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Re:Ascii art – dead or alive? by arachnophobe on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:22AM (#16412225)
I've been messing around with converting videos to ASCII for a side project - it's been a fun learning experience. Obviously I don't think ASCII art's going any where...

https://youtu.be/oRdrMM20keI

Re:Ascii art – dead or alive? by m_t on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:32AM (#16412254)
Do you know about libcaca? http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
Re:Ascii art – dead or alive? by arachnophobe on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:52AM (#16412317)
I didn't - I'd started off converting the videos to 8-bit colouring and in the process was experimenting with pixelisation and went off on a fairly extreme bit of a tangent.

https://youtu.be/MZ1fZWa2I8w