Little Sinatra app to randomly generate ASCII-art from owls, based on images found via Bing's image search API.
Run by running
ruby controller.rb
Or placing it in your Rack setup.
Call http://YOUR-SERVER/random/100 where the 100 refers to the maximum size.
This will give you a JSON string with the original URL and the resulting 'image' of html entities for the different shades of gray.
{
original: 'http://url-to-original/image.jpg',
image: '...'
}
It is recommended to put the image in a <pre> block or use a monospaced font.