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There'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 hav

There'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 ago
Looking 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 ago
  what would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...
  - brettcvz 14y ago
    Do it! That would be awesome!
  - jbsilva 14y ago
    Try `mplayer -vo aa <video_file>`
    - vhf 14y ago
      -vo caca <video_file> to have it in color. :)
  - qq66 14y ago
    YouTube had this for April Fool's, where you could watch any video in ASCII art.
  - alter8 14y ago
    Add 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 ago
    libcaca to the rescue! http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
  - w00kie 14y ago
    I 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 ago
    telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl starwars done in ascii ;)
    - pixelbath 14y ago
      This is amazing. I was expecting an algorithmic conversion of the video, but...just, wow.
  - w00kie 14y ago
    I 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! :)

brettcvz 14y ago

Looking 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 ago
what would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...
- brettcvz 14y ago
  Do it! That would be awesome!
- jbsilva 14y ago
  Try `mplayer -vo aa <video_file>`
  - vhf 14y ago
    -vo caca <video_file> to have it in color. :)
- qq66 14y ago
  YouTube had this for April Fool's, where you could watch any video in ASCII art.
- alter8 14y ago
  Add 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 ago
  libcaca to the rescue! http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
- w00kie 14y ago
  I 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 ago
  telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl starwars done in ascii ;)
  - pixelbath 14y ago
    This is amazing. I was expecting an algorithmic conversion of the video, but...just, wow.
- w00kie 14y ago
  I 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! :)