Oscar Trelles

ASCIICam: Video to Text

Ever wondered how would you look in ASCII Art? no? I didn’t think so… but here it is anyway: a quick video to ASCII conversion experiment I have put together, using BitmapData and a webcam as the video source. Of course it could be easily adapted to use an FLV, but I thought this way it would be more fun.

For now, you need a webcam to play with it, and I think it could be a little bit CPU intensive. On the other hand, I’m not sure if my selection of characters is the best right now: more variety of characters means a better image texture, the trick is to choose characters that will work regardless of their relative position, which is essential in manually generated ASCII Art.

Click here to check it out.