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ASCII Art: Real-Time ASCII Art Rendering Library

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Check out libcaca[1], a image-to-ASCII library that already available as a mplayer and VLC output.

There's also a demoscene competition where entries can only use text-mode art, TMDC [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca [2] http://tmdc.scene.org/

Wow, ascii + demo scene. Two of my favorite things and I never knew the combo existed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kPMdYIbvI

You might've posted a different video than you thought. At least, there's no ascii art (or video) in that at all.

I remember this one being bundled on the cover CD of one of the Amiga mags 20 years ago. Watching it blew me away at the time :)

Pouet: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=14015 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmly5dpEpvc

Also aalib. Cool demos such as aafire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib

ffmpeg and mplayer support aalib and/or libcaca, so you can watch your favorite movie in ascii art, if you wish so (you can find lot of examples on youtube, though I couldn't fine one worth sharing)

A simple lookup table also works well.

Here I use Unicode 9.0 and True Color support to render images as text using Python: https://github.com/daleroberts/tv

You can test the rendering on your browser using the live demo at: https://art.pixlab.io

Is there a good way to display these in a terminal? The result is a little ugly because it ends up vertically stretched.

I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do this, but this'll take input in the form of the "stretched" ASCII art and double up the characters. My fixed-width font is half as wide as tall, so it works out.