Monscii

Monscii lets media speak. lightweight library that converts videos and images into ASCII in the web.

Why?, to place cool art in the web. Inspired by midjourney's homepage.

Installation

npm install monscii

or just include the script from unpkg

Usage

const monscii = new Monscii();

// For videos
monscii.convertVideoToASCII("video.mp4", {
  width: 250,
  targetElement: document.getElementById("art"),
  sensitivity: 0.5,
  color: true,
  hero: "Dream in color - Regina Belle",
  charSet: "%#*+=-:.
});

// For images
monscii.convertImageToASCII("image.jpg", {
  width: 100,
  color: false
});

Options

• width: Output width (default: 100)
• targetElement: DOM element to append output (default: document.body)
• sensitivity: Brightness sensitivity (default: 1.0)
• color: Enable color output (default: true). Disable for much faster black and white rendering.
• hero: Overlay text (optional)
• fps: Frames per second for video (default: 30)
• playbackSpeed: Video playback speed (default: 1)
• charSet: Character set (Not required)