I made something similar to this using a combination of 256 color mode and unicode halftone characters for "dithering" between the foreground/background colors.

I made something similar to this using a combination of 256 color mode and unicode halftone characters for "dithering" between the foreground/background colors. https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam Another thing I'd like to try to get a bit more resolution is to perhaps use the braille character set in combination with 256 color mode: https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille Also, some terminals are starting to support 24bit color (iTerm2 nightlies) which could pretty drastically improve the possibilities of terminal based video: https://github.com/frytaz/txtcam/tree/color https://github.com/frytaz/txtcam/tree/color :)