ASCIIfy

What it does

Drop in a photo, load a video, or flip on your webcam — every frame gets rendered as a mosaic of characters. You can tweak density, toggle color vs monochrome, and export your output. Why I built it: Always loved ASCII aesthetics but converting things manually was a pain. Wanted something fast and fun to play with. It's available on Gumroad — link in the first comment. Would love feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas for v2!

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  turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)2024 · collidingscopes.github.io · ▲121

  This tool turns videos into ASCII pixel art. You can use your webcam feed or upload a video, then use the controls to adjust the colors, resolution, text style, etc. Github repo: https://github.com/collidingScopes/ascii It's built with javascript / html canvas. I'll be continuing to work on this, with the goal of improving performance (it can be laggy at high resolutions) and to also allow image input (turn an image into animated ASCII art). Please let me know of any feedback or suggestions!

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  ASCII Drawing BoardOct 2025 · delopsu.com · ▲121

  I've made an ASCII drawing board. You can set any brush, canvas size, export art as a text file. I want to keep it as manual/analog as possible, hence there is no tool for converting image to ASCII. Prompting LLMs to draw ASCII art turned out to be a difficult task . So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board. Wihtout coding agent I wouldn't even try myself. Although it is an interesting task, it would drift me away. Basically it's just a drawing board with endless variations of textures and brushes: when you make large canvas and zoom out you don't see ASCII anymore, but…

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