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I finally saw a practical use of filepicker.io!",{"value":60,"source":46,"evidence":61},"Twitter Bootstrap",[62],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"4363225","dag11","Oooh, this reminds me of something similar I made when I was 14 or 15. I made a program to do just this, but only with bitmaps. No Twitter Bootstrap or filepicker.io, though ;)…","unknown",{"praise":68,"objections":80,"requests":81,"questions":92,"alternatives":105},[69],{"value":70,"source":46,"evidence":71},"Fun and impressive execution for a simple photo-to-ASCII app",[72,75,79],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},"4362359","My friend just learned how to code last week and was already able to make this. I'm impressed by the quality of codecademy",{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"4362682","girlvinyl","Really fun! Nice implementation of photo to ascii.",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},[],[82],{"value":83,"source":46,"evidence":84},"Video to ASCII conversion",[85,89],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"4362621","coldskull","what would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...",{"id":90,"by":50,"text":91},"4362686","Do it! That would be awesome!",[93,99],{"value":94,"source":46,"evidence":95},"What is the underlying algorithm?",[96],{"id":97,"by":57,"text":98},"4362465","That's actually quite interesting. I wonder, what is the underlying algorithm? That's amazing for a first-week coder.",{"value":100,"source":46,"evidence":101},"Does it have an API?",[102],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":100},"4362641","chippy",[106,117,124,135],{"value":107,"source":46,"evidence":108},"libcaca",[109,113],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"4362475","Game_Ender","Cool web-app, if you like this you should try out libcaca[1] it has even been integrated with mplayer[2]. 1 - http:\u002F\u002Fcaca.zoy.org\u002Fwiki\u002Flibcaca 2 -…",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"4363707","CountHackulus","libcaca to the rescue! http:\u002F\u002Fcaca.zoy.org\u002Fwiki\u002Flibcaca",{"value":118,"source":46,"evidence":119},"jp2a",[120],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"4362589","sequoia","http:\u002F\u002Ffreecode.com\u002Fprojects\u002Fjp2a \u003C I use this in the console sometimes. 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