Re:Show HN: Choose Photo. Make Ascii
by brettcvz on Thursday August 09, 2012 @02:40PM
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Looking at the source, looks like he piped it through http://secret-wildwood-1014.herokuapp.com/, which looks like it does basic image to ascii conversions when you give it a url. Not sure if he spun that up, but it's cool in that now the app can be made all in js
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what would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...
Try `mplayer -vo aa <video_file>`
-vo caca <video_file>
Add telnet streaming for extra points, like they did to World Cup 2006: http://ascii-wm.net/doc.php
I wrote a program for playing video in ASCII on an OpenVMS console (VT220 orange text serial console) for a university project.
I played the Matrix dojo fight scene for the final presentation, it was a big success! :)
YouTube had this for April Fool's, where you could watch any video in ASCII art.
Re:Show HN: Choose Photo. Make Ascii
by CountHackulus on Thursday August 09, 2012 @06:41PM
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libcaca to the rescue!
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
Re:Show HN: Choose Photo. Make Ascii
by rosstafarian on Thursday August 09, 2012 @10:10PM
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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
starwars done in ascii ;)
This is amazing. I was expecting an algorithmic conversion of the video, but...just, wow.