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Show HN: Choose Photo. Make Ascii
- ananddass 14y agoMy friend just learned how to code last week and was already able to make this. I'm impressed by the quality of codecademy
- alpb 14y agoThat's actually quite interesting. I wonder, what is the underlying algorithm? That's amazing for a first-week coder.
- iansinke 14y agoThere's probably a lot of complicated ways of doing this, but to keep it simple you could probably just downscale the image, convert to black and white, and have an array which maps lightness ranges to ascii characters
- brettcvz 14y agoLooking at the source, looks like he piped it through http://secret-wildwood-1014.herokuapp.com/ http://secret-wildwood-1014.herokuapp.com/, which looks like it does basic image to ascii conversions when you give it a url. Not sure if he spun that up, but it's cool in that now the app can be made all in js
- coldskull 14y agowhat would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...
- brettcvz 14y agoDo it! That would be awesome!
- jbsilva 14y agoTry `mplayer -vo aa <video_file>`
- vhf 14y ago-vo caca <video_file> to have it in color. :)
- qq66 14y agoYouTube had this for April Fool's, where you could watch any video in ASCII art.
- alter8 14y agoAdd telnet streaming for extra points, like they did to World Cup 2006: http://ascii-wm.net/doc.php http://ascii-wm.net/doc.php
- CountHackulus 14y agolibcaca to the rescue! http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
- w00kie 14y agoI wrote a program for playing video in ASCII on an OpenVMS console (VT220 orange text serial console) for a university project. I played the Matrix dojo fight scene for the final presentation, it was a big success! :)
- rosstafarian 14y agotelnet towel.blinkenlights.nl starwars done in ascii ;)
- pixelbath 14y agoThis is amazing. I was expecting an algorithmic conversion of the video, but...just, wow.
- w00kie 14y agoI wrote a program for playing video in ASCII on an OpenVMS console (VT220 orange text serial console) for a university project. I played the Matrix dojo fight scene for the final presentation, it was a big success! :)
- alpb 14y agoPretty cool. I finally saw a practical use of filepicker.io!
- Game_Ender 14y agoCool web-app, if you like this you should try out libcaca[1] it has even been integrated with mplayer[2]. 1 - http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP5KvaWz6Dg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP5KvaWz6Dg
- a3_nm 14y agoOr aalib <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib>, which I my opinion gives better results than libcaca for monochrome images. You might also enjoy their demo program bb (sudo apt-get install bb).
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- sequoia 14y agohttp://freecode.com/projects/jp2a http://freecode.com/projects/jp2a < I use this in the console sometimes. Nice just to check the orientation of a photo or something, then e.g. rotate w/convert.
- csl 14y agoA friendly note: The official homepage is at http://csl.sublevel3.org/jp2a/ http://csl.sublevel3.org/jp2a/
- MIT_Hacker 14y agoI remember making a python script in high school that did this same thing. If only FilePicker had existed then!
- chippy 14y agoDoes it have an API?
- girlvinyl 14y agoReally fun! Nice implementation of photo to ascii.
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- gyaresu 14y agop.p.s jp2a FTW. and well der. Mplayer with ascii rendering. Pft. Of course. But you knew that right?
- crasshopper 14y agoI flipped out the first time I saw mplayer ascii rendering. I'm thinking of projecting Rashomon ASCII-version at an art show sometime. Or any classic film with deeply emotional topics, intricate facial expressions, reduced to 7-bit projections.
- sprobertson 14y agoPut MIT in URL. Get clicks.
- spec_laconic 14y agoPerl module for such: http://search.cpan.org/~asavige/Acme-EyeDrops-1.60/lib/Acme/EyeDrops.pm http://search.cpan.org/~asavige/Acme-EyeDrops-1.60/lib/Acme/...
- dag11 14y agoOooh, this reminds me of something similar I made when I was 14 or 15. I made a program to do just this, but only with bitmaps. No Twitter Bootstrap or filepicker.io, though ;) Web interface: http://minipenguin.com/bta/ http://minipenguin.com/bta/ Standalone source code: http://minipenguin.com/bta/bta.c http://minipenguin.com/bta/bta.c
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- cek 14y agoThis is fun. I made one of my '88 911: http://kindel.com/porsche/Ascii http://kindel.com/porsche/Ascii
- l33tbro 14y agoA bit of oneupmanship: ASCII projektor, which was an app from a few years ago that allowed you to create ASCII from video. http://earthlingsoft.net/ASCII%20Projektor/ http://earthlingsoft.net/ASCII%20Projektor/
- crasshopper 14y agohttp://www.floodgap.com/software/ppmascii/ppmascii.txt http://www.floodgap.com/software/ppmascii/ppmascii.txt
- jordanthoms 14y agoMplayer has ASCII art output for videos, -vo aa . Can be fun :-)
- jpswade 14y agohttp://labs.phurix.net/posts/converting-your-logo-to-ascii-art http://labs.phurix.net/posts/converting-your-logo-to-ascii-a...