Tools to convert video files into ASCII art, and make self-contained playback executables
A few tools to convert video and images into ASCII art in an ANSI terminal. These tools support color output using the ANSI 256 color set, as well as the creation of a self-contained playback executable for video converted to text, with compression able to fit 4 minutes of 80 column 15 FPS video onto a single floppy disk!
Check out this video for more information and to see sample output for video to text conversion.
A sample image converted to text and printed to the terminal.
Note: To run these programs, you will need Python 3 installed, alongside NumPy and OpenCV (for image io).
Displaying Images as Text
The python script imageToTextColor.py will print an image file provided as