image-ascii-art

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2 years ago

Convert image to ascii art

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image-ascii-art

Description

This is a simple web package that converts an input image to ascii art.

🚀🚀🚀 The package is published on npm 🚀🚀

It works on desktop and mobile as well, there is one demo you can find at the link below:

🚀🚀 Image Ascii Art 🚀🚀

The source code of the demo is available on GitHub:

Image Ascii Art

This demo show you how to load a default image and how to load an image from your computer to convert it to ascii art.

Video Stream version

I also made a video stream version.

🚀🚀 Video Ascii Webcam 🚀🚀

🚀🚀 Video Ascii Player 🚀🚀

The source code of the examples is available on GitHub:

Screenshots

Install packages

You can install it by typing the following command in your terminal:

npm install image-ascii-art

yarn add image-ascii-art

Usage

To use the package, you need to import it into your project:

import {ImageAscii} from "image-ascii-art";

Then you can create use the Component like this in Typescript/JavaScript:

<ImageAscii
    image={image!}
    parentRef={parentRef}
    artType={ArtTypeEnum.ASCII_COLOR_BG_IMAGE}
    charsPerLine={charsPerLine}
    charsPerColumn={charsPerColumn}
    fontColor={'white'}
    backgroundColor={'black'}
/>

You can also pass a pre tag reference to the component, so it can be used to get the ASCII text:

<ImageAscii
    image={image!}
    parentRef={parentRef}
    artType={ArtTypeEnum.ASCII_COLOR_BG_IMAGE}
    charsPerLine={charsPerLine}
    charsPerColumn={charsPerColumn}
    fontColor={'white'}
    backgroundColor={'black'}
    preTagRef={preTagRef}
/>

To use the component, you need to pass the following props:

image - The input HTMLImageElement.
parentRef - The reference of the parent element, to fit the ascii art in it.
artType - The type of the ascii art, you can choose between ASCII, ASCII_COLOR and ASCII_COLOR_BG_IMAGE.
charsPerLine - The number of characters per line.
charsPerColumn - The number of characters per column.
fontColor - The color of the font.
backgroundColor - The color of the background.
preTagRef - The reference of the pre tag, to get the ascii art text.

The parentRef is used to fit the ascii art in the parent element, so you need to pass the reference of the parent element like a div, you can check the example to see how to use it.

Warning
Be careful when using this package, the image must be loaded before enabling the Image Ascii component, otherwise it will not work. If you want to set the ascii art with a correct aspect ratio, follow the example at the link below: Image Ascii Art

The artType is used to choose the type of the ascii art, you can choose between ASCII, ASCII_COLOR and ASCII_COLOR_BG_IMAGE.

ASCII - The ascii art will be defined only by two colors the font color and the background color. (which you can set with the props fontColor and backgroundColor).
ASCII_COLOR - The ascii art will be printed with each character having the color of the pixel it represents (it is an extensive mode, you should use the ASCII_COLOR_BG_IMAGE mode instead).
ASCII_COLOR_BG_IMAGE - The ascii art will be printed with color using the original image as background for the color of the characters, you should use this mode if you want good performance instead of the ASCII_COLOR mode.