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I don't consider auto generated ASCII figures (from aalib or libcaca or similar) to be art. To me, art implies there is an artist behind the work of art or the technique used to generate it. Real artists do their ASCII art 7 bits at a time.
Turn up the contrast so we can see it!
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I wonder which algorithm you're using? From very quick testing, it looks like you're picking characters to represent various grayscale values, but I'm not sure that you're taking the shape of the characters into account like other converters do.
I used a combination of Tab Atkins' and the MooTools ASCII art ( https://github.com/khrome/MooAsciiArt.js ) algorithms. The four ASCII options came from those two libraries, as well (I played around with the values on various pictures until I found ones that I thought worked the best). You can also take a look at the Asciify and AsciiCharacter classes in the CoffeeScript file ( https://github.com/zachwill/asciifi/blo…
Compare http://paste.fulltxt.net/:gh (your output) with http://paste.fulltxt.net/h-,:wiS (aalib's output). This probably isn't the best choice of image, but you can still see how aalib approximates the edges of the drawing with all sort of characters.
Haha, nice — I'm the developer if anyone has any questions (it's using a canvas element to convert images/data URIs to ASCII art). Also, here's a link to the Github repo: https://github.com/zachwill/asciifi
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I used a combination of Tab Atkins' and the MooTools ASCII art ( https://github.com/khrome/MooAsciiArt.js ) algorithms. The four ASCII options came from those two libraries, as well (I played around with the values on various pictures until I found ones that I thought worked the best). You can also take a look at the Asciify and AsciiCharacter classes in the CoffeeScript file ( https://github.com/zachwill/asciifi/blo…
OK, and it seems that those algorithms only take the grayscale into account. Compare http://paste.fulltxt.net/:gh (your output) with http://paste.fulltxt.net/h-,:wiS (aalib's output). This probably isn't the best choice of image, but you can still see how aalib approximates the edges of the drawing with all sort of characters.
Wonder if that makes any sense for video, though?
It is not very often you hear that song out in the wild. Nice. For anyone interested it is called "fetts vette"