mingkuai-ascii

A simple typewriter-effect image generator. Named after Mingkuai Chinese Typewriter.

Requirements

• Python 3.?
• PIL

Usage

• genFont.py: reads a specified font and stores images of characters in assets\pic\
• render.py inputTextName outputImageName: renders an image, storing into outputImageName.png

Features

• despites the random effects cast on the glyphs, same characters are rendered the same
• alter the variables (e.g. dim, ful, defaultRandSeed) to get different results

Samples

Code	Result
dim=0.01 ful=0.99
dim=0.01 ful=0.99 sqrt
dim=0.50 ful=0.90 sqrt

• here sqrt stands for newPixel=tuple(int(i*math.sqrt(coeffW*coeffH)) for i in imagePixel); you'll have to read line 31-50 of render.py to understand its meaning

References

• Font used for demonstration purposes: belluzj/fantasque-sans
• Text used for demonstration purposes: Typewriter from Wikipedia, (revision 1190208273)