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aarty: A simple CLI tool to convert images to ASCII art with Rust 🦀

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Install

from crates.io
```
cargo install aarty
```
From aur:
```
yay -S aarty
```

Options and arguments

aarty --help

A simple CLI tool to convert the images to ASCII art

Usage: aarty [OPTIONS] <IMAGE>

Arguments:
  <IMAGE>
          The image to convert to ASCII art

Options:
  -m, --mode <MODE>
          The art mode to use
          
          [default: normal-ascii]

          Possible values:
          - normal-ascii: Normal ASCII art
          - colored:      Colored ASCII art, the colors are based on the terminal colors

      --output-method <OUTPUT_METHOD>
          [default: stdout]

          Possible values:
          - file:   Save the ascii art to a file
          - stdout: Print the ascii art to the terminal

  -c, --characters <CHARACTERS>
          The character to use for drawing the image (lighter to darker) You can user one character if you uses the color mode
          
          [default: " .,-~!;:=*&%$@#"]

  -s, --scale <SCALE>
          The output scale (1 is the original size)
          
          [default: 4]

  -w, --width <WIDTH>
          Enstablish how much wide is the output images, in columns. Overrides `scale`

  -b, --background <BACKGROUND>
          The background color to use

  -o, --output <OUTPUT>
          The output file to write to (if output_method is file)
          
          [default: ascii_image.txt]

  -h, --help
          Print help information (use `-h` for a summary)

  -V, --version
          Print version information

Examples

aarty -m images/airplane.png

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                        =***:*    
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aarty -m colored images/airplane.png

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aarty -m colored images/airplane.png -s 2

airplane colored scale 2

aarty -c " ~okOK#\$%" images/ok_hand.png

                                        
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aarty -c " ~okOK#\$%" images/ok_hand.png -m colored

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aarty -c " ~okOK#\$%" images/ok_hand.png -m colored --output-method file -o ok_ascii.txt

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Dependencies

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