Ascii Webcam

A very common project in Computer Science is converting images to their Ascii equivalent. We did just that in this project but delved into significantly more depth.

Features

• Normalization Methods: What method should we use to determine which ASCII char belongs to each pixel.
• Gradient Generation: How can we order characters in order of density/weight/intensity?
• Webcam: Live ASCII image conversion through your webcam.
• Colors: ASCII Art output through the GUI / terminal can be colored

Installation

gh repo clone rhbuckley/ascii-webcam
pip install -r requirements.txt

python ascii_webcam/gui.py

The GUI looks for fonts in the ./assets folder, so if you decide to run from inside of the ascii_webcam folder, you may need to change the path to the fonts.

Package

I have converted this into a package for local use. If you wish to use this code elsewhere, you may run

source path/to/venv/bin/activate

cd path/to/ascii_webcam

pip install .

What you are doing here is using your project specific venv-interperter, and then installing the ascii_webcam package. This project is not useful enough for me to list this package on PyPi, so for now, it will be local only.

Caveats

• If you would like to use the Ascii Webcam feature, the program automatically selects your default webcam. Want to use another webcam? You can change this in gui.py:270

Inspiration

Check out this article, that goes over some of the methods implemented within this project.