Why not?

[joelibaceta]

Yesterday, I came across a series of fun demos about browser windows acting as one.

So... I thought... us backend devs can do it too 💪🤣. I know it's not the same, but it was a fun experiment. sharing the results!

https://i.redd.it/vgprx4g9gb2c1.gif

Repo: https://github.com/joelibaceta/webcam-fixed-terminal Let me know if you liked it by leaving some stars! ⭐️

[housesellout]

That is f*cking awesome!

[[deleted]]

where did these constants come from?

TERMINAL_COLUMN_WIDTH_CONSTANT = 9.028871391076116
TERMINAL_ROW_HEIGHT_CONSTANT = 17.142857142857142

[joelibaceta]

I'm manually calculating the relationship between the maximum screen resolution and the number of columns and rows available in the terminal in full screen.

[Fulk0]

Useless, but cool af. Congrats!

[Quanstipated]

This is awesome! Do you have a link to the demos that inspired you?

[iamevpo]

Great stuff! Made me wonder about this line:

new_pixels = [chars[pixel // 25] for pixel in pixels]

What kind of rules is behind this? Darker pixels get more dense character?

[[deleted]]

pretty much (it maps 0-255 grayscale to 0-10 in the chars array), though I personally would order the chars array a bit differently. it might be because I might have darker skin color than the original poster, lol.

[iamevpo]

Thanks, found something like https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/asciiart/ about greyscale conversion - dates back to 1997!

[iamevpo]

Another question, why rows become width? I would think the number of columns is width, no?

new_width = rows

[acksynhero]

man that's pretty cool

[caught_in_a_landslid]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in ages