ASCII Art

A simple program that turns images into ASCII-art

Instructions:

1. Upload an image to the img directory.

2. Update configs at the beginning of the script.

• IMAGE_IN_PATH: path to original image
• IMAGE_OUT_PATH: path to generated image
• STRATEGY: strategy to map RGB values to brightness (default = 1)
  • 1 = Average
  • 2 = Luminosity
  • 3 = Lightness
• OUTPUT: whether to create a new image or print to terminal (default = 1)
  • 1 = Image
  • 2 = Terminal
• FONT_SIZE: font size of ASCII characters (default = 8)
• FONT: font family (default = DejaVuSansMono)
• MAX_WIDTH: maximum width allowed for conversion (default = 400)
  • If the image's width is greater than this value, image size is reduced

3. Run the script.

python3 script.py

Example

Original Image:

ASCII Image:

Credits

Inspired by: Robert Heaton's Programming Projects For Advanced Beginners