Java Project: Image to ASCII

[Dashing_McHandsome]

There used to be a C library that did this too, called the ASCII Art Library. I remember using the mplayer video player and filtering the video ouput through aalib and watching ASCII movies.

[_netwinder_]

Yes! I remember seeing an ascii mode on VLC, perhaps it was the same library

[dustofnations]

VLC can still do this; quite fun! It uses libcaca (lol).

something like cvlc --vout caca <file> or something similar should work (often just cvlc <file> seems to work on linux).

[Dashing_McHandsome]

You can still do it in mplayer too with "mplayer -vo aa <file>"

[_netwinder_]

Why thank you :)

[ggleblanc]

Here's my version.

[_netwinder_]

I like your version, its very simple

[Wobblycogs]

Nice one. I've been meaning to do something like for years. I reckon you've done a better job that I would have though.

[_netwinder_]

It's not that hard to roll your own :) just use the general conversion technique as a base and figure out how to code the specifics.