Anything to ASCII is a fun and easy-to-use program to transform anything you want into ASCII art: be it images, videos, or even audio tracks, this application can turn them into an ASCII art representation of them.
- Can convert images and videos (and audio tracks, because it's funny).
- Support for a wide range of media types.
- Support for both single-threaded and multi-threaded computations.
- Resizing of the input media based on user settings.
- Now with better memory locality!
- Faster than ever!
- Easy-to-use API
In this update, the application was completely remade, even if some parts are still similar. The biggest new things are mainly:
- New in-memory structures: now, instead of storing the images in 2-dimensional vectors (
Vec<Vec<_>>), they are now stored in a customFlatMatrix, which, as the name suggests, stores the data flatly, bettering memory usage and locality, thus improving speed. - Now the application is available as a library too! (local only for now, will be available on )
Added an API and relevant docs (api_docs.md in the root of the repo). Also fixed a pretty major problem with the audio to ascii conversion.
Big quality of life updates!
- Added logging with different levels (silent, normal and verbose);
- Added a progress bar! Finally!
- Added library docs!
- Now easily available on android by using
anything_to_ascii_android.sh!
Also fixed a bug where any transparent pixels would get omitted from the printing.
Disclaimer: depending on your platform and/or application/website that's displaying the GIFs, they may or may not look horrible. If you aren't satisfied with their quality, you're welcome to try the application yourself! 😉
First of all, install rust. I recommend using rust's tools.
Then install ffmpeg and libavutil.
After that, install it:
cargo install --git https://github.com/confused-ace-noises/anything_to_ascii.git
All done! You're ready to use anything_to_ascii!
First of all, install rust. I recommend using rust's tools.
Then install ffmpeg and libavutil:
sudo apt install libavutil-dev ffmpeg
sudo dnf install ffmpeg-free-devel clang-devel ffmpeg
sudo pacman -Sy ffmpeg libavcodec libavformat libavutil clang
sudo apk ffmpeg-libavutil ffmpeg
if you don't find your distribution here, im sure you're experienced enough to install it yourself!
After that, install it:
cargo install --git https://github.com/confused-ace-noises/anything_to_ascii.git
All done! You're ready to use anything_to_ascii!
First of all, install Termux from your app store of your choice.
Then, run:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/confused-ace-noises/anything_to_ascii/refs/heads/master/anything_to_ascii_android_install.sh > anything_to_ascii_android_install.sh
After that:
chmod +x anything_to_ascii_android_install.sh
And then, finally:
bash anything_to_ascii_android_install.sh
Now, you'll be guided through the installation process. WARNING: It could take a while, especially if you have a slow internet connection.
I have tried desperatly to cross-compile the application for iOS and/or MacOS, but this application unfortunately cannot be cross-compiled. If you're available to distribute a natively-compiled version of the application for iOS and/or MacOS, I'd be happy to collaborate to do so.