![]() ![]() So when I noticed this article on hackaday I thought, wow I could learn something from this, but the info is not very well presented by this article. ![]() Very simple, it worked, but I always felt it could be done more elegantly. PS: some time ago I’ve attempted to convert images into PETSCII (Commodore ASCII) and ran into this problem, I’ve ended up in comparing the matching pixels of the 8×8 grid of the image with the 8×8 pixels of the font, making up a table of the number of matching pixels for each character and then picking the first from that table that has the highest score. If they know about some decent description about the algortithms involved in converting images into ASCII (or any other kind of charset) please let us all know. Please hackaday, put more effort into this article, I think it deserves it!įor any other commenters. Because since the internet took off people find monkeys scratching their but and falling off a tree very interesting also… I don’t care in installing every app someone else mentions as interesting. Which is a pitty, as the project seems promissing. The hackaday article (not the project) to me feels like: “here is an app and here is some code find out for yourself, we from hackaday don’t want to spend any time on it, we don’t care about algotithms or technical choices the programmer made…” Hmmm… an article about a link to a github project page, which does not contain any information other then the sourcecode and a link to google play. Posted in Cellphone Hacks Tagged ansi, art, ASCII, retro, retrocomputing Post navigation Want to know more about ASCII art? Check out Al’s history of ASCII art, or this talk about both ASCII and ANSI creations. AsciiCam is also a good example for neophyte Android programmers. The first Github commits were six years ago, and is still working - the most recent commits were made only a few days back. If you just want to run the software, it’s available through the Google Play Store. You can download the full source code from Github. The great thing about AsciiCam is the fact that it is open source. You can also choose from black text on a white background or white text on black. Users can select from a 16 color palette and full 24 bit color. Just launch it and you’re greeted with an ASCII preview of the camera image. AsciiCam lets you use your Android phone’s camera to create ASCII images. Why not use them to create more great ASCII art? That’s exactly what did with AsciiCam. These days we’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets. They’ve been a hacker standby since the 1960’s. Pictures made form characters, printed on an old-fashioned line printer. We admit it, we have a nostalgic soft spot for ASCII Art. ![]()
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