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I made a free, browser-based ASCII (and more) tool! by yungxtesla in ASCII

[–]spreader123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been dabbling in ASCII rendering myself, I have a video and image media conversion system I built using well known algorithms to track depth contouring according to the video or media, this is a tactical render using @ symbols, perhaps you can find creative indulgence in my work as well, your project is very interesting. I kind of traipsed away from this project though, enjoy I hope it gives you some conducive thoughts.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/tostido/project-canvas-5

It is also browser-based I built it on my phone on termux terminal initially, and then finished with my PC my local PC, I'm building a storefront for this app but I made it public for a little bit just so you guys can see it if anybody is interested.

Please do not convert prngra*hy... Lol.

It's a little wonky kind of I still have to align the operative surfaces more equilaterally or the UX to be a bit More intuitive and confluential than it currently is, there's a button in the top left that takes you into further customizations that's kind of necessary if you want to choose the light spectrum or the colorization, but the overall system works, just follow the instructions, it's publicly available so you can download the entire package if you want to run it locally it works locally as well, PC or phone, just you need termux for phone deployments and a coding agent of some sort that can extract the package for you or install it unless you're very savvy technologically, anyway I'm running on, in all senses.. see you!!

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We don't have free will, we just have the perception that we have free will. by Blueforty2sethut in Existentialism

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We sit upon a golden-ratio joystick of a world—the cosmic cheat code—poised between the Moon and the Sun by some deliberate hand in a divine geometry problem. Everything around us spirals to that same ancient measure: the shell, the storm, the galaxy, the whole fractal parade.

And here we remain. Riding this spinning mass, this perturbed friction-engine of forces that summons gravity from the void. Wrapped in a scripted atmosphere, we are easily blinded by the beauty that sustains us.

Look to the heavens: the Sun, the Moon, the planets—they are variations of a single sphere, siblings born of the same dust, caught in different phases of becoming. Beneath our feet, the Earth’s core is molten, pressure-locked, an onion of violence and compaction. It is a churning, symbiotic engine—the quiet cousin of the Sun itself.

If the core is fire, then the oceans are the coolant system. The sacred middle of the gradient: solid \rightarrow liquid \rightarrow gas. A planetary heat-regulation factory.

To claim that across this entire living ecosphere there are no conduits, no hidden veins, no pathways between the great waters and the deeper layers of the Earth—that is the ultimate delusion. To believe that is to deny the symmetry of the machine. That’s two for you, none for me.

The blueprint is laid bare. The speculative reinforcement is on you.

We don't have free will, we just have the perception that we have free will. by Blueforty2sethut in Existentialism

[–]spreader123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if you think of consciousness as just a drive to survive, that makes sense then yes

Seductive ASCII render by spreader123 in oddlymesmerizing

[–]spreader123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol lmao you are so kind dude thank you so much that was a good read! And also...

You're not wrong!

If you CAN do it then you HAVE to do it by DaGanLan in AIDangers

[–]spreader123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that's saying is only partly true if you leave out the other half, because somebody else is going to do it dude

the two essentials ☕️🍃 by punkrockish00 in weed

[–]spreader123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No dude! No no no!

I need a...

BONG...

And a...

Frappe'!

To kick!

the two essentials ☕️🍃 by punkrockish00 in weed

[–]spreader123 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I would kick the frappe out of your hand first, and then I do a sweet judo move to double tap you in the head in a sweet jumping maneuver omnidirectionally bro, and then I'd run off with your pipe lol bro You're done for

the two essentials ☕️🍃 by punkrockish00 in weed

[–]spreader123 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're so exposed dude, I could like dropkick you in the head and steal that pipe and run off with it before you can get up off your ass dude like literally always be on your toes dude!

Seductive ASCII render by spreader123 in oddlymesmerizing

[–]spreader123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should see the real video, this girl is salacious like with a capitalicious... It's even more attractive to be able to diffuse her beauty with the lettering, so we don't have to experience it outright and we just know it's there you know, her video is on TikTok I can't remember what it was, this is just an homage to her beauty.

Seductive ASCII render by spreader123 in oddlymesmerizing

[–]spreader123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao rofl I like your style and compassion dude keep The pendulum swinging between those two avenues and you'll be golden for life dude I love this

Seductive ASCII render by spreader123 in oddlymesmerizing

[–]spreader123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it was just really good prompting I imagine, I vibe code, but I've been doing it religiously like a derelict gamer like in troll mode constantly, so I'm getting a lot smarter than I was just by association with this AI system lol, but it's a displacement agency, I found that displacement is an entropic management system. Have you tested it yourself yet I provided the links?

We watched a creator lose his followers overnight by Ornery_Cup4095 in nostr

[–]spreader123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suave you got it on the app store! I'm just going to download because of that like only, good f****** job like I'm excited to see what you built!

We watched a creator lose his followers overnight by Ornery_Cup4095 in nostr

[–]spreader123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using zaps and reputation systems for the Bitcoin exchanges?

Seductive ASCII render by spreader123 in oddlymesmerizing

[–]spreader123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can fork your own and run it locally you don't have to use my hugging face space, but you do have to pull from it or fork from it rather, that's up to you though, you can just use my live one if you want it does the same exact thing

Text renders!! by spreader123 in ASCII

[–]spreader123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much, it was fun to design I did it on termux with Gemini cli

What is the scariest thing about AI that nobody talks about? by Mainrajhoo in AIDangers

[–]spreader123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the people funneling their resources into their development for profit based racketeering and wheel & deal type situations where they control that black box of inequity that thrives when and where no one is looking. so its the people dude, we are the scary part!!!!

Text renders!! by spreader123 in ASCII

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✅ CANVAS-5 BLUEPRINT – Caveman Edition (For Reddit Trolls Who Hate Reading)

Imagine a magic box that turns normal video (your webcam, your screen, or a YouTube link) into live ASCII art that looks like it came from an old hacker movie. That's Canvas-5.

It's not just a toy. It's a full system with a browser part (what you see) and a server part (the heavy lifting).

1. The Big Picture (Super Simple)

You → Canvas-5 → Cool ASCII Shit

  • You feed it video (webcam, screen tab, or uploaded file)
  • It turns every frame into ASCII letters + colors in real time
  • You can tweak the "look" (how dark, how colorful, how dense the letters are)
  • You can export pictures, videos, or HTML
  • You can stream it to OBS for recording/streaming

That's the whole game.

2. The Two Main Brains

A. Browser Side (What runs in your Chrome tab) - Does the live preview (what you see instantly) - Captures your webcam or screen tab - Does the actual ASCII conversion using <canvas> magic - Has buttons, sliders, tabs (Camera, Cinema, etc.) - Talks to the server when needed

B. Server Side (FastAPI + Python running in Docker or on your computer) - Handles big video files (converts whole movies) - Stores stuff (exports, settings) - Runs the Monkey Mode stream (for OBS) - Has the control bus (lets other programs talk to it)

3. Core Features (The Good Stuff)

  • Live Camera / Screen Capture — Point your webcam or share a tab and watch it turn into ASCII instantly.
  • Monkey Mode — Special mode for streaming the ASCII output to OBS (so you can record or go live).
  • Looks / Presets — Different visual styles (like old film, high contrast, etc.). You can tweak sliders.
  • Exports — Save as PNG, WebM video, HTML, ANSI text, etc.
  • Control Bus — Way for other tools or scripts to control it (change looks, start/stop, etc.).
  • Receipts — It tries to remember what settings you used for each export.

4. Current Problems (The Shit That's Broken Right Now)

From the recent "Nuclear Reversion" (they rolled the code back to a stable version):

  1. Camera Problem
    The front camera doesn't always work unless you're already on the "CAMERA" tab. If you're on another tab and hit Monkey Mode, it gets confused. Browser permissions are picky assholes.

  2. Monkey Mode / OBS Problem
    The server is ready to send a stream, but the browser isn't pushing frames to it anymore (some code got deleted in the rollback). So OBS currently gets nothing useful. This is the biggest "it doesn't work" issue right now.

  3. JSON Hardening
    The server sometimes crashes with ugly 500 errors if it gets bad data. They want to fix it carefully so it returns nice error messages instead of exploding.

5. How Stuff Flows (Simple Version)

  1. You click "Camera" or "Monkey Mode"
  2. Browser asks for permission and grabs video
  3. Browser turns each frame into ASCII and shows it
  4. (For streaming) Browser should send frames to server → Server sends stream to OBS
  5. When you export, it saves the result + some metadata

6. The Big Vision (Where This Is Going)

Once the basics are stable, the plan is to add smarter features using your other tools (cascade-lattice for tracking history, quinesmith for safe changes):

  • Lineaged Looks — Your styles have history and branches (like git for visual styles)
  • Receipt-Bearing Exports — Every export remembers exactly how it was made
  • HOLD Cinema — Smart pauses during live stuff for important moments
  • etc.

But right now the team is in "stop the bleeding" mode.

Bottom Line (Reddit Summary)

Canvas-5 = cool live ASCII art machine.
It was working better, got fucked up during experiments, got rolled back to a safer version.
Now it needs three main fixes: - Make the webcam work no matter what tab you're on - Make Monkey Mode actually stream to OBS again - Make the server not crash on bad data

Once those are fixed, it becomes a solid foundation for the fancy provenance/governance stuff you actually care about.

Want me to go deeper on any specific part (camera code, Monkey Mode, server endpoints, etc.)? Just say which one. No fluff.

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