ASCIICAM: VIDEO TO TEXT

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19 2007 @ 09:49 AM

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.

ASCIICam

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.

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ADAM

FEBRUARY 19 2007 @ 10:05 AM

Hiya, not got my webcam with me at the moment so can't check your demo out, but I updated some old AS2 ascii webcam code to AS3 recently and found the speed increase to be astounding. I was easily able to do full screen ascii with negligable processor hit...

http://www.dustypixels.com/blog/2007/01/19/realtime-webcam-to-ascii-converter-in-flex2as3/

TINK

FEBRUARY 19 2007 @ 11:02 AM

Hey Oscar works well.

My bud adam has had one of these up for a while http://www.dustypixels.com/blog/2007/01/19/realtime-webcam-to-ascii-converter-in-flex2as3/

TINK

FEBRUARY 19 2007 @ 11:03 AM

Ah bugger, that is Adam above me. now i feel like a righ pratt (although thats nothing new ;))

OSCAR TRELLES

FEBRUARY 19 2007 @ 11:18 AM

Yeah, Adam's is nice. Actually, I was thinking about adding brightness and contrast controls to my example, but looking at his experiment I've got a couple of other ideas too.

I made this one in response to a co-worker's question/challenge, so it required speed, not so much finishing ;)

TOPTEN

MAY 10 2007 @ 03:29 AM

too good