Terminal Webcam
Creative
webcam ascii art
SHOW HN2014
110points
32comments
#253of 2,272 in 2014
Top 12%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
7 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.41.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Delightful and impressive ASCII rendering of webcam video
From 3 comments
This is pretty awesome. I'm surprised that you can get such a detailed and responsive image with just different characters. Very cool.
Taylorious on HNThe submitted program, and the mplayer incantations in the threads, are the most delightful things I've seen all day.
a3n on HNYouTube did something like this a few years ago for April Fools. I think on a modern Retina-level display it would look even more impressive due to the higher resolution and…
userbinator on HN
Works in a bare terminal and over ssh
From 2 comments
For the record, that's not pure terminal (it opens up another window). This project works even in a bare vterm. I'd love to see this work over ssh.
pcmonk on HNSweet, I didn't realize that. Sadly, the result flashes on and off and is essentially unusable for me (either in xterm or a TTY on Slackware64 14.0). I can tell it's working,…
pcmonk on HN
Objections
Image is not very clear at night
From 1 comment
If you want to get full performance, use xterm, gnome-terminal and others are very slow. Colorful one uses only 6^3 colors but it looks nice:…
CSDude on HN
Requests
Add chat, encryption, sound
From 1 comment
Please add encryption (on by default), sound, and hook this up to PGP so that it can be skype for hackers (and I don't mean just crackers, I mean in the most general sense) Just…
hardwaresofton on HN
Support for larger frame size or resolution
From 1 comment
I've just given it a go, I look lush. I tried changing the width and height but it came out the same size, I think I will have to play around with it.
NAFV_P on HN
Questions
How to change width and height settings
From 1 comment
I've just given it a go, I look lush. I tried changing the width and height but it came out the same size, I think I will have to play around with it.
NAFV_P on HN
Alternatives named
mplayer with libcaca output
From 2 comments
MPlayer can also do this. Something like this should work as an example: ``` $ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 -fps 15 -vo caca ```
chjj on HNIt will draw an X11 window if there is an X display. Unset DISPLAY and it will render in the terminal: $ DISPLAY= mplayer ... Updated command for clarity (might want to…
chjj on HN
vlc with aa/caca output
From 1 comment
Cool. You can do it also with `vlc` and the `-V aa` (ascii) or `-V caca` (colored ascii) video output in the console. Can play any videos or stream the webcam: ``` vlc -V aa…
mrucci on HN
txtcam
From 2 comments
See also: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam
paulannesley on HNNeat! I made something similar for OSX: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam / Screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/7301 I used halftone characters to do "dithering". Someone forked…
dhotson on HN
hasciicam
From 1 comment
See also hasciicam by Jaromil. https://github.com/jaromil/HasciiCam
jsilence on HN
ascii-chat
From 1 comment
See also https://github.com/zfogg/ascii-chat
zachlatta on HN