1 stable release
1.0.0 | Jul 12, 2024 |
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#625 in Text processing
8MB
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Unicode Art
The better ascii art
Examples
Images
uniart mandelbrot.png
uniart mandelbrot.png -m luminance -tbfq
uniart mandelbrot.png -tbf -m double-pixels
uniart mandelbrot.png -tbf -m braille
Each image is a screenshot of a text terminal.
Animations
uniart mandelbrot.gif
uniart mandelbrot.gif -m luminance -tbf
uniart mandelbrot.gif -tbf -m double-pixels
uniart mandelbrot.gif -tbf -m braille
These are real time recordings of the terminal.
Features
- Convert images and gifs to characters on the terminal in one of the following modes:
luminance
: Uses the luminance of the pixel to determine the character.braille
: Uses braille characters to represent the image.pixels
: Uses one color per character to represent the image.double-pixels
: As above, but uses two pixels per character.edges
: Uses edge detection to make edges of objects more visible.shapes
: Selects characters that have a similar shape to the represented area of the image.
- Uses given width, or adjusts to the size of the terminal window.
- Can take a custom palette of characters to use.
- Can display images in color. (256 ansi escape sequences color codes, or 24bit true color in some terminals)
- Can be also used in light themed terminals with brightness inversion.
Dependencies
~5–13MB
~159K SLoC