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.
# BlinkenLights Movie 18x8 # name = undefined # description = yet unknown # creator = users of the s23-wiki # author = collective work # email = wiki@s23.org # width = 18 # height = 8 # loop = no # 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