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Re:Show HN: turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas) by getToTheChopin on Thursday August 29, 2024 @06:36AM (#41389334)
This tool turns videos into ASCII pixel art. You can use your webcam feed or upload a video, then use the controls to adjust the colors, resolution, text style, etc.

Github repo: https://github.com/collidingScopes/ascii

It's built with javascript / html canvas.

I'll be continuing to work on this, with the goal of improving performance (it can be laggy at high resolutions) and to also allow image input (turn an image into animated ASCII art).

Please let me know of any feedback or suggestions!

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Re:Show HN: turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas) by she46BiOmUerPVj on Thursday August 29, 2024 @07:55AM (#41389872)
It's awesome. I used the image export, is there anyway to export to text with escape codes?
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Re:Show HN: turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas) by getToTheChopin on Thursday August 29, 2024 @10:06AM (#41390966)
Happy to hear it! That's a great suggestion -- I will add that feature. Probably a button that you can press in the GUI, which will then populate a text field at the bottom with the relevant chars / line breaks of that frame.
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