=pod

=for advent_year 2008

=for advent_day 25

=for advent_title Excited elfs

=cut

eq 'Animated Sprites' :-P

=pod

=for advent_author Jerrad Pierce

<div style="width:987px"><div style="float:left; width:360px;"> As frequent
readers of the calendar may have noticed, I'm a sucker for P<2005-25|text-art>
and "P<2007-18|ANSI-mation>," so it's no surprise I bring you more text toys
today. The author of M<Term::Animation>, a library which provides facilities
for sprite-based animation. With it he has produced "screensavers" like this
A<http://www.robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/|weather monitor> &amp;
A<http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/html/|aquarium>, although one
could produce all sorts of games too, or vingettes like our example:</div>
<img src="mod25.png" style="padding-left: 1em">
<img src="mod25b.png" style="position:relative; top: -192px; clear: both"></div>

=sourcedcode mod25.pl

=head3 See Also

M<Image::ANSIMation> - Unfortunately incompatble with M<Term::Animation>.