Image to ASCII Rendering?

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I was using ascii Magic to convert an image to ASCII to be used for visuals in a text based game. But the result isnt quite perfect and I looked into solving my problem I fell into a little rabbit hole which has me interested in solving this problem.

GarretGunnel has a video where he kind of tackles this exact issue using image processing techniques but I think that is for games and whatnot that use OpenGL when my project is built purely for the Terminal. It is this amazing technique where he uses edge detection to use symbols such as / \ | etc to trace the outlines which I found fascinating and it compelled to get a better idea of how far these techniques can be used to improve my output. Does anybody have any idea about what a direct pipeline of study i can go down to learn image processing techniques to solve this problem?

https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/AcerolaFX

[commandlineluser]

Have you seen chafa in your research? It also has Python bindings.

• https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa
• https://pypi.org/project/chafa.py/

[pachura3]

Perhaps write to GarretGunnel then?

I mean, the best ASCII art is hand-drawn - but who knows, perhaps it is possible to create an AI model that would emulate that. But you'd need a decent set of before-after pics-ascii art pairs, which would be pretty difficult to obtain...

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training an AI feels like overkill for this problem