here to view the animation...