Cooler ASCII Spinners?

Question

In a console app, an ascii spinner can be used, like the GUI wait cursor, to indicate that work is being done. A common spinner cycles through these 4 characters: '|', '/', '-', '\'

What are some other cyclical animation sequences to spice up a console application?

Answer 1

Lots of choices with Unicode, including ⌚ and ⌛!

• ← ↖ ↑ ↗ → ↘ ↓ ↙

• ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▁

• ▉▊▋▌▍▎▏▎▍▌▋▊▉

• ▖ ▘ ▝ ▗

• ┤ ┘ ┴ └ ├ ┌ ┬ ┐

• ◢ ◣ ◤ ◥

• ◰ ◳ ◲ ◱

• ◴ ◷ ◶ ◵

• ◐ ◓ ◑ ◒

• ◡◡ ⊙⊙ ◠◠

• ⣾⣽⣻⢿⡿⣟⣯⣷ ⠁⠂⠄⡀⢀⠠⠐⠈ The entire braille block, even in random order http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/braille_patterns/images.htm