ascii-renderer

Real-time ASCII art from images and videos.

renderer_demo.mp4

usage

make && ./bin/ascii_renderer file.mp4

Requires ffmpeg and ffprobe for video playback.

ascii_renderer [options] <file>

  -w <int>     fixed width (default: terminal width)
  -n           no color
  -b           background color
  -i           invert brightness
  -l           loop video

make install puts it in ~/.local/bin.

references

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering. https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
Xuemiao Xu, Linling Zhang, and Tien-Tsin Wong. 2010. Structure-based ASCII art. ACM Trans. Graph. 29, 4, Article 52 (July 2010), 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/1778765.1778789
Y. Takeuchi, D. Takafuji, Y. Ito and K. Nakano. 2013. ASCII Art Generation Using the Local Exhaustive Search on the GPU. 2013 First International Symposium on Computing and Networking, Matsuyama, Japan, 2013, pp. 194-200. https://doi.org/10.1109/CANDAR.2013.35, open access: https://www.cs.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/cs/_media/ascii_art-final.pdf