Image to ASCII Converter

Table of contents

• Overview
• Examples
• Technologies
• Setup
• Supported Image Types
• Limitations

Overview

This program takes images from the ./imgs/ folder and makes then into coloured ascii text drawings.
There are photos that are already in the ./imgs/ folder and you can choose from these default photos; however, you can also add your own photos to the folder and the newly-added photo can be selected in the program. Additionally, you can select the image to be rendered in grayscale, 4-bit colour, or True Colour.

Examples

Screenshots of Terminal

Mona Lisa

Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Example of the program running

Technologies

• Python 3.8
• Pillow 6.2
  • for image minipulation
• glob
  • for getting images from a folder
• Ansi Escape Sequences
  • for converting RGB colour to colour representable in terminals
  • generating 4-bit sequences from RGB is my own algorithm and allows the requirements to be limited to only Pillow

Setup

To run this project, install the requirements and then run the program:

pip3 install -r requirements
python convert.py

Supported Image Types

• jpg (JPG, jpeg...)
• png
• gif
• bmp
• eps
• icns
• ico
• im
• msp
• pcx
• ppm
• sgi
• tiff

Limitations

• video file types
• multiple frames of gif
• rendering photos in True Colour slows down the terminal until clear is called

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0