ASCII Art Generator

⚠️ WARNING: The script has been updated to use Genetic Algorithms for drawing the bright parts of the image. The script is less efficient, slower and produces similar to worse results than before. ⚠️

You might say: "But Tudor... Why?? Why would you do that??? Why would you break a perfectly fine script??" Well, I had to do a Uni project using GAs, so I thought I'd add them here.

The README will be updated soon.

P.S.: U can find the old script if you scrape the repo's history. I promise it's short xd.

Brief description of the algorithm

1. Set width and height of the font
2. Choose a grayscale ramp
3. Upload an image
4. Convert it to grayscale
5. Select tiles (of font's width x height) from the image
   1. Compute the average brightness of each tile
   2. Map the brightnessof each tile to a character from the ramp
   3. Concatenate the characters to form the ASCII art

How 2 use

Requirements:

• Python
• PIL

Run the script with the following command:

python asciiart.py "path/to/image"

Have fun!

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file.