Blinkenlights/Movies

A Blinkenlights Movie is a simple text file that you can create with any text editor. (or on a wiki). The file starts with a single identifier line and then contains all the images of your movie (frames) one after the other.

Each frame starts with a @ followed by its delay time in milliseconds. @1000 equals 1 second. Following this comes the image.

Every image consists of 8 lines with 18 digits each. A 1 represents a switched-on lamp while a 0 stands for complete darkness.

You may put any number of comment lines between the identification line and the first frame. They must be preceded by a # character.

The end of line my be a CR (ASCII 13), a LF (ASCII 10) or CRLF (ASCII 13 + ASCII 10). We recommend saving your file with LF.

Two frames may be seperated by one or more empty lines.

You can help to create a random movie created by all of us by adding frames below.


 * 1) BlinkenLights Movie 18x8
 * 2) name = undefined
 * 3) description = yet unknown
 * 4) creator = users of the s23-wiki
 * 5) author = collective work
 * 6) email = wiki@s23.org
 * 7) width = 18
 * 8) height = 8
 * 9) loop = no
 * 10) duration = ?

@1000 000000000000000000 000000000000000000 000000000000000000 000000000000000000 000000000000000000 000000000000000000 000000000000000000 000000000000000000

@523 000000000000000000 000111111000111110 000000010000000100 000000110000011110 000001010000000010 000010111101011110 000000000000000000 000000000000000000

Examples: http://blinkenlights.de/gallery/index.en.html

Related: Blinkenlights, Blinkenapplet