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ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art

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268 points zayat | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 10:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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SlowTao ◴[02 Jul 25 21:41 UTC] No.44449154[source]▶
While I love the ASCII art, yeah... thats not how the moon phase works. At half moon it should be exactly half occluded, so like it was cut in half, not just a weird circle cut out.

This is something that partially bothered me about GTA San Andreas on Ps2. They used the same trick as here but I would give them a pass because it was just a small detail on a large simulation on an already very limited system.

There are some great bones here on the site, just need to tweak the shadow and it can be a 10 out of 10.

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1. echelon ◴[02 Jul 25 22:30 UTC] No.44449528[source]▶
That's a great suggestion for a more accurate render, but I want the author to know that I still think they did an amazing job. It's fun and it looks great. (Your feedback was really constructive, and I don't think the author will misinterpret it. Some of the other commenters here, on the other hand...)

I have two additional feature requests:

1. Persistent URLs (replaceState)

2. Lunar eclipses

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2. SlowTao ◴[03 Jul 25 00:59 UTC] No.44450534[source]▶
Absolutely they did a fantastic job, already a hundred times better than any web stuff I have ever done.