ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters. Wikipedia
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First you need to fork(make a copy) of this repo to your Github account.
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Clone(download) your fork to your computer
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Set your streams so you can sync your clone with the original repo(get the latest updates)
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Make sure you have Python 3 installed on your machine.
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Set virtual environemts(if you want to) docs
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Install project dependencies, for example with
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Run the example code with the command:
python ascii.py INPUT_FILE OUTPUT_FILE
Original image:
Console: Run this in on your console
python ascii.py dog.jpg output.jpg
Output image:
After zooming the output image. We can see that each pixel represent the characters.
