This tool turns videos into ASCII pixel art. You can use your webcam feed or upload a video, then use the controls to adjust the colors, resolution, text style, etc.<p>Github repo: <a href="https://github.com/collidingScopes/ascii">https://github.com/collidingScopes/ascii</a><p>It's built with javascript / html canvas.<p>I'll be continuing to work on this, with the goal of improving performance (it can be laggy at high resolutions) and to also allow image input (turn an image into animated ASCII art).<p>Please let me know of any feedback or suggestions!
This reminds me of libcaca [1], which anyone interested in this should check out. It's integrated in various tools, including ffmpeg, mpv, and of course VLC (Sam Hocevar, who wrote libcaca, was also a key VLC contributor at its beginnings).<p>The biggest difference I see (apart from the used programing language) is that libcaca outputs <i>colored</i> ascii art.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca</a>
There's a version of "Never Gonna Give You Up" in ASCII art. Which means if you can access a .bashrc or something similar, you can rick roll them in their terminal on startup.<p>Found it: <a href="https://github.com/keroserene/rickrollrc">https://github.com/keroserene/rickrollrc</a>
Is there anything like this where it's only coloring the text and not the background of the font? Hoping to find something like ascii-gen [0,1] but for video<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/seatedro/asciigen">https://github.com/seatedro/asciigen</a>
[1] <a href="https://x.com/seatedro/status/1828414268707946506" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/seatedro/status/1828414268707946506</a>
I thought the point of ASCII art was that it could be exported into Notepad. is the website mainly for aesthetics/art as opposed to inserting diagrams into READMEs now?