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ascii art converter
SHOW HN2012
116points
32comments
#178of 1,677 in 2012
Top 11%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
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2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Execution: 2 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Fun and impressive execution for a simple photo-to-ASCII app
From 3 comments
My friend just learned how to code last week and was already able to make this. I'm impressed by the quality of codecademy
ananddass on HNReally fun! Nice implementation of photo to ascii.
girlvinyl on HNPretty cool. I finally saw a practical use of filepicker.io!
alpb on HN
Requests
Video to ASCII conversion
From 2 comments
what would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...
coldskull on HNDo it! That would be awesome!
brettcvz on HN
Questions
What is the underlying algorithm?
From 1 comment
That's actually quite interesting. I wonder, what is the underlying algorithm? That's amazing for a first-week coder.
alpb on HN
Does it have an API?
From 1 comment
Does it have an API?
chippy on HN
Alternatives named
libcaca
From 2 comments
Cool 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 2 -…
Game_Ender on HNlibcaca to the rescue! http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
CountHackulus on HN
jp2a
From 1 comment
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.
sequoia on HN
aalib / mplayer -vo aa
From 2 comments
Or 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…
a3_nm on HNMplayer has ASCII art output for videos, -vo aa . Can be fun :-)
jordanthoms on HN
ASCII Projektor
From 1 comment
A 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/
l33tbro on HN